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By Abraham H. Foxman
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Nate Silver is seen by conservatives as a threat to Republicans this election. It’s not simply because Silver, the statistician behind the New York Times-hosted FiveThirtyEight blog, predicts that President Obama will win the election. Rather, it’s also because Silver is one of the most accurate forecasters out there.
Posted on Nov 1, 2012
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By Bill Blum — The idealistic left might be willing to gamble away the judiciary, but the right never will.
Posted on Oct 31, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — If conservatism were winning, does anyone doubt that Romney would be running as a conservative? Yet unlike Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, Romney is offering an echo, not a choice. His strategy at the end is to try to sneak into the White House on a chorus of me-too’s.
Posted on Oct 25, 2012
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By Bill Blum — The Supreme Court might force defenders of affirmative action to adopt less conventional but equally effective means of promoting diversity on college campuses.
Posted on Oct 18, 2012
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By Peter Z. Scheer — There is no single issue more frustrating to the cause of progress than the relative struggle the left has organizing voters and getting them to the polls.
Posted on Oct 16, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Some have written that Biden was too hot and overreacted to Obama’s disengagement. But this misreads the net impact of the debate.
Posted on Oct 14, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Sen. Sherrod Brown’s uncompromising advocacy on behalf of workers, toughness on trade, and progressive policies on a broad range of other issues have allowed him to build a formidable organization across Ohio, and a large cadre of small donors.
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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By William Pfaff — It is no surprise to find a businessman who is clueless with respect to America’s international relations, but when a businessman is running for the American presidency, you would expect an effort to read and learn.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There are forces working to make the campaign about something more than a suffocating battle to influence tiny slivers of the electorate.
Posted on Oct 7, 2012
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By William Pfaff — The West Europeans are contemplating handing their independent arms and aerospace companies over to a conglomerate that would bestow on the United States an effective veto over the greater part of Europe’s rival defense industry.
Posted on Oct 2, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Conservative activist circles are abuzz with a new conspiracy theory: Polls showing President Obama with a growing lead over Mitt Romney are deliberately being skewed by the Liberal Mainstream Media so that Republicans will be disheartened and stay home on Election Day.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The most important issue in the 2012 campaign barely gets discussed: How will we govern ourselves after the election is over?
Posted on Sep 23, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Romney dissing his wife Ann and why Jon Stewart says Mitt’s own father wouldn’t vote for him.
Posted on Sep 19, 2012
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Conservative blogs are saying U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was gay and shouldn’t have been sent to the Middle East; Google’s censorship of the controversial anti-Muslim video proves Web companies have more power than governments; meanwhile, a Stanford University study claiming organic foods are useless is being called fraudulent. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Sep 18, 2012
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Apparently being smart and having conservative values do not go hand in hand. At least, that’s what former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said during a weekend speech at the Values Voter Summit in which he also criticized the media and libertarians.
Posted on Sep 16, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — A specter is haunting the affluent societies of the West. Across the rich countries, and across the political spectrum, there is an unstated but palpable longing for a return to the 1950s.
Posted on Sep 12, 2012
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By Mark Heisler — This isn’t just a choice of philosophies, but the long-awaited showdown between post-FDR Democrats and post-Reagan Revolutionaries.
Posted on Sep 11, 2012
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Conservatives are once again leveling the false claim that Fluke, the women’s rights activist who was thrust into the national spotlight after Rush Limbaugh called her a “slut,” wants the government to pay for her to have sex.
Posted on Sep 6, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a top GOP lawmaker’s Labor Day gaffe and a warning from “Walker, Texas Ranger” star Chuck Norris.
Posted on Sep 3, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The Obama Democrats who gather in Charlotte this week have a big advantage over Tampa’s Romney Republicans.
Posted on Sep 2, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — In 1964, George Romney, then the governor of Michigan, walked out of the Republican National Convention during Barry Goldwater’s acceptance speech. He was protesting his party’s sharp turn rightward and its weak platform plank on civil rights.
Posted on Aug 27, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — As he became president in 1981, Ronald Reagan called in a 34-year-old congressman from Michigan named David Stockman, considered by many to be the most articulate and intellectually imposing Republican of the moment.
Posted on Aug 26, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — The uninvited participation of a hurricane at next week’s Republican convention would be superfluous. Buffeted by powerful internal winds, the party may be flooded with cash, but it’s already kind of a debris-strewn mess.
Posted on Aug 24, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Elizabeth Warren is the kind of person Massachusetts has always liked to send to the U.S. Senate. So why hasn’t one of this year’s most exciting Senate candidates put the election away?
Posted on Aug 22, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Contrary to Democrats’ hopes, Mitt Romney’s choice of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan for his running mate might not be such good news for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There is the idea of having Paul Ryan on the Republican ticket, and then there is the reality.
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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By William Pfaff — Foreign affairs will be the most important issue of all to address as the United States staggers forward into the void, yet the matter will seldom appear in what’s left of the presidential campaign.
Posted on Aug 14, 2012
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By Kim Barker, ProPublica —
Two conservative nonprofits, Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity, have poured almost $60 million into TV ads to influence the presidential race so far, outgunning all super PACs put together, new spending estimates show.
Posted on Aug 13, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — In the late 1960s and ’70s, liberals ran into trouble because they were easily mocked as impractical ideologues with excessive confidence in their own moral righteousness.
Posted on Aug 12, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Conservatives and a Republican Party now under their control hope to eke out a narrow victory in November on the basis of a quite radical program that includes more tax cuts for the rich and a sharp rollback in government regulation.
Posted on Jul 29, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — The Capitol has become a cold, angry place where members not only don’t know each other, but will not make eye contact when they pass through those hallowed marble corridors.
Posted on Jul 22, 2012
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By Joe Conason — The roiling paranoia and hatred that marred American politics when Bill and Hillary Clinton were in the White House has resurfaced in attacks on Barack and Michelle Obama, who like the Clintons have been maligned repeatedly as communist, subversive, Satanic and, above all, illegitimate.
Posted on Jul 18, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Through a series of miscalculations, Mitt Romney has managed to turn what should have been a minor hiccup into what may be a defining moment, and not in a good way.
Posted on Jul 16, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It’s good that conservatives are finally taking seriously the problems of inequality and declining upward mobility. It’s unfortunate that they often evade the ways in which structural changes in the economy, combined with conservative policies, have made matters worse.
Posted on Jul 15, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Now that the Supreme Court has reprieved the Affordable Care Act and Mitt Romney has renewed his pledge to dismantle it, let’s try again to pierce the Republican presidential candidate’s protective coat of vagueness and think about where he would take the country.
Posted on Jul 4, 2012
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By William Pfaff — The latest, and 20th, European “summit” meeting, held last week in Brussels, was symbolically a defeat for Germany’s Angela Merkel, who agreed that Europe’s permanent bailout fund could directly recapitalize certain troubled eurozone banks.
Posted on Jul 3, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — “Obamacare” isn’t about President Obama. It’s about beginning to bring an end to the scandal of a very rich nation leaving so many of its citizens without basic health coverage. However the court rules, we need to remember why this whole fight started in the first place.
Posted on Jun 26, 2012
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Jon Stewart discusses the fundraising efforts of prominent Republican donors, who held three separate events last weekend to raise money for GOP candidates and causes in the upcoming election.
Posted on Jun 26, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — For those who believe money already has too much power in American politics, 2012 will be a miserable year.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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Robert Scheer and KPFA’s Philip Maldari chat about issues including state politics, Rambo Obama’s use of executive power, the facade of the two-party system and the unresolved economic crisis.
Posted on Jun 12, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Why don’t Democrats just say it? They really believe in active government and think it does good and valuable things.
Posted on Jun 11, 2012
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A Gallup poll last month revealed that almost half of Americans are anti-empiricists—that is, they trust ancient descriptions of the world they live in over scientific explanations developed through a direct experience of it.
Posted on Jun 9, 2012
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By Scott Tucker — Obama has not changed his long held position that each state still has the right to be an experimental station for or against marital equality, though most states now have some form of legal ban against gay marriage.
Posted on Jun 7, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Mitt Romney fakes to the center, although his ultimate policy goal is on the right, dismantling the safety net, wiping out the health care law and assuring the wealthy of continued low taxes. Or is it? What does he really believe?
Posted on Jun 7, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The left will make a big mistake if it ignores the lessons of the failed recall of Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin. The right will make an even bigger error if it allows the Wisconsin results to feed its inclination toward winner-take-all politics.
Posted on Jun 7, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Michael Dukakis, the three-time governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic candidate for president, has the guts to say it.
Posted on Jun 3, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Gov. Scott Walker is not being challenged because he pursued conservative policies but because Wisconsin has become the most glaring example of a new and genuinely alarming approach to politics on the right.
Posted on May 30, 2012
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