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Jason Linkins: Ron Paul: Poised For an Upset in Iowa?

Editor, Eat the Press

Ron Paul. Remember him? His basic story, if you've been absorbing the most conventional accounts from the most conventional media, is that Ron Paul doesn't... quite... exist. Paul's the candidate who has consistently gotten ten times the amount of support of the various candidates who get excluded from the debates, without getting much more in the way of press coverage. He consistently outperformed Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum, now has Bachmann and Perry envying his position, and yet, even as he's peaked, the disrespect continues. At the last debate, Paul received only about eleven minutes of time to answer eight questions. But how will Iowa treat him?

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Newt's Tax Plan, and Why His Polls Rise the More Outrageous He Becomes

Robert Reich, 12/13/11

Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, 'Aftershock'

Newt Gingrich has done it again. With his new tax plan he has raised the bar from irresponsibility to recklessness.

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Tech

Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders

Sheryl Sandberg, 12/13/11

Chief Operating Officer, Facebook

Even as people worry about "The End of Men," we have to acknowledge that men still run the world. Our revolution has stalled.

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Tech

Your Airwaves, Your Voice

Sen. John Kerry and Rep. Anna Eshoo, 12/13/11

Hidden in this week's Republican-backed legislation is a provision prohibiting the FCC from encouraging new entrants into the wireless market, thus closing the door to new innovation.

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Impact

Give the Gift of Life

Sarah Brown, 12/13/11

Global Patron, White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood

Worldwide, pregnancy and childbirth remain the biggest killer of women of reproductive age. What's even more scandalous and heartbreaking is that almost all of these deaths can be prevented.

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Politics

The American Dream: The Forgotten Leading Actor

Robert L. Borosage, 12/13/11

President, Institute for America's Future

As any veteran of social movements knows, no major social reforms succeed in Washington without strong union support and mobilization.

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Politics

How to Be a Liberal-Conservative-Socialist-Anarchist

Jedediah Purdy, 12/13/11

Professor, Duke Law School; Author, 'A Tolerable Anarchy'

So much of our politics is insubstantive or irrational, and we often talk about our disagreements in terms of psychology, personality, and taste. Fair enough; but anarchism socialism, liberalism, and conservatism also all deserve to speak to us.

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Culture

If I Were a Middle Aged White Man

Louis Peitzman, 12/13/11

Freelance arts writer

If I were a middle aged white man, I wouldn't write articles called "If I Were a Poor Black Kid" for Forbes. With a title like that, it wouldn't matter what points I was making.

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Politics

Dr. Strange: Newt Gingrich and Conservatism's Insane Idea Industry

Richard (RJ) Eskow, 12/13/11

Consultant, writer and Senior Fellow, Campaign for America's Future

Gingrich's supporters tell us he was born to generate new and creative ideas. He "thinks outside the box." But Newt doesn't think outside the box at all. His box is an ironclad container for ensuring and amplifying oligarchic wealth and power.

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Politics

On Obama, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Not-So-Fierce Urgency of Maybe Next Term

Arianna Huffington, 12/12/11

During the campaign, Obama was fond of quoting Martin Luther King Jr.'s "the fierce urgency of now." But now, according to his 60 Minutes interview, we're supposed to wait for the fierce urgency of two or three more presidents?

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Politics

Mitt Romney's $10,000 Question on Choice

Nancy Keenan, 12/13/11

President, NARAL

Given Romney's swift embrace of extreme anti-choice policies, reporters and voters likely have some questions for him -- even though he decided against attending Huckabee's upcoming forum on abortion.

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Gay Voices

I Told My Boyfriend I Was Born a Boy

Janet Mock, 12/13/11

Writer, speaker, and trans advocate; Staff Editor, People.com

Though many guys I've dated do not and may never know the gender history of the girl they randomly made out with, I have relayed my story to a select few. But there is only one man whom I wanted to tell my story to from the very first night we met.

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Politics

Safe Drinking Water: Giving Life, Health, and Hope

Rep. Earl Blumenauer, 12/13/11

U.S. Representative from Oregon

As America prepares for the holiday season, I hope that Congress will give a gift of life, health and hope by helping people around the world with something that most Americans take for granted: safe drinking water.

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UK Lifestyle

Are You Looking Forward to 2012?

BritChick Paris, 12/13/11

British girl living the fabulous life in Paris society

Let's try this 31 Dec to affirm the New Year, not through wild unrealistic plans but through simple dreams. Let's avoid bringing in the negative baggage of 2011. And if the year 2012 is the end of the world let's make it a truly brilliant one.

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Impact

We Came to Haiti to Celebrate...

Kim Kardashian and Maria Bello, 12/13/11

We came to celebrate the thousands of Haitian women who are working tirelessly to bring economic and social justice to all people in Haiti. So to them we say: we are humbled and moved to have been with you and to tell the world about your grace.

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Politics

'Wealth Defense Industry' Protects 1% From the Rabble and Its Taxes

Dan Froomkin, 12/13/11

Senior Washington Correspondent, Huffington Post

Occupy protesters are putting their bodies on the line day and night -- leaving their homes, living in tents, braving the elements, and being treated as criminals by the police. But the super-rich whose influence they are protesting have others to do their fighting for them.

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Impact

On the End of the War in Iraq

Tammy Duckworth, 12/13/11

Fmr. Asst. Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs

I gave eight months of my life and both my legs to a war I never wanted, and I'd do it all again in a heartbeat because I am proud to serve our country.

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Gay Voices

The High Cost of Political Gay-Bashing

Michelangelo Signorile, 12/13/11

Editor-at-Large, HuffPost Gay Voices

I'm not exactly ready to say we've reached the end of the line for political gay-bashing in presidential election campaigns. But Rick Perry's widely-ridiculed "Strong" ad, in which he attacks the idea of gays serving openly in the military, surely shows we're getting there.

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Impact

It Happened One Christmas

Beth Broderick, 12/13/11

Actress, founding member of MOMENTUM

Today, there are almost no facilities in Los Angeles that can house a homeless woman with her children. I am so grateful to Good Shepherd for answering their need and for taking my call on that dark night so long ago.

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Style

Photography Versus Photoshop

Franca Sozzani, 12/13/11

Editor in chief, Vogue Italia

Whoever says Karlie Kloss' pictures are heavily Photoshopped is wrong. The picture is beautiful and that is all.

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Politics

Looking Back on 30 Years

Norman Lear, 12/13/11

Founder, People for the American Way

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Politics

Obama Must Veto Defense Authorization Bill

Ginny Sloan, 12/13/11

President, The Constitution Project

If members of Congress choose -- for the first time in our nation's history -- to codify a system of indefinite detention without charge and authorize such confinement on the basis of suspicion alone, they will do so with their eyes wide open.

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Politics

Can Newt Stop Himself?

Lincoln Mitchell, 12/13/11

Harriman Institute, Columbia University

Gingrich's appeal, despite what the former Speaker of the House may have persuaded himself is not due to his shiny policy ideas or proven leadership, but rather simply that he is the non-Romney candidate at the moment the music is about to stop.

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Politics

To Gain Workers' Votes, Gingrich Slanders Poor

Rev. Jesse Jackson, 12/13/11

Civil rights activist

What America needs is someone who will challenge the entrenched interests and big money that now so distorts our politics. Gingrich offers a man who profits from those interests, while preying on, not praying for, the weak.

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Comedy

I'm Dreaming of a Newt Christmas

Steve Nelson, 12/13/11

Head of the Calhoun School in Manhattan

'Tis just weeks before Christmas and all through the land, The prospects for Republicans aren't looking so grand.

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World

Chicken Little and the Arab Spring Elections

John Feffer, 12/13/11

Co-director, Foreign Policy In Focus

Citizens went to the polls in Tunisia, Morocco, and Egypt. After Islamist parties won three elections in a row, columnists and pundits in the West threw up their hands in horror.

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