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Mr. Fish
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By David Halberstam
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By Joe Conason — Precisely on schedule, the usual assortment of right-wing operatives is preparing its expected assault on the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
Posted on Jun 25, 2008
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By Ellen Goodman — Well now, isn’t that a relief. The infamous “pregnancy pact” at Gloucester High School turns out to be an urban legend.
Posted on Jun 25, 2008
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By Marie Cocco — Someday, but apparently not a day that will come before November’s election, we might at last have a sober public discussion about terrorism, the attacks of 9/11 and the so-called war on terrorism that has been waged since 2001.
Posted on Jun 25, 2008
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By Amy Goodman — The world lost one of its great comedians this week with the death at age 71 of George Carlin. Carlin had a career as a stand-up comic that spanned a half-century, in which he continually broke new ground, targeting those in power with his wit and genius.
Posted on Jun 25, 2008
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AP photo / Mark Farmer
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By Robert Scheer — Remember Curtis LeMay, the Air Force general played to chilling effect by Sterling Hayden in the 1964 movie “Dr. Strangelove”? If you’re too young for that reference, you probably don’t recall when the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) dominated our military posture toward our Soviet enemy.
Posted on Jun 24, 2008
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AP photo / Marcio Jose Sanchez
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By Bill Boyarsky — Watching the couples in line for licenses in Beverly Hills on the first day of gay marriage in California, I was struck by how the scene was so commonplace, even boring—just a bunch of men and women waiting their turn at a nondescript government office.
Posted on Jun 23, 2008
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By Eugene Robinson — The question isn’t whether race will be an issue in the general election campaign between Obama and McCain. Race is already an issue, even if largely confined to the shadow world of implication and coded language.
Posted on Jun 23, 2008
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By Marie Cocco — There’s nothing like the Saudi version of straight talk to put in perspective the tongue-twisting of American politicians.
Posted on Jun 23, 2008
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By E.J. Dionne — Barack Obama’s decision to forgo public funds will bring joy to opponents of campaign finance reform. But to say that Obama has killed public financing is to miss the point.
Posted on Jun 23, 2008
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AP photo / Charles Dharapak, file
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By Chris Hedges — Washington has become Versailles. We are ruled, entertained and informed by courtiers.
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Satire by Andy Borowitz —
Republican presidential nominee John McCain officially kicked off his general election campaign today, promising to bring his race for the White House to “all 13 colonies.”
Posted on Jun 22, 2008
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By David Sirota — In our us-versus-them culture, every political campaign is a battle to define who exactly the “us” and “them” are. At their most effective, Democrats parry by defining the “us” as the majority of working people, and the “them” as the tiny group of plutocrats who control the country.
Posted on Jun 19, 2008
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By Eugene Robinson — I, for one, am relieved that Tiger Woods decided to devote his unimaginable focus and determination to golfing excellence and not to, say, world conquest. We’d all be living in Tigerland by now.
Posted on Jun 19, 2008
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By E.J. Dionne — The race for electoral votes could be so close in November that small states may well pick the next president.
Posted on Jun 19, 2008
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On Aug. 2, 2007, Chauncey Bailey was murdered in Oakland, Calif., while investigating Your Black Muslim Bakery. A secret police video unearthed by the Center for Investigative Reporting captures the remarkable scene of three key figures in the case discussing the murder.
Posted on Jun 19, 2008
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AP photo / Brennan Linsley
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By Stanley Kutler — John McCain and Barack Obama’s differences over the Supreme Court’s recent Guantanamo decision speak volumes about the two candidates and their competing visions for America.
Posted on Jun 19, 2008
41 COMMENTS
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By Joe Conason — Once upon a time, there was a fiscally and socially responsible senator named John McCain.
Posted on Jun 18, 2008
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By Ellen Goodman — It all began with a case in France, but the uproar has resonance in the United States too.
Posted on Jun 18, 2008
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By Marie Cocco — It is inevitable that at some point in the presidential campaign the Iraq debate will turn from recriminations over how did we manage to get in to the question of how do we reasonably manage to get out.
Posted on Jun 18, 2008
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By Amy Goodman — While the TV meteorologists document “extreme weather” with their increasingly sophisticated toolbox, from Doppler radar to 3-D animated maps, the two words rarely uttered are its cause: global warming.
Posted on Jun 18, 2008
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AP photo / Carolyn Kaster, file
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By Robert Scheer — Why not Hillary? Not my first choice—Al Gore is—but I find all of the pro-and-con debate about Hillary Rodham Clinton to be beside the point. She is, as Barack Obama said, likable enough, and the Dems are not likely to pick anyone better.
Posted on Jun 17, 2008
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Greenpeace / Pedro Armestre and Mario Gómez
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By Vladimir Keilis-Borok and Michael D. Intriligator —
Despite its catastrophic outcome, the Manhattan Project can provide a useful model of how we might now mobilize science to address the major global dangers we now face—but overcoming these threats will require innovative research and international cooperation among scientists focused on the common good.
Posted on Jun 17, 2008
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By Marie Cocco — The forceful language of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s decision in the case granting detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp the right to contest their confinement in federal court is the voice of a Supreme Court majority that is fed up.
Posted on Jun 16, 2008
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By Eugene Robinson — He knew he was a big deal—he had a healthy ego and an accurate sense of his accomplishments. But I’m confident that he would be stunned at the magnitude of the reaction to his death, especially among people who never met him.
Posted on Jun 16, 2008
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By E.J. Dionne — It would be unfortunate if Obama’s words were read only as an attempt to win white votes. It actually matters that a presidential candidate is taking the costs of fatherlessness seriously.
Posted on Jun 16, 2008
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Who Is Responsible for U.S. Russia Policy?
