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Video: Stephen Colbert on David Koch and PBS
Stephen Colbert’s take on Jane Mayer’s piece in this week’s issue, documenting public television’s self-censorship of a program that it feared might anger one of its largest donors, the billionaire industrialist and conservative political activist David Koch: http://nyr.kr/18ln2Vo Read Mayer’s piece in full here: http://nyr.kr/18R2IMG
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Obama and Morehouse
Matthew McKnight on Obama’s Morehouse speech and the first black President’s responsibilities to African Americans: http://nyr.kr/10Syum5
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When You Shouldn’t Tell the President
Jeffrey Toobin: Should the White House Counsel have told Obama about the IRS investigation? http://nyr.kr/11WrWt1
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The Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Empathy Problem
In this week’s issue, Paul Bloom examines the latest empathy research and its role in policymaking: http://nyr.kr/135ouGr Here, he looks at how attractiveness influences empathy, particularly in the case of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: http://nyr.kr/13p9LX2
Photograph by Robin Young
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Cartoon from the issue by Frank Cotham. For more: http://nyr.kr/11nCWJ4
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"There’s been so much written about changing political demographics since President Obama was reëlected last November that you could be forgiven for believing that we now live in a country called Liberal America.” But “the wheel of history never stops turning, and no majority is permanent."
— In today’s Daily Comment, George Packer writes about changing opinions in America: http://nyr.kr/Z5ceTZ -
This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases dealing with gay marriage: the challenges to California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act. On the Political Scene podcast, Jeffery Toobin and Margaret Talbot talk with Dorothy Wickenden about how the Court might rule in each case and what the decisions could mean for marriage equality. Click-through for more: http://nyr.kr/XlrxwN
(Source: newyorker.com / The New Yorker)
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"Among his many accomplishments, perhaps his most singular has been maintaining power and popularity in a sports-crazed city while displaying a profound, and often comical, ignorance about its sports teams and most popular players."
— Ian Crouch on the greatest feat of Thomas Menino, who has recently announced that he will not be seeking a sixth term as mayor of Boston this fall: http://nyr.kr/10V41GJ -
Peggy Noonan Goes All Krugman on Us→
Hendrik Hertzberg critiques a Peggy Noonan column: “It’s a masterpiece of Aesopian apostasy.” http://nyr.kr/Y4zLZz
