I just now strolled through several pages of conversations about abortion.It seems to me that many are putting the cart before the horse,...
The ACA is now more popular than Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, or the GOP. It is bizarre watching House Republicans persuade themselves...
In which the analytical types get creative [IMG] Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Scientists aren’t usually known for taking to the...
[IMG] The arrival of the “post-truth” political climate came as a shock to many Americans. But to the Christian writer Rachel Held Evans,...
[IMG] The existing health-care system should logically be "Romneycare 2.0", because it is almost a carbon-copy of the system Mitt Romney...
%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NL%20Best%20of%20Patheos%20&utm_content=13377']Original article by Benjamin L. Corey...
The election is over. Trump won. We can stop campaigning now. So now the question for our conservative friends is... What are you going to DO?...
The election is over. We can now stop campaigning for a while, and just observe... Hillary and Barack have left the scene. We can stop obsessing...
Original article by Dan Goodin -- Ars Technica -------------------------------------------- As a candidate, Trump VP castigated Clinton for use...
Original article by Neil Irwin , The Upshot (NYT) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- When Republicans...
"Death to Israel" [IMG] Would you make peace with someone who is calling for your death? Of course not. That simple fact is the reason why peace...
Original article by Kevin Carey, The Upshot (NYT) -------------------------------------------------------------- [IMG]Betsy DeVos, the education...
Original article by Lindsay Maizland in Vox --------------------------------------------- Chinas growing income gap could be bad news for the...
Original article by Abraham Newman and Daniel Nexon, Vox -------------------------------------------------------------- [IMG] A Czech combat...
[IMG] White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is reportedly a reader of neoreactionary political theory. A tour through the pro-authoritarian...
Original article by James Kwak -- The Atlantic As Warren Buffet once said, "There is indeed class-warfare in America... and my class is...
We have already had a pretty good conversation, I think... but it appears that my fundamental message has not gotten through. When one person...
Original article by John Beckett -- Under the Ancient Oaks...
[IMG]I participated in a pretty good conversation a while back, about a chimp who sued to have his/her rights recognized. Among other things, we...
There is, I believe, a political consequence of our modern "knowledge explosion" that has yet to be widely recognized. That lack of recognition...
Hi, folks! Newbie here. I've strolled the site a bit, to try to get a feel for how it runs. It appears to me that an awful lot of original...
I must have joined here at some point in time, because your Cerberus prevented me from registering as a newbie. But I'm damned if I remember...
What qualifies an entity as a "person"? Once the criteria defining personhood are agreed, the personhood (or not) of a particular entity is fairly...
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