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Trading Spaces, Iraq Edition
 By Anna Badkhen
I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help
 By Eugene Robinson
A Lesson for Republicans
 By E.J. Dionne
Toward a New Washington Consensus
 By David Sirota

Arts & Culture
Chalmers Johnson on Our ‘Managed Democracy’
 By Chalmers Johnson
Sean Penn Talks Politics at Cannes
Geoffrey Wheatcroft on ‘Muqtada’
 By Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Movie Mogul Weinstein Reportedly Pressured Pelosi

Digs
President Jonah, Meet Oliver Cromwell!

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Inside the Data Mine

Dig led by Onnesha Roychoudhuri


Ear to the Ground
* NEW! * UN Envoy Heads to Burma with Urgent Relief Message
* NEW! * Kennedy Recovering From Seizure
Newsroom Carnage Continues at The Washington Post
Burma Death Toll Now at 78,000
U.S. Sergeant Refuses to Serve in ‘Illegal’ War
A Rough Day for Reactionaries

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Huckabee’s Major Misfire
Bill O’Reilly Off the Hook: The Dance Remix
Somebody Get the Man a Jet Ski
DeGeneres: ‘I’m Getting Married!’

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David Sirota is the bestselling author of “Hostile Takeover” (Crown, 2006). He is a senior fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network—both nonpartisan research organizations. His daily blog can be found at http://www.credoaction.com/sirota.


Truthdig Articles

2008

05/15 Toward a New Washington Consensus

05/08 Acknowledging the Race Chasm

05/02 The Plague of Potomac Fever

04/24 Matthews vs. McNulty

04/23 Pennsylvania and the Persistence of the Race Chasm

04/17 Colorado Still Sneers at Labor

04/10 The Long, Sorrowful Ludlow Legacy

04/03 Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

03/27 Is Wright Right About Racism?

03/21 New Crisis, Old Isms

03/13 Remembering What Nixon Learned

03/06 Hope in the Time of NAFTA

02/28 The New Permanent Campaign

02/22 A Trade Transformation

02/15 The Candidate of the Permanent Will

02/07 The Democrats’ Class War

01/31 Rocky Mountain Realities

01/24 The Stimulus Swindle

01/17 Digging in the Right Place

01/10 Stay Classy, Mike Huckabee

2007

12/28 The Path to a National Popular Vote

12/20 Fear, Loathing and the Crisis of Confidence

12/13 When Barbarians Take Hostages

12/06 Flying Coach on a Planetary Scale

11/30 Conservative, or Just Plain Corrupt?

11/22 Was Ross Perot Right?

               

               
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