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Unemployment will make or break Democrats

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T here is no doubt that Republicans will pick up seats in Congress- poll numbers and political history make it a certainty-  but there are some things Democrats can do to mitigate their losses. ...

The ups and downs of health care

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The French philosopher Voltaire warned us that the perfect is the enemy of the good, but is the health care legislation passed by Congress so deeply flawed that it can no longer be considered good? In...

What Congress didn’t say

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Reconciliation is a parliamentary procedure established in 1974 as a means of creating federal policies that are related to meeting Congress’ fiscal objectives. The process limits debate to 20 hours a...

Caravaggio or Michelangelo

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Photo: Wikipedia According to a recent New York Times article, art historian Philip Sohm has published a study arguing that Caravaggio has bumped Michelangelo from his position as Italy's greatest ...

When Novelists Sober Up

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In the Summer of 2009, Tom Shone wrote an article for The Intelligent Life on how sobering up has affected some of the Western world's greatest novelists. He discusses great novelists like John Cheeve...

Deconstructing Masterpieces

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In 2009, Tom Shone wrote an article in which he explains the evolution of the term masterpiece and how today it often does not describe an artist's best work. The following is an excerpt: In the popu...

Feminist Criticism of Lit by Female Writers

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On an article entitled "What Are Women FIghting About? Emily Gould discusses why "women are often the cruelest critics of other female writers". Here's an excerpt: So I become, once more, the kind...

Do Jazz & Hip-Hop Mix?

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The world of jazz criticism was thrown into mayhem during the 1960s. Jazz had begun to move into new and unanticipated places. Artists like Ornette Coleman, inspired by Avant-Garde musicians, did away...

The Universality of English

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John McWhorter published an article in World Affairs recently in where he posed some interesting questions: What if English became the only language in the world? Would this result in a cultural loss?...

Nothing but a passing fad

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The tea party movement may play an important role in shaping America’s immediate future, particularly the upcoming mid-term elections, but it must propose real solutions if it intends to be more than a passing fad.
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