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Oh, shut up.
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Backbencher jefe; New Republic staff writer; author, "The Great Divergence." Former Politico, Slate, Wall Street Journal, US News, Washington Monthly, etc.
Thomas E. Ricks is a former military correspondent for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of 11 books, the next being, "Big Money, Small Town," a novel about the oligarchy squashing a small town in the Maine woods.
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