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'Exchange' You Can't Believe In
The HHS rule for state health markets will mean fewer choices.
 


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THOMAS FLEMING
Thomas Fleming: What Michele Bachmann Should Have Said About Slavery
The Founding Fathers knew that ending this evil was their great unfinished business.
 


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HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR.
James Grant: The Scourge of the Faith-Based Paper Dollar
Jim Grant foresees a new American gold standard despite Wall Street's stake in monetary chaos.
 

 
REVIEW & OUTLOOK


What About the Trust Fund?
A teachable debt-ceiling moment.
 

 
In Luxembourg's Footsteps
Five months later, the U.S. recognizes Libya's opposition.
 

 
Today's Columnist
PEGGY NOONAN
Noonan: This Is No Time for Games
Ronald Reagan wouldn't be playing 'Targeted Catastrophe.'
 

 
JAMES TARANTO
Best of the Web Today: Two Cops in One
Obama strikes a less belligerent tone, pointing toward a modest bargain.
 

 
COMMENTARY


Kyle Wingfield: When Teachers Cheat---And Then Blame the Tests
It's the students who suffer most.
 


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DAVID STROM
David Strom: Minnesotans Shrug Off the Shutdown
The unavailability of beer, cigarettes and fishing licenses seemed to annoy them the most.
 


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Notable & Quotable
Ruy Teixeira writes that President Obama's ability to spur job growth—not his fealty to liberal doctrine—is the only thing most voters care for.
 


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Notable & Quotable
Jonathan Tobin on Roger Clemens and the government's wasteful pursuit of high-profile steroid prosecutions.
 


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ADAM ROSS
Five Best: Cruelty in Fact and Fiction
Adam Ross provides an overview of mankind's capacity for malice through the lens of five books, from novelist J.M. Coetzee's "Disgrace" to Robert Hughes's historical account of Australia's birth.
 


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CHARLOTTE ALLEN
What Love Has Lost
What does it mean to love someone? In a secular age, is despair the only alternative for the godless? Charlotte Allen reviews three new books on the subject of love.
 


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PETER PLAGENS
When the West Coast Went Pop
"L.A. Rising" and "Rebels in Paradise" present the West Coast art of the '60s as a retroactive preview of the art world we have now, says Peter Plagens.
 


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ADAM SAVAGE
Young Men and Fire
Our childhood fascination with a fire is the foundation of all scientific discovery. Adam Savage reviews "The Practical Pyromaniac."
 

 
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