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I’m With Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi asks many of the same questions I’ve been posing about President Obama’s re-embrace of some populist measures. I’ve argued before that

Obama’s sudden onset of Populism indicates that he or his team believe that Populism is, you know, kind of Popular

with the implied question of whether Obama’s support of populism rises in election years because he doesn’t regularly have populism in his heart.

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GOP vs. Gingrich

On the one hand, the evidence that

Republican insiders are rising up to cut Newt Gingrich down to size

is testimony to my suspicion that the Republican Party won’t allow Not-Romney to win the Republican nomination.

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Maurice Sendak on The Colbert Report

Was Maurice Sendak’s appearance on the Colbert Report the highlight of the week?

Maurice Sendak, author of the children's book,...

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I remember loving it as a child when authors did not talk down to me. I could handle the nudity in Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen or the gruesomeness of the original Grimm’s Fairy Tales, even if the grown-ups couldn’t.

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