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What Are They Saying About Obama's Victory?
Obama won a second term! And just as with every other point in the election, the nation's pundits are already telling us what it means. Here are all their takes as they come in.
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Man vs. South African Penguins; Scientists Don't Like Jersey Shore's Fake Beaches
Reuters on African penguins, The New York Times on fake beaches, NPR on Norfolk, VA and rising sea levels, The Washington Post on geoengineering, and The Daily Climate on women in climate science.
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Conservatives Rekindle Fear of the New Black Panthers
Pennsylvania, home to the guy who said voter ID laws would help Romney win the state, should not be worried about minorities not voting. It should obviously be more worried about white voters being intimidated by black guards at majority black polling stations, according to conservatives.
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Five Best Tuesday Columns
Ramesh Ponnuru on drones, Michael Gerson on math and politics, Kevin M. Kruse on truth in politics, Randy E. Barnett on the Libertarian Party, and Sasha Issenberg on why we vote.
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Election Fatigue Has Set in at The Daily Show
It's finally Election Day! And last night Jon Stewart checked in on the home stretch on The Daily Show.
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Fewer People Are Wondering If Obama Is a Muslim This Election
Election day is near, and from the looks of Google search trends, people are taking the opportunity to check whether Barack Obama is Muslim, socialist, or a citizen.
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Businesses Need to Get Pessimistic About Climate Change; Shell's Oil Drilling Problems
The Guardian on dire climate change warnings for business, Associated Press on dwindling green jobs, Reuters on oil spill clean-up tech, San Francisco Chronicle on Shell drilling for oil, and Grist on archiving emails.
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Five Best Monday Columns
Aaron B. O'Connell on military-industrial complex, Robert J. Samuelson on campaign disconnect, David Corn on political truth, Steven Greenhut on California's spending problem, and Gordon G. Chang on China's Enrons.
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An Electric Car Is Car of the Year; Malaysia's Big Eco-City Plans
Automobile Magazine on Tesla Model S, The New York Times on wolf-hunting, Bloomberg BNA on local environmental issues, The Guardian on Malaysia's eco-city plans, and Reuters on Chinese environmental protests.
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An Animated Map of Frantic Campaign Traveling
Romney and Obama have really hopped, skipped, and turned all across the country to campaign, as you can see in this fun animated map video of their campaign travels by statistician Jerzy Wieczorek.
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Five Best Friday Columns
Paul Krugman on partisan politics, Charles Krauthammer on ideological ascendancy, Haley Barbour on disaster relief, Thomas K. McCraw on immigrant innovation, and Carl Pope on politics of green.
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Jon Stewart Takes a Look at Swing State Hell
Things are improving in New York, and all things said, conditions could be worse, Jon Stewart mused last on The Daily Show. Just look at what life is like in the Swing State Hell that is Ohio.
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The End of Wall Street's Love Affair with Obama
Wall Street does not donate to Barack Obama like it used to, and this striking month-by-month comparison chart from Center for Responsive Politics shows just how much its fallen out of love with the president since the last election.
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San Francisco's Green Identity Crisis; the Dirty Details of Clean Coal
Los Angeles Times on San Francisco's green identity, Grist on the dirty details of clean coal, Slate on Denmark's bikers, Time on caring for trees, and Reuters on a huge elephant tusk seizure.
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Jon Stewart's Looks at the Downtown-Uptown Hurricane Divide
The Daily Show returned last night, and Jon Stewart looked to his news team to compare Hurricane Sandy damage in lower Manhattan versus upper Manhattan.
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Five Best Thursday Columns
Matt Miller on Sandy's moral instinct, Susan Antilla on the broken brokerage system, E.J. Dionne Jr. on compromise, Xiao Guozhen on Chinese law and advocacy, and Donald Cohen on the minimum wage.
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Joe's Very Weird Uncle Day
Weird Uncle Joe Biden showed up to campaign for Barack Obama in Florida today, and man, was he on top of his weird uncle game. "I'm being a good Biden today," he said.
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Handling the Pollution from Expanding Oil Refineries; How the Axolotl Can Survive
Center for Public Integrity on pollution and oil refineries, The New York Times on the axolotl salamander, BBC on bananas as the new potato, The Guardian on diseased forests, and Nature on agriculture and greenhouse gases.
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Where Sandy Knocked Out the Internet
The internet may seem abstract, but it does actually need hardware—hardware that can be damaged by storms like Sandy. As this chart from internet intelligence group Renesys shows, outages happened across the Northeast but were concentrated in New York City.
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Five Best Wednesday Columns
David Rohde on Sandy and inequality, Yonah Freemark and Lawrence J. Vale on housing aid, David Weigel on glamorizing the flip-flop, Kathleen Parker on the race card, and Ted Galen Carpenter on the Mexican drug war.
