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Swing States Project

Debating NC’s Amendment One

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Page Views

What it takes to win the White House

The Observatory

Science, not sex, of breastfeeding

Magazine: Review

The social Web that might have been

Swing States Project

Debating Amendment One in North Carolina

Faced with an opportunity to lead civic discussion and take a stand, some papers fare better than others

By Andria Krewson May 16, 2012 at 03:30 PM

NORTH CAROLINA — Last week, North Carolina voters overwhelmingly passed Amendment One to the state constitution, defining marriage as between... More

The Audit

What’s the right price for ebooks? (updated)

It’s probably not 99 cents

By Ryan Chittum May 16, 2012 at 11:00 AM

Author Chuck Windig, GigaOm's Mathew Ingram, and TechDirt's Mike Masnick all took on the question of ebook pricing recently, arguing... More

Magazine: Currents

How I got that story

RealRural

By The Editors May 16, 2012 at 06:50 AM

In March 2011, Lisa M. Hamilton, a writer and photographer, began a series of road trips around rural California.... More

Language Corner

Logue jam

A catalog of dialogues

By Merrill Perlman May 16, 2012 at 06:50 AM

“Catalogue” can also be spelled “catalog.” “Dialogue” can also be spelled “dialog.” But “monologue” is rarely spelled “monolog.” The Americans... More

The Audit

Audit notes: Commercialization, GM and Facebook, Saverin’s taxes

By Ryan Chittum May 15, 2012 at 11:15 PM

Conor Friedersdorf makes a nice catch on Tom Friedman's Sunday column bemoaning the commercialization of seemingly all aspects of American... More

Campaign Desk

Health costs: Is Mass. the only model?

What about Vermont? (Not to mention Maryland)

By Trudy Lieberman May 15, 2012 at 03:19 PM

We all know Obamacare is Romneycare and Romneycare is Obamacare and that the Bay State has set the standard for... More

The Observatory

Attachment parenting, detached debate

Time’s titillating cover overshadows article’s substance

By Curtis Brainard May 15, 2012 at 02:15 PM

Time touched a nerve this week with its provocative cover photo of 26-year-old Jamie Lynne Grumet and her 3-year-old son... More

Behind the News

Stories I’d like to see

Press-dinner proceeds, cat-and-mouse China reporting, testing the testers

By Steven Brill May 15, 2012 at 08:41 AM

In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More

Magazine: Review

The astroturf Cassandra

Why hacks like Andrew Keen really fear the social Web

By Maureen Tkacik May 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Long before Facebook or Foursquare, men like the late management consultant Martin Jay Levitt were connoisseurs of social networks. At... More

Swing States Project

For TV, campaigns create big winners, (relative) losers

Political ads may not be all “gravy” for local stations—but they’re still an awfully good deal

By Erika Fry May 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM

When Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign last month, the former Pennsylvania senator all but sealed Mitt... More