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“The End Of The Russian Fairy Tale”: A Nihilistic Disregard For Human Life
Before there is any further discussion of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, it’s important that one point be made absolutely clear: This plane crash is a result of the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine,...
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“Fighting Bad Science In The Senate”: The Days Of Making A Sport Of Trampling...
The Senate hearing for the Women’s Health Protection Act shows just how important it is for women’s health advocates to push for the facts. The propensity of anti-choice advocates to eulogize false...
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“The Fiscal Fizzle”: An Imaginary Budget And Debt Crisis
For much of the past five years readers of the political and economic news were left in little doubt that budget deficits and rising debt were the most important issue facing America. Serious people...
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“Doomsday Prepper Economics”: The Weird Obsession That’s Ruining The GOP
Call it doomsday prepper economics. For more than five years, many Republicans and conservatives have warned that catastrophe is nigh. Washington’s deficit spending and the Federal Reserve’s excessive...
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“The Follies Of Overreach”: The Limits Of American Power; Judging Obama’s...
When I was young, a mantra among progressives was that America had to stop operating as global policeman. Vietnam was the signal episode of arrogant and ultimately self-defeating American overreach....
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“Meanwhile, Back In The Oval Office”: Why It’s So Idiotic To Complain When...
There are a lot of stupid ways people attack presidents from the other party, but there can’t be that many as stupid as the complaint that he takes too many vacations. Since Obama is now on Martha’s...
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“The Forever Slump”: The Debate Between The ‘Too-Muchers’ And The...
It’s hard to believe, but almost six years have passed since the fall of Lehman Brothers ushered in the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Many people, myself included, would like to move on to...
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“The New Politics Of Foreign Policy”: Steadier, More Sober, More...
Over the last decade, Americans’ views on foreign policy have swung sharply from support for intervention to a profound mistrust of any military engagement overseas. Over the same period, political...
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“The Millionaire’s Club Expands”: The Wealthiest 10 Percent Of Americans Own...
The millionaire’s club isn’t what it used to be. Time was that “being a millionaire” was a mark of unimaginable success. You’d joined the financial elite. People didn’t much discuss whether you arrived...
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“The Heart Of American Exceptionalism”: When The U.N. Committee Against...
As everyone waits to see if the actual torture report will ever be released, the uptick in American police shootings hasn’t gone unnoticed by the international community, either: The U.N. Committee...
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“The Ideology Of Policing”: After Ferguson, Can We Change How American Police...
The story of Michael Brown and Ferguson, Mo., is not over, even if the city is calmer today than it was just after the decision not to try officer Darren Wilson was announced. As we look for lessons...
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“A Lingering Problem With Racism”: Black Men; Beware Of Police Officers
It’s one of the best-known lines of any English-language poet — Robert Burns’ reflection on the upper-class church lady who doesn’t realize there’s a louse crawling around on her bonnet. “O wad some...
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“Are All Terrorists Muslims? It’s Not Even Close”: The Media Simply Does Not...
“Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.” How many times have you heard that one? Sure, we heard Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade say it, but to me, that was simply part of the Fox...
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“Fracturing Democracies”: The Dominant Tendency Now Is toward ‘Disaggregation’
The world’s democracies, perhaps especially our own, face a peculiar set of contradictions that are undermining faith in public endeavor and unraveling old loyalties. There is a decline of trust in...
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“The Same Priorities She’s Emphasizing Now”: What Hillary Said About Paid...
Following Hillary Clinton’s first major campaign speech on Saturday, purveyors of conventional wisdom have assured us again that she is tacking toward the left to deflect her challengers and mollify...
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“From Someone Who Was Raised In Privilege”: Jeb Bush Wants Us To Work More...
Former governor Jeb Bush’s announcement this week that he thinks people should work more hours puts him in direct opposition to the two leading contenders on the Democratic side – both of whom are...
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“Two Leaders, Two Countries, Two International Standings”: Are Republicans...
For many Republicans, there are some basic truths about international perceptions. President Obama, they assume, is not well respected abroad, while Russia’s Vladimir Putin is seen as tough and...
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“American Exceptionalism In A Nutshell”: We Think “Freedom” Is Just Another...
Well, Donald Trump finally said something I agree with 100%: Donald Trump: “We are the only country in the world that has a Second Amendment.” — Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) September 18, 2015 Here’s what...
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“To The Sinners In Congress”: Pope Francis isn’t A Liberal. He’s Something...
Pope Francis is causing quite the stir these days. On Tuesday he will make his first trip to the United States, where he’ll preach the existential urgency of climate change and the moral imperative of...
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“Amnesia Peddled As Blithe Counter-History”: Ben Carson Is Wrong About The...
Wolf Blitzer, the improbably named CNN personality, is no one’s idea of an adroit interviewer. His questions have a certain Dada quality, strings of declarative fragments that seem to have been cut and...
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