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Wiretap: What was the shutdown all about, anyway?

Maybe the biggest debate in the post-shutdown Washington world is what the argument was really about. Michael Tomasky looks at the debate over food stamps to find an answer.

Lou Reed’s great American resistance music

Lou Reed died this weekend. He was an American giant in a way that seems the opposite of American giant-ness. No golden boy, he was a sexually ambiguous New York rock-and-roll artist before there was such a thing.