How about: what's in the deal, and is it a good one?
At least one nuclear proliferation expert says it's an "astonishingly good deal" for the West, that it diminishes the Iran nuclear program to a face-saving minimum, and outlines inspection regimes that are close to ideal.
All of that is part of this detailed analysis--the good and the ugly--in Vox. The New York Times and other paywalled sites quote global security and other experts in praising the deal. The New Yorker covers all the bases.
As for the Republicans, Borowitz sums it up satirically:
“President Obama is hailing this framework as something that could enhance the prospects for peace in the Middle East,” McCain told reporters at the United States Senate. “For those of us who have looked forward to bombing Iran for some time now, that would be a doomsday scenario.”
On another doomsday scenario for Republicans--Obamacare Doomsday, the success of Obamacare that they must deny--a point by point refutation showing how the law is working by Jonathan Chiat. Its interesting because it's not just the numbers, it's the complexities of the insurance system, which was the biggest practical gamble. Yet the law turns out to be amazingly well designed to reform this for-profit system that itself still has no ethical validity.
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