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AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File |
An interview with Thomas Pickering, the distinguished American diplomat who oversaw the State Department’s Benghazi review board and has found himself a target of Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the excitable partisan who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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AP/Don Ryan |
Having served in Congress for more than three decades—and in the upper chamber since 1996—Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden has established a reputation as one of the Senate’s more serious and diligent members.
Posted on May 16, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza |
Less than four months after Barack Obama’s inauguration, the right-wing propaganda machine is already promoting the only imaginable conclusion to a Democratic administration that dares to achieve a second term: impeachment.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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White House (Archive) |
Not so fast, please: There are a few salient questions that George W. Bush (or at least his library) ought to address before the rehabilitation begins.
Posted on May 2, 2013
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Having directed NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies for most of the past four decades, Dr. James E. Hansen retired this month to devote himself to the scientific activism that has brought both awards and catcalls during his long and distinguished career.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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Shutterstock photo of robbery. |
The gun lobby and its legislative servants are “soft on crime”—although they routinely pretend to be tough on criminals.
Posted on Apr 19, 2013
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Danny Birchall (CC-BY) |
Amid all the suffocating claptrap celebrating Margaret Thatcher in the media, only the British themselves seem able to provide a refreshing hit of brisk reality.
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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Wikimedia Commons / Harald Dettenborn (CC-BY) |
By all accounts, Hillary Rodham Clinton has not yet decided whether to seek the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. But the prospect of her candidacy, combined with her undeniable popularity, is agitating certain commentators so deeply that they simply cannot withhold their bile.
Posted on Apr 4, 2013
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AP/File |
Anthony Lewis, the former New York Times reporter and columnist who died Monday at the age of 86, shaped the American conscience on a broad range of issues, from civil liberties and civil rights to war and diplomacy, for almost 50 years.
Posted on Mar 28, 2013
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Flickr/Fighting For Our Health |
Trumka recently spoke with The National Memo about the sequester’s automatic budget cuts, the danger of cuts to Social Security, the Keystone XL pipeline, immigration reform, President Obama and how to defend labor in an era of attacks on the right to organize.
Posted on Mar 24, 2013
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