Let The Kids Play….We interrupt this political blog to bring you a brief basketball update — Argentina: 89, USA: 81. No gold, not even silver. And it’s as it should be. The better team won.

Can we please re-think that selection process now?

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Amy Sullivan is a Chicago-based journalist who has written about religion, politics, and culture as a senior editor for Time, National Journal, and Yahoo. She was an editor at the Washington Monthly from 2004 to 2006.