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A bold idea from Thomas Geoghegan.

Tom Philpott summarizes GOP plans to roll back what small gains the food-reform movement has enjoyed.

A tax receipt might not change people's views much. Though informed taxpayers are a good thing regardless.

"Even building bridges to nowhere would create jobs, not destroy them, as the congressman from nowhere knows."

I would have thought that Sister Helen Prejean was enough of a name by
now to stop referring to her as the nun portrayed in that movie.

A parody of the bizarre narratives spun by the "tax cuts are the answer to every question" crowd.

I never thought I'd hear Jack White sing schmaltzy post-Vatican II Catholic church songs.