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For the last three years, we’ve been in the midst of a transatlantic debate about post-economic crisis fiscal policy — broadly speaking it’s been between Keynesianism and austerity, with the US starting with the first and more recently edging toward the second.
Throughout, the UK has been the leading advocate of growth through austerity. And now we have the verdict: the UK economy has officially slid back into recession.
Newt Gingrich will make his withdrawal from the presidential race official next week, but to anyone with a brain it’s been obvious for weeks that his campaign is over. Kaput. Finis.
We’ve put together some data points to demonstrate what his zombie campaign looks like.
What really shocked Jon Stewart in Secret Service prostitution scandal.
Ed. Note: I believe Stewart taped that segment before reports that some of the agents were actually too drunk to sleep with prostitutes in Colombia.
JPL released this photo of that fireball-creating meteor widely reported in the Western United States on Sunday.
President Obama tells Rolling Stone he doesn’t believe Mitt Romney will be able to walk back his “severely conservative” primary rhetoric.
Sahil Kapur’s initial report from this morning’s Supreme Court oral arguments on the constitutionality ofArizona’s immigration law.
There’s no doubt Mitt Romney has had a good couple weeks. He got the hold outs to finally agree that he is the Republican nominee. Now the RNC itself has said the race is over. And he’s had a perceptible tightening in the polls. But his push against “unfairness” he rolled out last night is just weak. Read More