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After three years of griping about slow growth, the GOP’'s Budget Committee chair is suddenly fretting about too much growth.

Eric on altercations with Bill O'Reilly, a chance meeting with The Boss, and the regular alter-reviews. Reed points out the many holes and contradictions in Candidate Romney's foreign policy.

Shouldn't it be obvious that birth control coverage is about women's health, not “religious freedom”?

Eric reviews The Philanderer, Kevin Spacey in Richard III, the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, and some classics finally available on blu ray. Reed casts his critical eye over Washington's latest "fly on the wall" tale.

The Obama administration's alternatives to large-scale military operations are, in some ways, far more drastic and dangerous for US interests around the globe.

Betrayal by the “good guys” for whom we have ended up voting has become the norm.

But Washington won't follow through unless the grassroots insurgency of Wisconsin and Occupy grows.

Obama and America's hundred-year struggle over healthcare reform.

From drop-outs to teachers, dId the president’s State of the Union school reform proposals make any sense?

The swirl of controversy over Jodi Kantor’s biography reflects deep cultural anxieties about the limits we place on women in power.