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August 18, 2011

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America's Next Great Civil Rights Struggle

“One of the hardiest hopes in the chronic-disease wars has been that of a compression of morbidity—a long life with little illness followed by a brief period of disability and then a quick death. A concept first introduced by James Fries in 1980, it has had the special attraction of providing a persuasively utopian view of the future of medicine. ... But a recent and very careful study by Eileen Crimmins and Hiram Beltran-Sanchez of the University of Southern California has determined that the idea has no empirical support. Most of us will contract one or more chronic diseases later in life and die from them, slowly.”

~Daniel Callahan and Sherwin B. Nuland, "The Quagmire"

TNR on the Republican Primaries

George Romney Gone Bust

The Michigan governor's record doesn't look very presidential.

Improbable Cause

McCain’s 2000 campaign tries to beat Bush's "Michigan firewall."

Being Presidential

Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller, and the 1976 Republican nomination.

Pimp My Ride

On the road with Ron Paul's merry band of misfits and his hooker fan club.

Washington Notes

Herbert Hoover and the 1928 Indiana Primary.

Crying Without Tears

Campaign Journal: Dole and Buchanan in 1996.

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