Editors’ Blog - 2013
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06.18.13 | 7:54 am
Don’t Copernicize Me, Bro!

Politico cofounder lashes out at Nate Silver for trying to prove things with math.

06.18.13 | 7:55 am
How Could This Have Gone Wrong?

A fashion spread featuring models posing as famous women writers … at the moment of each woman’s notorious suicide … gets Vice in hot water.

06.18.13 | 8:50 am
The Future of Advertising

The future of advertising is definitely creating ads like this that are so awesome that people like me are are mind-controlled into posting them in my blog even when the big corporation isn’t paying anything for posting it.

If you’re a Trek fan you have to watch … Read More

06.18.13 | 9:49 am
Nate Silver Responds

Silver: Politico cofounders lack “curiosity for the world outside of the bubble.”

06.18.13 | 11:57 am
Could Change Everything

Don’t look now but medical costs may actually be starting to go down.

06.18.13 | 12:09 pm
Is That How It Works?

Shorter WSJ columnist: Let’s be honest, it takes two to have a sexual assault.

06.18.13 | 1:00 pm
The Day In 100 Seconds

Wondering if the NSA is monitoring America’s phone calls? The agency’s chief supplied an answer, over and over again.

Full-size version.

06.18.13 | 1:12 pm
Issa’s Latest Racket Unravels

House Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA) says he is “deeply disappointed” that Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) decided to release the full unedited interviews from the IRS investigation.

These supplement the bits and pieces selectively leaked to the press by Issa’s staff.

06.18.13 | 1:36 pm
No Help There

House Republicans appear to be coalescing around an attempt to kill immigration reform. But they’re not getting any help from this CBO study, requested by arch-immigration reform foe Sen. Jeff Sessions. It shows that rather than ballooning the deficit the current Senate bill would reduce the deficit by almost $200 billion over the next decade.

06.19.13 | 3:41 am
Not So Much

Our report on why congressional oversight of the intelligence community doesn’t work very well and maybe isn’t supposed to. Fascinating piece.