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By Joe Conason — A presidential run by the New York mayor would be a monument to egotism. Even worse, it might prevent the nation from ridding itself of today’s destructive policies.
Posted on Jan 2, 2008
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By Ellen Goodman — Pregnancy is way cool on the big screen these days. Moviemakers seem to be reflecting a cultural tide that has shifted key positions on both the left and the right.
Posted on Jan 2, 2008
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By Marie Cocco — If we seemed doomed to refight the battles from eight years ago, perhaps it’s because Al Gore’s warnings about a Bush presidency turned out to be so prescient.
Posted on Jan 2, 2008
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By Amy Goodman — Benazir Bhutto and her supporters who died with her during the suicide attack Dec. 27 are the latest victims of decades of dangerous U.S. support for Pakistan’s military regime.
Posted on Jan 1, 2008
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By Marie Cocco — Our next leader will have a huge task: to repair the worldwide damage done to the nation’s image and its foreign policy interests over the past seven years. Americans must choose well.
Posted on Jan 1, 2008
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By Eugene Robinson — If you had seen the candidate perform Saturday at the public library in Washington, Iowa, you’d understand how he made all that money as a trial lawyer.
Posted on Jan 1, 2008
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By Bill Boyarsky — As he addressed a room full of members of the Iowa Christian Alliance in the small city of Cedar Falls, the senator demonstrated how hard it is for him to find his way through the tangled forest of Christian right doctrine.
Posted on Jan 1, 2008
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By Robert Scheer — Tom Hanks charms his way through “Charlie Wilson’s War,” playing a corrupt congressman who improbably becomes involved in supporting the Afghan mujahedeen (who later became the Taliban) in their battle against the Soviets, but some glaring omissions were made in the movie’s plot—including a key connection to the volatile situation unfolding in Pakistan in the wake of Benazir Bhutto’s death.
Posted on Jan 1, 2008
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By Scott Ritter — From Hillary Clinton to Mitt Romney, the candidates have no shortage of solutions for the Iraq mess, but their shallow rhetoric reveals an ignorance of the increasingly fractured and disastrous reality.
Posted on Dec 30, 2007
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The Bhutto assassination came as a brutal reminder of the gravity of the decision Iowa’s voters will make Thursday. Its impact may be felt most powerfully by Democrats who have been thinking less about issues than about the candidates’ styles and leadership qualities.
Posted on Dec 28, 2007
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By David Sirota — Now, a handful of states have disproportionate power to determine our national path in presidential elections. But a remedy is available.
Posted on Dec 28, 2007
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By Ellen Goodman — Since this is the list-making time of year, allow me to add a tiny trophy to Al Gore’s very full shelf: the prize for the most elegant speech of 2007.
Posted on Dec 27, 2007
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By Bill Boyarsky — Political reporters are not widely embraced, but in Iowa, they are eagerly welcomed when they show up to cover the state’s unique system of selecting presidential nominees. The reason is simple: The media is a co-conspirator in a con, the Iowa caucuses.
Posted on Dec 26, 2007
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Hope is an overused word and an underrated virtue. We “hope” for all kinds of things, from the trivial to the profound. But hope is both a habit and a discipline. It is an orientation toward the future based on the conviction that we live in an ultimately trustworthy universe.
Posted on Dec 24, 2007
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By Amy Goodman — On Dec. 18, the five commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission met in Washington, D.C., and, by a 3 to 2 vote, passed new regulations that would allow more media consolidation. This, despite the U.S. public’s increasing concern over the nation’s media being controlled by a few giant corporations.
Posted on Dec 24, 2007
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