The New Republic

tnr.com — Editor's Note: After looking at the economic platform of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, this installment of our series on his policy plans examines the details of his health care agenda.

tnr.com — It's been heartening to see a broad response to the disclosure, deep within the magazine's new cover story on the Ohio political landscape, that the FBI is investigating questionable donations by employees of a direct-marketing company in Canton, Ohio to the campaigns of Republicans Josh Mandel, the state treasurer challenging Sen.

tnr.com — I'm a day late to this, but I wanted to be sure to draw attention to an important article by Tom Hamburger and Brady Dennis that ran too far inside Tuesday's Washington Post: looking at the gathering movement to rein in campaign contributions by corporations by coaxing them to disclose more of their political spending.

tnr.com — Barry Goldwater says of Bill Movers, "Every time I see him, I get sick to my stomach and want to throw up." But the former senator is, yet again, either before or behind his times. Bill Moyers's standing as the conscience of America is one of the stipulated facts of our national life.

tnr.com — Any taxonomy of first friends includes a few familiar types. There's the amiable glad-hander destined for the outer Cabinet, like George W. Bush crony Don Evans. There's the scheming, scandal-prone loyalist, like the Clinton hanger-on Harry Thomason, of Travelgate infamy.

tnr.com — New York Times columnist David Brooks, defending Mitt Romney against a new Romney-bashing ad from President Obama's re-election campaign, describes private equity as a "reform movement": Forty years ago, corporate America was bloated, sluggish and losing ground to competitors in and beyond. But then something astonishing happened.

tnr.com — A FEW CHAPTERS into Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, the titular protagonist relaxes on a stretcher between shifts at the chaotic Karachi hospital where she is employed as a nurse. On the wall behind her, a torn poster reads, Bhai, your blood will bring a revolution.

tnr.com — There are two cathedrals in Coventry. The newer one, consecrated on May 25, 1962, stands beside the remains of the older one, which dates from the fourteenth century, a ruin testifying to the bombardment of the Blitz. Three years before the consecration, in one of the earliest ventures in the twinning of towns, Coventry had paired itself with Dresden.

tnr.com — BOSTON--One of the most interesting stories about health care reform in Massachusetts, where I'm on a learning tour this week, is a story that never happened: The backlash against the mandate.

tnr.com — Only the other day, Lena Dunham had her twenty-sixth birthday. I mention that not to play on your guilt about forgetting to send a card. But I do want to note that when she made her feature film Tiny Furniture, she can't have been more than 23.

tnr.com — In further evidence that this city knows what to do with molehills (suggested Trenton-style motto: "what Washington makes, the world re-tweets"), much has already been said and written about Newark superman (and mayor) Cory Booker's unhelpful criticism of Team Obama's attacks on Bain Capital, the private equity firm that made Mitt Romney a quarter-billionaire and taught him "how jobs come and how they go."

tnr.com — Like any Woody Allen fan, I've been waiting my entire adult life to re-enact the Marshall McLuhan scene from "Annie Hall." Today, Mitt Romney and Jonathan Chait finally gave me the excuse I needed. Here's the backstory: On Friday, Romney told a crowd in New Hampshire that he was reading my recent book on Obama and the economy.

tnr.com — The Affordable Care Act is full of compromises-the subsidies aren't as generous as they could be, for example, and there's no public plan. But, for those of us who believe in the law, no compromise may be more threatening to the law's success than its timing.

tnr.com — Lodge 141 of the Fraternal Order of Police is housed, along with 446 jail cells, inside the Mahoning County Justice Center, a forbidding brick and steel hulk at the edge of the frayed downtown of Youngstown, Ohio. It's a humble office, but its proprietors have embellished it with a number of rather pointed political decorations.

tnr.com — Since Lanhee Chen joined the Romney campaign in March last year, his public pronouncements have been liberally seasoned with snark. Tweeting about Newt Gingrich during the first Florida debate, he wrote, "Thanks for explaining why you were forced to resign in disgrace, Mr. Speaker."

tnr.com — Lodge 141 of the Fraternal Order of Police is housed, along with 446 jail cells, inside the Mahoning County Justice Center, a forbidding brick and steel hulk at the edge of the frayed downtown of Youngstown, Ohio. It's a humble office, but its proprietors have embellished it with a number of rather pointed political decorations.

tnr.com — Egyptian presidential candidate Abdel Monem Abouel Fotouh was a leading force in the militant Islamist student movements of the 1970s; one of the Muslim Brotherhood's point men for aiding the mujahideen in Afghanistan during the 1980s; and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Guidance Office for twenty-two years.

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