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Inside the Mitt

Bob Burnett | Posted 04.06.2012

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Bob Burnett

Mitt Romney is the perfect Republican candidate: a straight, religious, white man who is rich and can self-fund his campaign. And Romney shares a common Republican personality defect: he doesn't empathize with average Americans.

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The General Welfare

Anthony Flaccavento | Posted 04.02.2012

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Anthony Flaccavento

How to build an economy and political system that secures this general welfare, now and in the future, is the most critical and challenging question we face.

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Did Economic Populism Win South Carolina for Newt Gingrich?

Asher Smith | Posted 03.23.2012

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Asher Smith

Perhaps Mitt Romney's fumble in South Carolina was not entirely unpredictable. But why, if Romney was not to prevail, was it Newt Gingrich -- and not Rick Santorum -- who benefited?

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Evaluating the Merits of Private Equity

Chris Ladd | Posted 03.21.2012

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Chris Ladd

The fact that Republicans are debating (or almost sort-of debating) the merits of certain business practices is a ground-breaking development all by itself.

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Jason Cherkis

Let The Mud Fly: Read Texas Dems' 500-Page Rick Perry Opposition Book

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 01.19.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Running for the 2008 GOP nomination, John McCain's campaign team pulled together 200 pages of dirt on his 2008 rival Mitt Romney, posted...

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"Bain Capitalism": Mitt's Frankenstein Is a Politically-Created Monster

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 03.14.2012

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Richard (RJ) Eskow

Bain Capital -- and Bain Capitalism -- isn't Mitt's creation. It was sewed together from the corpses of dead ideals and shocked into life in Washington's political laboratories.

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Tomorrow's Info Today: Staying Ahead of the News Cycle

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

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Randall Amster

From now on, I will only get my news from future-based sources, and thus seek to remain ahead of the curve. Outlandish, you say? Impossible? You are obviously so behind the times.

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