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The Atlantic Robert D. Kaplan reflects on the state of Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall http://bit.ly/2GIthq Besides a complete social welfare system, what does the European Union stand for?

about an hour ago
Jeff Mincey
Jeff Mincey
The EU stands for a lower disparity of income between haves and have-nots and for a priority in favor of civic life over the endless consuming of products. It stands for an appreciation of its own history rather than a pathological worship of the new. It stands for more international co-operation than for unilateral empire building in military adventures abroad.

How's that for a start?
39 minutes ago
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The Atlantic Should juvenile offenders receive life sentences? http://bit.ly/3i1ms9

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The Atlantic Why is America so bad at job stimulus? http://bit.ly/2BJHj0 What should we be doing better?

7 hours ago
Brian Andrews
Brian Andrews
We need to become producers......We are for the most part a consumer country,just look at all of the things we use to produce (toys,clothing,steel,cars....and the list goes on).Our corporations have outsourced other tech jobs in the name of profits and bonuses,meanwhile the unemployment rate has hit 10.2% and yet the media and gov't insist that the... Read More economy is improving,only for the wall street big wigs who used our tax money to clear their errors.We need to again start producing our own products and bring back the jobs which were outsourced,our corporations have sold us out and we Americans have become apathetic.
3 hours ago
Pete Angritt
Pete Angritt
There's insightful commentary here. Let failed institutions fail and invest in small businesses and entrepreneurs to replace them. Run a deficit in times of need and pay off the debt while the economy is growing. Anything else is stealing from individual tax payers to subsidize overpaid executives and large scale investors.
32 minutes ago
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The Atlantic Question of the day from the politics channel http://bit.ly/1oxqhG The House passed the health care bill, but does the extremely close (220-215) House vote tell us anything about what's to come in the Senate?

11 hours ago
Michael Markstahler
Michael Markstahler
Scott - Sometimes one begins where one can begin. The one killer for Social Security Roosevelt refused to allow in was an individual State opt out clause. Everything else he was willing to entertain knowing that once in it would never go out. Look how it has expanded since its adoption. The trick is to get something, however imperfect, on the books.
5 hours ago
Ralph Wyman
Ralph Wyman
It strikes me that the party of No in all its talk of freedom is mostly indulging people's freedom from caring one whit about the well-being of their neighbors. It is shameless selfishness masquerading as a political position. Loathsome.
4 hours ago
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The Atlantic Is the information age ruining our ability to listen? http://bit.ly/4mbfxe

Fri at 12:08pm
Barry
Barry
Signal to noise ratio has been shot.
Sat at 2:02am
Ian Williams
Ian Williams
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Sat at 6:39am
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The Atlantic James Fallows considers Fort Hood http://bit.ly/1eDyn6 Are the shootings there meaningless?

Fri at 10:02am
Matt
Matt
Note: apparently, Kim (or someone else) has deleted her comments, which makes my comments/responses disjointed. Oh well. To recap, she brought up 9/11 and then referred to "jihad syndrome" and then ended by implying almost all terrorists are Muslim. Sigh.
Yesterday at 12:55pm
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The Atlantic Question of the day from the politics channel http://bit.ly/1oxqhG Are grassroots conservatives ready to get behind figures of the Republican establishment, or do GOP politicians still need to approach the tea partiers, and their populist energy, with caution?

Fri at 5:39am
Ralph Wyman
Ralph Wyman
Go Michele Bachmann! She'll lead the party to a fabulous renaissance of low taxes, milk, honey, and happiness. Or a total implosion.
Fri at 11:04am
Stephanie Carta
Stephanie Carta
If either party moves so far to the far left or far right, then they doomed to fail in general elections, and it just not healthy to breed civil unrest and disobedience in this country simply because we dis-agreed. Demonizing 'the other' is something that war-torn places like Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine do. Is that what Americans want? Progress means compromise and actual governing, not silly slogans.
Sat at 11:19am
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The Atlantic Is modern art a sham? http://bit.ly/nYCG4

November 5 at 2:07pm
Amitab
Amitab
The elitism and snobbery surrounding art is a sham.
Fri at 7:09am
Monique Johnson
Monique Johnson
Some is. Like everthing else. But it need not be ridiculously priced to be a great piece of work. I buy art that I like. Original pieces that I don't purchase as an ïnvestment. 'That, to me, makes a mockery of art.
Fri at 8:38am
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The Atlantic As the GOP civil war rages http://bit.ly/2929Cu could it tear the party apart?

November 5 at 9:28am
Gil Wilson
Gil Wilson
I'm so happy!!!! A civil war I'd love to watch.
November 5 at 3:19pm
Shawn Eng
Shawn Eng
Now don't mind you me! Y'all best git yer own house in order wit dem DINO blue-dogs in yer yard!
November 5 at 8:52pm
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The Atlantic Question of the day from the politics channel http://bit.ly/2nFc6d If health care reform doesn't pass by the end of the year, will the political will behind it fall apart? What changes for health care if Congress leaves for the holidays without putting a bill on President Obama's desk?

November 5 at 5:50am
Jonathan Geeting
Jonathan Geeting
I'm not really sure what changes about it. I feel like there's a law of diminishing returns on lobbying. What else could they possibly do? Everybody knows what the insurance industry wants, everybody knows what the reform side wants. It's pretty well-documented in the blogosphere where most Senators stand on most of the bill's elements. Most people... Read More following this expect Senate centrists to weasel and waffle on what their real positions are about a hundred more times before this is over. But I don't see why another holiday break would have some kind of special impact.
November 5 at 6:37am
Carolyn
Carolyn
Michael, that's what interns are for.
November 5 at 7:27pm
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The Atlantic Commentators are criticizing the NEA's potential move to fund alternative art http://bit.ly/3tWM9i Is it okay to use taxpayer money to pay for lurid and/or offensive works or art?

November 4 at 12:59pm
Claudia Lynch
Claudia Lynch
Define offensive.
November 5 at 7:46am
Juan
Juan
LOL! That's just it! I guess that in America legal precedent and/or "community standards" and/or "redeeming social value" would be taken into account in a Court of Law. America is so diverse the answer would be "it depends".
November 5 at 8:22am
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The Atlantic Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on Maine's gay-marriage results http://bit.ly/2TnSgK Is it fair to say that over half of the country is prejudiced against gays?

November 4 at 9:53am
Holly
Holly
A lot of people say they are not prejudiced against gays, but they hope their kids don't turn out gay. Why, exactly? If it's because they don't want them to have to deal with discrimination and social stigma, that makes some amount of sense, but I think there is a deeper, gay-people-are-not-normal phobia going on. They see gay marriage as legitimizing this lifestyle they see as alien. I think we have a long way to go before we overcome that.
November 4 at 5:22pm
Susan Peters
Susan Peters
Like Bill Maher said, gays should have every right to be as miserable as the straights!
November 4 at 8:28pm
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The Atlantic Marc Ambinder has 11 ways to think about last night http://bit.ly/39HZwd What do the elections mean?

November 4 at 5:34am
Juan
Juan
@Jean-Paul. You use invective, but argumentation is lacking.
November 5 at 4:56am
Jean-Paul Bondy
Jean-Paul Bondy
@ Juan. Thanks for the heads-up.
November 5 at 12:17pm
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The Atlantic Hollywood heavyweight Barrie Osborne is reportedly producing a film about Mohammed http://tinyurl.com/yksxxkf Even though the prophet will not be shown, is it a good idea?

November 3 at 1:27pm
T.J.
T.J.
The truth has a way of surfacing, and it may as well be sooner than later. I don't understand the necessity to be so clandestine, however, the film can be made in a respectful way that attempts to be factual. Will it cause outrage, honor-killings, and destruction? ... We will see... Islam 'is what it is', and we should all know more about it. Yes, it's a good idea. Enlighten me.
November 4 at 9:28am
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The Atlantic James Fallows ponders a reader's thoughts http://bit.ly/vf8VQ Is the GOP purposely blocking change in order to cultivate disappointment in Obama's "lack of change?"

November 3 at 10:45am
Jill Farrell
Jill Farrell
Did the Dems invent a new use for filibuster to BLOCK Bush's federal judges? Nothing new under the sun.
November 4 at 7:35am
Omar Yacoubi
Omar Yacoubi
Duh

There was a filibuster of a few extremist judges (8 of them), but that pales in comparison to the GOP's petulancy
November 4 at 2:59pm