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After reading Jane Mayer's latest, New Yorker reader Ry Cooder sent her a new song about Willie Horton: nyr.kr/xokokl
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RT @CultureDesk: Hannah Goldfield (@hannahgoldfield), TNY fact-checker, on the art of fact-checking: nyr.kr/wUhDNK
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Jane Mayer digs deeper into Obama's decision to embrace a Super PAC: nyr.kr/Ap0wXT
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Must read: Jane Mayer on Larry McCarthy, creator of the 1988 Willie Horton ad now helping direct the Romney Super PAC: nyr.kr/xRhfW7
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RT @NewYorker: Margaret Talbot on #Prop8: "The narrowness of today’s ruling is telling": nyr.kr/wCI8rY
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New details from WH memos: Citizens United "provides powerful rhetorical opportunity 2 decry influence of corp $ in politics" nyr.kr/yVic5N
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.@RyanLizza on Obama's Super PAC decision and the story behind it: nyr.kr/wzpKj9
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France has discovered Callista Gingrich, @laurenzcollins reports: nyr.kr/xhyxKV
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Why the Prop 8 decision won't work as a Republican wedge issue this year: nyr.kr/x7MbPM
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RT @nxthompson: The one swing voter left: "young, female, secular, and hit hard by recession" @ryanlizza @newyorker nyr.kr/yRoEJ4
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The New Yorker
Jane Mayer: the man behind such famous negative campaign ads as the Willie Horton ad is now going all out for Romney: nyr.kr/x3O8Sb
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RT @SportingScene: Adam Gopnik offers the Jets fan's view of a game between two evils: nyr.kr/zEGrLj
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RT @romenesko: What are the most interesting New Yorker articles of all time? (I said Trillin's "Covering the Cops.") bit.ly/xYQRqz
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It's Sheldon Adelson's election; the rest of us are just spectators: nyr.kr/zpDOfF
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Nicholas Schmidle on the continuing saga of a man sentenced to die, exonerated, then convicted again: nyr.kr/yYPoPt
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.@TNYJohnCassidy on why today's jobs report made it a "Super Friday" for Obama: nyr.kr/yTwGT2