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• The Believer

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  New York Times Magazine | May 2005

  The passion of Rick Santorum.

• Obama, Explained

  by James Fallows + Follow

  The Atlantic | March 2012

  As Barack Obama contends for a second term in office, two conflicting narratives of his presidency have emerged. Is he a skillful political player and policy visionary—a chess master who always sees several moves ahead of his opponents (and of the punditocracy)? Or is he politically clumsy and out of his depth—a pawn overwhelmed by events, at the mercy of a second-rate staff and of the Republicans?

• Susan B. Anthony's Hit List

  by Monica Potts + Follow

  The American Prospect | February 2012

  How a group founded by anti-abortion feminists became a powerful foe of Democratic women.