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Why Is Romney Only Offering Up His 2011 Tax Return

After a painfully wobbly response to a debate question regarding whether he would release his tax returns, Mitt Romney has relented and said he would release his 2011 tax return once it was filed in April. Why should this be considered full disclosure? There could be...

Newts Race Card

It if seemed as though Newt Gingrich — veteran of pitched partisan battles, and no-holds-barred ideological cage matches — had been off his game of late, he came roaring back during the GOP debate in South Carolina. After flip-flopping on his attacks on Mitt Romney's...

Straight Up Racism No Dogwhistle Necessary

James Fallows has some reader follow-ups to an earlier discussion of Newtie's "food stamp president" quip. And they've made me rethink whether or not this is a real dogwhistle. One of his readers says that it wasn't racist in the least, that it was simply a dry,...

Progressive Breakfast - 1/18/2012

Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Newt's Race Card...

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