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By Gore Vidal
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By Joe Conason — While the post-election shoving and shuffling on Capitol Hill sounds dull, parochial and petty to the rest of the world, the choices that politicians make among themselves can be telling.
Posted on Nov 16, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — There’s been so much in print about how Daddy 41’s people are back in the saddle, I was terrified when I saw a photo of Dan Quayle among the pack.
Posted on Nov 16, 2006
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By Ellen Goodman — Though Ted Haggard and others find the “sin” of homosexuality repulsive, Americans are slowly becoming more tolerant of themselves and each other.
Posted on Nov 16, 2006
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By Marie Cocco — The Medicare prescription drug program is the single totem that best represents the ugly excesses of the now-defeated Republican-controlled Congress.
Posted on Nov 16, 2006
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Truthdig is sickened by the former football star and actor, whose new book has a working title of “If I Did It, Here’s How It Happened.” For shame, O.J.: If you’re innocent, that title constitutes the apotheosis of poor taste. And if you’re guilty, it shows unbridled malice.
Posted on Nov 15, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — If they know what’s good for them, the Democrats will heed the call of the voters on Thursday and elect Iraq war critic John Murtha as their leader in the House.
Posted on Nov 14, 2006
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By Barry Golson — The editor of ForbesTraveler.com pens a satirical take on U.S.-Mexico border relations, envisioning a scenario in which “Minute Mounties” protect the Canadian border from Americans desperate to fill jobs that our neighbors to the north are too rich to perform.
Posted on Nov 14, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — Having watched election coverage nonstop all week, I sometimes wake up screaming, “Bipartisanship!” and scare myself.
Posted on Nov 14, 2006
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By Marie Cocco — The media have largely ignored the role women played in swinging the election, as well as the unprecedented power they’ll now wield in Congress.
Posted on Nov 14, 2006
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By Jabari Asim — Maryland’s African-American voters had to make a difficult decision on Nov. 7—whether to send Michael Steele, a black Republican, to the Senate, or instead back a party some feel takes them for granted.
Posted on Nov 14, 2006
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By Gore Vidal — In this Truthdig exclusive excerpt from his just-released book, “Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir,” National Book Award-winning author Gore Vidal recounts Depression-era episodes of his life involving his grandfather T.P. Gore, the blind senator from Oklahoma, along with a political, economic and existential awakening that followed young Vidal’s viewing of “The Prince and the Pauper.”
Plus: Watch Vidal read a portion of this chapter
Posted on Nov 13, 2006
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By Paul Cummins — In this excerpt from his new book, “Two Americas, Two Educations,” the co-founder of the trailblazing Crossroads School in Santa Monica, Calif., argues that America contradicts its purported belief in the value of education by egregiously underfunding it.
Posted on Nov 13, 2006
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Images: Wikipedia; composite: Blair Golson
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Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), above, raised the ire of not a few Mississippi residents, including Rep. Charles Pickering (R-Miss.), for telling the N.Y. Times on Nov. 8, “Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?” Who, indeed? Truthdig takes you beneath the headlines.
Posted on Nov 11, 2006
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Truthdig salutes the individuals and organizations that swept the Democrats to victory: the members of the Democratic leadership, and the progressive netroots. Kudos all around.
Posted on Nov 10, 2006
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The political satirist reports on an ingenious plan by the leadership of both parties to rest up for negative campaigning in 2008.
Posted on Nov 10, 2006
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