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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There is a healthy struggle brewing among the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops.
Posted on May 23, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Conservatives are not accustomed to being on the defensive. They expect their progressive opponents to be wimpy and apologetic.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It’s hard not to notice that Christianity hasn’t been presented in its own best light during this election year because Christians have not exactly been putting forward their best selves.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Imagine the shock when conservative Supreme Court justices repeatedly spouted views closely resembling the tweets and talking points issued by organizations of the sort funded by the Koch brothers.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Three days of Supreme Court arguments over the health care law demonstrated for all to see that conservative justices are prepared to act as an alternative legislature, diving deeply into policy details as if they were members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Clarifying moments are rare in politics. Over the last week, Americans were blessed with three.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The Republican presidential primaries this year have turned into a religious census. There is little precedent in modern politics for the extent to which a state’s choice for a nominee has coincided so closely with how many of its ballots were cast by white evangelical voters.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The question is whether 2012 will mark a comeback by a left invigorated by a growing unhappiness with rising economic inequalities and a backlash against austerity policies aimed at saving Europe’s common currency. (Pictured, British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband.)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Republicans cannot shut down their presidential nominating contest because the party is in the midst of an upheaval wrought by the terror the GOP rank and file has stirred among the more moderately conservative politicians who once ran things.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — At their national conference this week, Catholic bishops should ponder how they transformed a moment of exceptional Catholic unity into an occasion for recrimination and anger.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Mitt Romney is grinding his way to the Republican presidential nomination not by winning hearts but by imposing his will on a party that keeps resisting him.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There is a terrible bias in the mainstream media, which judge “moderation” almost entirely in relation to positions on social issues such as abortion or gay marriage.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — If the election were held right now, President Obama would likely win by about the same margin that propelled him into office in 2008. But how fragile are his current advantages?
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — They say that President Obama is a Muslim, but if he isn’t, he’s a secularist who is waging war on religion.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The problem with culture wars is that one side typically has absolutely no understanding of what the other is trying to say.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Romney’s decisive victory in Florida came at a price. He aggravated Newt Gingrich’s hostility to him, with all the trouble that could entail, and left behind a dispirited Republican electorate in a state the GOP needs to win this fall.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — On contraception, Obama threw his progressive Catholic allies under the bus, strengthened the very forces inside the church that sought to derail the health care law, and created unnecessary problems for himself in the 2012 election.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — This is what progress looks like for a president named Barack Hussein Obama.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — If the Republicans want to have a genuinely searching debate about the future of their party, they’d send Santorum and Huntsman off for the long fight.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Four years ago this week, a young and inspirational senator who promised to turn history’s page swept the Iowa caucuses and began his irresistible rise to the White House.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It is one of the true delights of a bizarrely entertaining Republican presidential contest to watch the apoplectic fear and loathing of so many GOP establishmentarians toward Newt Gingrich.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Jon Huntsman could pull off a Granite State miracle if Republicans see him as a winner (and a real conservative), and independents view him as the sane guy in a preposterous crowd (and a moderate).
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It was gratifying to hear a despotic leader blame the United States for the rise of a democratic protest movement against his regime.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — President Obama has decided that he is more likely to win if the election is about big things rather than small ones.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The contest for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination has been described as a reality show and a circus. But what’s happening inside the GOP is quite rational and easily explained.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Two politicians from different countries and with very different political pedigrees made news this week. Both spoke difficult truths and reminded us that we shouldn’t use the word “politician” with routine contempt.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Some of my middle-of-the-road columnist friends keep ascribing our difficulties to structural problems in our politics. But the problem we face isn’t about structures or the party system. It’s about ideology.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Any time the Obama administration touches issues related to the Roman Catholic Church, it seems to get itself caught in a rhetorical and moral crossfire that leaves all involved wounded and angry.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Will the Occupy movement play into the hands of its enemies by living up to the stereotypes they are trying to create? Or will it instead move to a new phase that builds on its success?
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — We have embarked on yet another presidential campaign in which religion will play an important role without any agreement over what the ground rules for that engagement should be.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Can Mitt Romney be dislodged as the fragile but disciplined front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination? If he can, South Carolina is the best bet for the role of spoiler.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — We may be reaching an inflection point, the moment when the terms of the political argument change decisively.
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