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- How Drug Companies Plan to Make a Killing Off of Health Care Reform, by Jonathan Cohn
- The ‘Should We Stay or Should We Go’ Matrix: Where Our Top Opinion-Makers Stand on the Afghanistan Question, by Barron YoungSmith, Ben Bernstein, Noah Kristula-Green, and Julie Sobel
- Seven Reasons Why We Probably Won’t Have a Health Care Bill Before Christmas, by Suzy Khimm
- Which Important Federal Agency Is Being Run by People Who Have Overstayed Their Term by Three Years? by Lydia DePillis
- Scheiber: Why Banks Should Be Worried About the Upcoming Regulation Debate, by Noam Scheiber
- If I Lived in Maine and Were a Republican, I Would SO Run Against Olympia Snowe, by Christopher Orr
- Why the U.S. Census Is Going to Have an Even More Difficult Time Counting Americans Next Year, by Jill Wilson
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