The Independent Rundown, November 29
The day’s essential reads for independents and centrists.
Independent Nation gives you the day’s 5 essential reads for independents and centrists:
1. “Inside the Talks: Fiscal Framework Emerges,” at Politico.
Off-camera, a deal on tax hikes and spending cuts may be slowly coming together.
2. “Can This Party Be Saved?” at Time.
The Republican failure is one of policy.
3. “Welcome to the Conspiracy Carnival,” at The New York Times.
Fact-anemic conspiracies make up the biggest tents in American politics these days.
4. “Deadline Artists: Scandal, Tragedies and Triumphs,” at the New York Journal of Books.
Fish wrapping lives forever. A review of the new volume of newspaper columns co-edited by John Avlon, Jesse Angelo, and Errol Louis.
5. “Revenge of the Reality-Based Community,” at The American Conservative.
The sleep of political reason brings forth conservative monsters.
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John Avlon is senior columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, and the host of Beast TV. He is a CNN contributor regularly appearing on the show Erin Burnett Out Front at 7 p.m. EST. He won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ award for best online column in 2012.
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