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By Orville Schell
By Sheldon S. Wolin
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 13, 2013
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Kevin Dooley (CC BY 2.0)
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By William deBuys, TomDispatch —
If you want a taste of the brutal new climate to come, don’t think of Hurricane Katrina or Superstorm Sandy. Look to Phoenix, where if the power goes out, people fry.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a prominent Republican’s endorsement of same-sex marriage and the fight over the looming sequester heats up on Twitter.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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John Scalzi (CC BY 2.0)
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By Zack Kopplin —
We’ve pushed standards, testing and accountability for public schools, so why shouldn’t private institutions receiving taxpayer money have to meet those same requirements?
Posted on Feb 1, 2013
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Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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The Arizona governor has left the state for “official business.” The trouble is, since her location is being kept a secret, no one—save for Brewer and her aides—knows her exact whereabouts.
Posted on Dec 4, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the climate change deal President Obama is quietly putting together behind the scenes and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s latest confrontation.
Posted on Dec 3, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including an update on George H.W. Bush’s condition after his hospitalization and why Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is being sued.
Posted on Nov 29, 2012
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screenshot via NBCNews.com
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The pregnant Arizona woman “hated” President Obama and was upset by last Tuesday’s election result.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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Associated Press
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Kyrsten Sinema will represent the good people of Phoenix in the House after emerging victorious from an election-night squeaker. And thanks to the 36-year-old former state senator, the next Congress will feature its first openly bisexual member, as well as its first lesbian senator and first openly LGBT person of color.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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Flickr/Talk Radio News Service
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In a statement to the court, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords blasted Jan Brewer for her “feckless” leadership on the issue of gun control.
Posted on Nov 8, 2012
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Shepard Smith, the indisputable voice of sanity and reason on Fox News, apologized on Friday after the network showed what appeared to be a suicide live on the air during its afternoon programming.
Posted on Sep 28, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Sep 8, 2012
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AP/J. Scott Applewhite
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Benita Veliz, a young Hispanic from San Antonio, proclaimed her unauthorized status and her support for President Obama in front of millions of television viewers at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday. But her enthusiasm for the incumbent is not universal among the undocumented.
Posted on Sep 6, 2012
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After being ruled competent to stand trial, Jared Lee Loughner pleaded guilty Tuesday to 19 charges stemming from a shooting rampage that left six people dead and a dozen others, including former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, wounded.
Posted on Aug 7, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including another GOP lawmaker goes birther and Jon Stewart mocks the Romney campaign’s latest international gaffe.
Posted on Aug 1, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including an update on the messy voter purge in Florida and a “death panel” revival of sorts.
Posted on Jun 26, 2012
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jun 25, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — By throwing out most of the anti-Latino Arizona immigration law and neutering the rest, the Supreme Court struck a rare blow for fairness and justice.
Posted on Jun 25, 2012
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Photo by The Agency (CC-BY-SA)
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including reaction and nonreaction to the Supreme Court’s decision on the Arizona immigration law; also, Rupert Murdoch takes to Twitter to criticize a presidential candidate.
Posted on Jun 25, 2012
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Photo by S.E.B.
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Arizona’s controversial immigration law is largely no more. The Supreme Court on Monday ruled mostly in favor of the U.S. government when it struck down the bulk of the state’s notorious immigration law.
Posted on Jun 25, 2012
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Photo by The Agency (CC-BY-SA)
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the buzz surrounding Romney’s latest VP candidate, the bill for Sheriff Arpaio’s birther investigation and a look at how much gas might cost around Election Day.
Posted on Jun 22, 2012
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Photo by Gage Skidmore
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A 6-year-old girl suspected of being in the U.S. illegally was arrested by the office of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona on Friday. Ironically, the arrest came just after President Obama announced he would make it easier for the children of undocumented immigrants to stay in this country.
Posted on Jun 18, 2012
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White House Photo by Paul Morse (via Wikimedia Commons)
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Arizona’s special election, the fiscal damage done by George W. Bush’s presidency and the latest on the controversial Florida voter purge.
Posted on Jun 12, 2012
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Photo by Talk Radio News Service
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Gabrielle Giffords on the campaign trail, the latest on Obama’s private sector “gaffe” and why some influential Republicans think the answer to America’s education woes is fewer teachers.
Posted on Jun 11, 2012
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U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill (CC BY 2.0)
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By Todd Miller, TomDispatch —
The U.S.-Mexico border was the “line of scrimmage” and the rest of the world a football field inside the brightly-lit convention hall in Phoenix, where hundreds of salespeople peddling their border-enforcement products and national security wares were scrambling for an edge in the exploding markets of border patrol and social control.
Posted on Jun 7, 2012
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Gage Skidmore
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Controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is escalating his probe into whether Obama was truly born in the United States. Arpaio has sent a deputy from his “Threats Management Unit” and a member of his volunteer posse to Hawaii to investigate the president’s birth certificate.
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Despite claiming he does not believe in the birther conspiracy theory, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has threatened to keep Obama off the state’s general election ballot if he can’t verify the president was born in Hawaii.
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Bill Moyers begins his latest show by saying, “There is no stretch of territory in the world quite like the borderlands between the United States and Mexico. ... ” And he’s right.
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Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law Friday that eliminates Planned Parenthood’s access to taxpayer money that is funneled through the state for non-abortion services, saying that any funds sent to the organization could indirectly be used to pay for abortions.
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AP/Ross D. Franklin
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By Deanne Stillman — Dear Arizona State Legislature: Lately you’ve been taking a lot of criticism for “going too far.” Actually, as a constituent and natural-born U.S. citizen who takes our rights and privileges very seriously, I don’t think you’ve gone far enough.
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Lucas Penati (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Mexican immigration to the United States has slowed after four decades of the largest rush of migrants from a single country in American history and may even be declining, a report by the Pew Hispanic Center says.
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Wikimedia Commons
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Gov. Jan Brewer and the Arizona Legislature performed a biological miracle Thursday when they decided that pregnancy begins at menstruation—not the moment of conception—in a pack of adjustments to abortion regulations that will ban most of the procedures 20 weeks after the start of a woman’s last period.
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ricksantorum.com
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There’s horse-race politics, but then there are also bona fide plot twists in the presidential campaign season, and we’re looking at one of them with the boost conservatives are giving Rick Santorum—yes, he of the sweater vest—as he and the formerly more confident Mitt Romney get ready for Arizona and Michigan primaries late this month.
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After surviving a gunshot to the head, the Arizona representative says she is leaving office to focus on her recovery, but she promises to return.
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Bill Boyarsky complicates the conventional wisdom on Mitt Romney; the Rev. Madison Shockley has a beef with the Catholic Church; a judge wants to ban Mexican-American education in Arizona; Mr. Fish applies his skeptical wit to the political process, and Robert Scheer on Iowa.
Posted on Jan 6, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Bill Boyarsky complicates the conventional wisdom on Mitt Romney; the Rev. Madison Shockley has a beef with the Catholic Church; a judge wants to ban Mexican-American education in Arizona; Mr. Fish applies his skeptical wit to the political process, and Robert Scheer on Iowa.
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U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder
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By William deBuys, TomDispatch —
Consider it a taste of the future: the fire, smoke, drought, dust, and heat that have made life unpleasant, if not dangerous, from Louisiana to Los Angeles.
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AP / Ross D. Franklin
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After a 17-month investigation led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, federal, state and local authorities cracked down on a vast drug-smuggling network in Arizona that officials tied to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, making 76 arrests in three separate raids.
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Michael Saechang (CC-BY-SA)
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The Obama administration is punishing top officials for the failed ATF operation that placed American guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. (more)
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Flickr / DonkeyHotey
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For years, the conservative wing of the Supreme Court has flapped mightily in the face of any attempt to deny American corporations their ability to disenfranchise and dispossess the American public. (more)
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The state of Arizona / az.gov
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An Arizona law allowing the state to build its own security fence along the border with Mexico went into effect Wednesday, and the private donations necessary to fund the project have begun stacking up.
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Phil Roeder (CC-BY)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The United States Supreme Court now sees its central task as comforting the already comfortable and afflicting those already afflicted.
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AP / Todd Goodrich
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In a second major ruling Monday, U.S. Supreme Court justices split along ideological lines to reject an Arizona campaign finance law that offered public funding to candidates unable to raise the enormous sums of money needed to run for political office. (more)
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By Joe Conason — The decline of the Grand Old Party into an angry mob is gaining momentum, with crackpot rage displacing common sense on every major issue from public finance to marriage rights.
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Dan Bennett (CC-BY)
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While five wildfires burn up Arizona, Sen. John McCain has decided now is the perfect time for demagoguery. (more)
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supremecourtus.gov
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What are we to make of Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling, which will make life more difficult for Arizona employers who deliberately hire undocumented workers? The Atlantic’s Andrew Cohen offered his perspective later that day.
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
Posted on Apr 16, 2011
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Flickr / Southerners on New Ground
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All aboard the hate train. Georgia’s Legislature has passed a bill that copies some of the most maligned parts of Arizona’s infamously anti-immigrant SB 1070. The Georgia bill is now on the desk of Gov. Nathan Deal.
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Cows produce milk with the properties of human breast milk, telenovelas turn serious, a new HIV vaccine is set to go into trials and Arizona passes a new race-based law ... this time about abortion. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
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