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Think Progress has a new blog, Wonk Room. For those of you who can’t get enough of the boring minutae behind policy positions, this site is for you. Here’s their mission statement:

Today, Think Progress is launching a sister blog — The Wonk Room. To address the need for substantive dialogue and information, The Wonk Room is intended to be a rapid-response policy blog as well as a resource for in-depth policy analysis on four core issue areas: health care, economic mobility, national security, and climate change.
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Another great piece over at CJR. This one concerns the radical changes the credit cared industry has undergone in the last thirty years. Here’s what shocked me most:

What’s more, as Harvard’s Elizabeth Warren documents, struggling borrowers have become the industry’s bread and butter. More than 75 percent of credit-card profits come from people who make minimum monthly payments. It is not too much to say that creating more such strugglers has now become a common industry goal.
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So President Bush is shooting off his mouth again, falsely stating that Iran has stated their intent to acquire nuclear weapons. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to those of us used to hearing this administration’s falsehoods, but it did seem like a good reason to revisit a certain missed opportunity, which represents one of the great failures of the last seven years: the White House’s failure to engage Iran in diplomatic talks in the aftermath of 9/11. Coincidentally, the Columbia Journalism Review took on this very story in their most recent issue, and by their account the failure was two-fold. One failure on the part of the administration to engage the Iranians, and the other failure by the media’s lack of curiosity about the story.
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Perhaps Jack D. Ripper, the paranoid general from Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove wasn’t so crazy after all. It looks like our society is so medicated that the medications we’re failing to absorb into our bodies are actually making it back into our drinking water. So, in addition to your little menagerie of pills, you’re also taking a dozen other drugs you’re unaware of. And our filtration systems are not equipped to remove them. It’s hard to say how dangerous this issue ultimately is.
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