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Maddow Blog | Why some Georgia Republicans are removing Coke from their offices MSNBC 8 hrs ago Steve Benen Georgia House Speaker David Ralston (R) told local reporters last week that he'd cracked open a Pepsi at a closed-door caucus meeting. The Republican said it was "not that bad, actually," before adding, "I drank it 'til it got warm." At first blush, this probably doesn't seem especially notable, except the geography matters: in Atlanta, home to Coca-Cola, politicians don't generally go around bragging about the beverage giant's principal rival. But for some in the GOP,...

The first week of March, the Biden administration rolled out a speech by Antony Blinken and an interim national security strategy. Those documents overlap significantly with each other and with a report led by Jake Sullivan, now Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor, when he was at the Carnegie Endowment last year. Any number of authors have shared the 35 things they want Biden to do in his first week and specific solutions to numerous foreign and domestic policy problems, including would-be George Kennans penning their own long telegrams. None seem to have read the administration’s docum...

Let's talk about the grand Slate Star Codex brouhaha. A lot of people have already written about this. Here is the original New Yorker essay from last June is probably the best “neutral” piece that has been written yet; If you do not know anything about Slate Star Codex or why so many people are writing about it now, start there. Sebastian Benthall's commentary is also a very good middle ground analysis.[4] I am sure there has been a great deal of debate on twitter as well. I have not read it and thus cannot link to it: I unfollowed everyone on Twitter except a handful of newspapers an...

We're only seven days into the new year and we're off to a bumpy start. But as chaos rages through the capitol, the stock market and other signs of economic growth continue.

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