Is the Arctic ice pack still shrinking? Experts say yes, but four trendless years tell us little.
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We Need To Define Poverty Before We Measure It

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How can we measure poverty, let alone reduce it, until we agree on what it is?
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The President’s Plan Of Inaction

The president does not actually plan to raise taxes on the wealthy, which he could do with ease. He merely plans to talk about it.
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Gov. Rick Perry and his fellow conservatives are pro-choice? You betcha, at least when it comes to Gardasil.
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All together now: “There Will Never Be Another Lehman.”
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Despite much hoopla, a Republican upset in New York neither changed the balance of power nor told us anything we did not already know.
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If unit-pricing laws applied to the American Jobs Act, at least we’d know what the president wants to sell us for $447 billion.
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Lacking context and sometimes lacking truth, anecdotes are a poor substitute for analysis.
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Obama has his “Nixon to China” moment, taking the Social Security debate to a place George W. Bush only dreamed of going.
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It was just a birthday party, but our Hogwarts adventure provided some much-needed magic in the days after 9/11.
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