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Cartoons of the Week
May 19–25, 2012
Facebook face-plants, plus other editorial cartoons from the week. -
Historic TIME Letters
Elections
Negative advertising can raise legitimate questions about candidates and are actually good for democracy
A shift in thinking means entire regions are less prone to such tribalism
The past suggests candidates who survive tough primaries do well in the general election
There shouldn’t be a religious shroud thrown over legitimate questions about the public record
The Republican strategist and Democratic pollster in their biweekly face-off about Election 2012
The Republican strategist and Democratic pollster in their biweekly face-off about Election 2012
We’ve made a sacrament of freedom of expression, no matter how heinous. But letting hate speech thrive leads to innocent dead children like Trayvon Martin
The Republican strategist and Democratic pollster in their bi-weekly faceoff about Election 2012
Why the President risks shirking his leadership responsibilities by not responding to Republican attacks
Why the conservative Catholic’s attack on Obama’s ‘theology’ hurts Santorum more than it hurts the President
Can the nominative GOP candidate’s “not concerned about the very poor” gaffe open the door to more substantive antipoverty initiatives?
The Republican strategist and Democratic pollster in their bi-weekly faceoff about Election 2012
Mitt Romney’s advance toward the Republican presidential nomination has provoked a lively conversation about what it means to be a conservative in America today. TIME asked a number of right-leaning thinkers to answer one of three questions to help define both their ideology and their challenges for the future
Why don’t the GOP candidates want us to go to college or read newspapers?
It’s true that Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter
