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AP/Carolyn Kaster |
This isn’t just a choice of philosophies, but the long-awaited showdown between post-FDR Democrats and post-Reagan Revolutionaries.
Posted on Sep 11, 2012
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shawncampbell (CC-BY) |
If social networks helped mobilize Egyptians to confront Hosni Mubarak’s tanks and men, shouldn’t they also be able to take on a PAC, even one as powerful as that belonging to the National Rifle Association?
Posted on Aug 4, 2012
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AP / Gene J. Puskar |
Unfortunately, most people will insist they were the ones insisting this was a witch hunt all along, and believe it.
Posted on Jan 25, 2012
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AP / Matt Rourke |
These days you don’t get due process of the law until long after you have gotten due process of us ... and the “us” isn’t our rational side, but our bloodthirsty one, as presented by media.
Posted on Nov 10, 2011
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Illustration by Peter Z. Scheer |
For the last 32 years, I had been “Mark Heisler of the Los Angeles Times.” Before that, “Mark Heisler of the Philadelphia Bulletin” or “Mark Heisler of Somewhere” since June 1, 1967, when Gannett hired me at $125 a week. Suddenly, I was just “Mark Heisler.” Who in the hell was Mark Heisler?
Posted on Aug 19, 2011
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AP / Mary Altaffer |
If bad times bring out the best in ordinary people, sports labor brings out the worst in the privileged lives of owners and players.
Posted on Jul 17, 2011
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AP / David J. Phillip |
Let’s put it this way: If the NFL was in danger of flying too close to the sun, like Icarus whose wax wings melted, Commissioner Roger Goodell would have the orb repositioned beforehand.
Posted on Apr 5, 2011
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AP / Mike Roemer |
In an age challenged by separating real life from reality programming or the absurdly heightened reality that comes from merely being on TV, no one seems to want to err on the side of compassion.
Posted on Jan 31, 2011
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AP / Charlie Litchfield |
The nation is dividing into ever-more-irreconcilable niches—like fans of competing teams, rather than members of a greater whole with shared purpose.
Posted on Nov 12, 2010
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AP / Seth Wenig |
If 24 percent of respondents ages 14-17 tell an Associated Press-MTV poll they’ve done naked sexting, you can imagine the implications for professional athletes.
Posted on Oct 27, 2010
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