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Tag: Clinton

Reports: Clint, Rick and the Limits of Pessimism

Reports: Obama’s Faux Populism Sounds Like Bill Clinton

Reports: Tax Day: Will Romney Make April Fools of Republicans?

Ear to the Ground: White House Restores Diplomatic Relations With Burma

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s New Chief of Staff Hails From Wall Street

Reports: 10 American ABCs We May Soon Forget

Reports: Did Reagan Raise Taxes? Let GOP Candidates Answer

Reports: Iran: A Dangerous Game

Reports: Obama Abroad: Democratic Realism

Reports: Government-Sponsored Sinner

Reports: New ‘Mature’ Newt Is Just Same Old Gingrich

A/V Booth: The Data Behind the Occupy Movement

Reports: Truthdigger of the Week: Robert Reich

A/V Booth: Robert Reich and Robert Scheer at Occupy L.A. Teach-In

Reports: California Refuses to Accept Obama’s Banking Sellout

Reports: The War Against the Poor

Reports: Too Big to Jail

Reports: The Arab Spring Gets Messy, and Even Messier for the U.S.

Reports: Let Them Eat Keller

Ear to the Ground: Nine Wall Street Big Shots Who Cashed In on the Crisis

Reports: The Men We Trusted to Lead Us

Reports: The Racial Divide Is There and Waiting

Reports: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace

Ear to the Ground: Health Care Act Wins a Battle on Its Way to the Supreme Court

Reports: Libya: Here We Go Again

Reports: Republicans Put Wars Ahead of People

Reports: Obama Can’t Win for Winning

Reports: Amnesty for the Indefensible

Reports: The New Old Obama

Reports: The Wrong Problem ‘Solved’

Reports: The Recovery Is Dead, Long Live the Recovery

Reports: The Money Melodrama in Washington

Reports: Sorry Elizabeth, Wall Street Said No

Ear to the Ground: Dan Savage Calls Obama’s DOMA Announcement ‘Very Heartening’

Reports: Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Eat Humble Pie

Reports: Democracy Building Is Back in Fashion

Ear to the Ground: The Way Away From a Second Term

Ear to the Ground: Geithner Denies Signaling His Departure

Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Throw More Money at Central America’s Drug War

Ear to the Ground: Jon Stewart Fails PolitiFact’s ‘Truth-O-Meter’

Reports: No Justice in Kafka’s America

Reports: Politicians Are Different From You and Me

Reports: The Sky Really Is Falling

Reports: Our Imagination Deficit

Reports: Whose War on Terror?

Reports: One Lawman With the Guts to Go After Wall Street

Reports: The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic

Arts and Culture: Coming of Rage in Neverland

Ear to the Ground: U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement Spells Continued Job Loss, Study Predicts

Reports: Cracking the 2012 Code

Reports: Needed: A Better Ruling Class

Reports: At Last: A President, Not a Ref

A/V Booth: Your Handy Guide to Government Shutdowns

Reports: Truth About a False Choice

A/V Booth: Obama Addresses His Third Muslim War

Reports: The Collapse of Globalization

Reports: A Mission Wrapped in Confusion

Reports: Those Useful Tyrants

Ear to the Ground: Warren Christopher Dies at 85

Reports: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand

Ear to the Ground: Libyan Rebels Chased From Eastern Town

Reports: Don’t Ice Out Public Media

Reports: Western Intervention in Libya Should Not Fly

Reports: Obama Has 11 Options in Libya, None Ideal

Reports: The Mayor Rahm Mystery

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Warns Taliban

Arts and Culture: How the Democrats Killed Roosevelt’s Dream of the Affordable Home

Reports: Obama and the Failure of the Deficit Hawks

Reports: How the U.S. Should Respond to the New Arab World

Reports: Reagan’s Democrats

Reports: Obama to Resort to Communicating With Mubarak in Caps

Reports: With Democracy or Against It—There’s No In Between

Reports: American-Israeli Policy Tested by Arab Uprisings

Reports: Saad’s Revolution

Reports: Push Has Now Come to Shove

Reports: Can Obama Make Sense of Government?

Reports: Cow Most Sacred: Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable

Reports: How Obama Can Define Moderation

Reports: Obama Pulls a Clinton

Reports: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Democracy?

Reports: The GOP Is Holding the Economy Hostage, and It’s Time to Call Its Bluff

Reports: ‘The Comeback Kid’ and the Kids Who Won’t

Ear to the Ground: Americans Admire Glenn Beck More Than the Dalai Lama

Ear to the Ground: Obama Makes DADT Repeal Official

Reports: Foreign Policy Review Suggests a Losing Effort

Reports: Good Business, for CEOs and Commoners Alike

Reports: Weeper of the House

Reports: The Specter Haunting Obama

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Trotted Out to Back Tax Deal

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama in the Middle

Reports: Obama Speaks Ill of His Allies

Reports: U.S. Orders Diplomats to Stop Telling Truth

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks Outs U.S. Diplomats’ Saucy Secrets

Reports: Fail and Grow Rich on Wall Street

Reports: Look Who’s the Decider Now

Reports: La Vie en Denial

Reports: Obama’s Royal Passage to Asia

Reports: More Than a Failure to Communicate

Ear to the Ground: Bill Clinton Urged the Democrat to Drop Out of Florida’s Senate Race

Reports: The World Liberal Opportunists Made

Reports: Don’t Man Up, Grow Up

Reports: ‘Crazy Carl’ and the Limits of Anger

Reports: Karzai to Take His Talents to Minneapolis

Ear to the Ground: White House Categorically Denies Biden-Clinton Swap

Reports: Lies of the Tea Party

Reports: Hillary Clinton Celebrates Kissinger While White House Repeats His Mistakes

Reports: Return of the ‘Contract With America’

Reports: The Party of Nonsense

Arts and Culture: Is It Lady Who’s Gaga or the Senate?

Reports: So Long, Summers

Ear to the Ground: Clinton: Obama ‘Getting His Groove Back’

Arts and Culture: Video Games Are Good for Your Brain

Reports: After Summers Comes the Fall

Reports: A Myth About Job Creation

Arts and Culture: ‘The Great American Stickup’: How Wall Street Occupied Washington

Ear to the Ground: Mideast Peace Talks Take One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Ear to the Ground: Mexico May Look a Little Colombian

Ear to the Ground: Israel and Palestine Talks, Take 154*

Reports: Shorting Economists: The ‘Experts’ Keep Getting it Wrong

Reports: The Rubin Con Goes On

Ear to the Ground: Lobbying Is About Getting Nothing Done

Reports: Give the First Lady a Break

Reports: Live Chat: Robert Scheer on Clinton Nostalgia

Reports: Why Did Obama Fire Dan Choi?

Reports: The End of the Fox News Era?

Reports: What Is the Point of All This Spying?

Ear to the Ground: Bureaucrats Rub Salt in Iroquois Wounds

Reports: There’s Just No Pleasing Some Robber Barons

Reports: Are Low Taxes Exacerbating the Recession?

Ear to the Ground: Federal Judge Finds Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional

Reports: Save the Trees, Save the Planet

Reports: 5 Million Iraqis Killed, Maimed, Tortured, Displaced—Think That Bothers War Boosters?

Ear to the Ground: 11 Revelations From Rolling Stone’s McChrystal Profile

Ear to the Ground: McChrystal Apologizes for Scandalous Magazine Profile (Updates)

Ear to the Ground: Justice Dept. to Challenge Arizona Law

Reports: Spend Now, Save Later

Reports: Stealth Superpower: How Turkey Is Chasing China in Bid to Become the Next Big Thing

Ear to the Ground: Sarah Palin: Competent Manager

Reports: A Warning From Noam Chomsky on the Threat of Elites

Ear to the Ground: Honduras Casts Shadow Over OAS Meeting

Reports: Live Chat: ‘Treat Palestinians Like Jews’

Reports: Not a Job for Angry Daddy

Reports: Israel From 10,000 Feet

Reports: Live Chat: Robert Scheer on Rand Paul and Social Justice

Ear to the Ground: N. Korea Severs Ties, Orders Preparations for War

Reports: Family Values and Glass Houses

Reports: Laying Bare the Myth of ‘The Left’

Reports: Live Chat: Robert Scheer on Rand Paul

Reports: Political Preschool

Ear to the Ground: Team Obama Handles Karzai With Kid Gloves

Reports: Obama’s Feminist Touch

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court: Elena Kagan Gets Obama’s Nod (Update: Video)

Reports: Will We Keep Hating the Government?

Reports: The Unintended Consequences of Good Government

Reports: No One Cares

Reports: The NATO Nuisance

Reports: Clinton’s Contrition

Reports: Live Chat: Robert Scheer on Goldman Sachs

Ear to the Ground: Earth Day Edition

Reports: The World Prefers Obama’s America

Reports: 4.5 Steps to Building a Better Filibuster

Reports: Live Chat: Robert Scheer on the Financial Crisis

Ear to the Ground: Pick a Number Between One and Six

Reports: Live Chat: Robert Scheer on Nuclear Weapons

Cartoons: Magic Mushrooms

Reports: Obama’s Base Problem

Reports: Democracy and Domestic Violence

Reports: Greece Isn’t Europe’s Only Problem

Ear to the Ground: A Plague in Time for Passover

Reports: Take Two Doses of Caution and Call Me in 2014

Cartoons: Madame Secretary

Reports: Tea Party Bigotry Can’t Stop History

Reports: The Truth About American and Israeli Interests Comes Out

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Peace Negotiator Cancels Trip Over Tensions With Israel

A/V Booth: Axe Has Choice Words for Israel

Reports: Chief Whiner

Reports: The System Works, Obama’s Approach Doesn’t

Reports: A Perturbing Argument on ‘Don’t Ask’

Reports: No Banker Left Behind

Reports: Calling Dr. Clinton

Ear to the Ground: Bill Clinton Hospitalized for Heart Problem

Reports: Wall Street Wants a Refund

Reports: Haiti, Forgive Us

Reports: Finish Health Care or Go Home

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Puts Bill Clinton in Charge of Haiti Aid

Reports: Zinn Is Dead—Long Live ‘Zinn’

Reports: Hope in the Deep Freeze

Ear to the Ground: China Defends Its Great Firewall

Reports: No Obama Obituaries, Please

Reports: Three Nagging Questions About Barack Obama

Reports: Tè Tremblé—The Haitian Earth Trembled

Reports: Making the Case for Gay Marriage

Reports: Sweat Time for Hill Democrats

Reports: From Coup-Lite to Truth-Lite: 10 Ways the U.S. Fought Democracy in Honduras

Reports: Mrs. Robinson Scores One for Gender Equality in a Bad Way

Reports: Presidential Posturing Isn’t Getting the U.S. Anywhere

Reports: Obama’s Alternate Universe

Reports: The Byron Dorgan Thunderclap

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: Chicks With Lit Edition

Reports: Why 2010 Doesn’t Have to Be 1994

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