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White House / Pete Souza
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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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Joe Crimmings (CC-BY-ND)
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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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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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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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White House / Pete Souza
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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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White House / Pete Souza
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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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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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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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World Economic Forum / Michael Wuertenberg (CC-BY-SA)
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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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Kenny Louie (CC-BY)
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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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Tony Unruh (CC-BY-ND)
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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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White House / Pete Souza
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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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© Jeff Pappas
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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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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It’s one of the strangest things in our politics: The only “big” ideas Republicans and conservatives seem to offer these days revolve around novel and sometimes bizarre ways of cutting taxes on rich people.
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White House / Chuck Kennedy
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Can President Obama take advantage of the egalitarian sentiment let loose in the country by the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations? The best response comes not from polls but from history.
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Lost in the hubbub over Herman Cain’s love affair with the number 9 during last week’s Republican debate were some compelling observations by Rick Santorum about “the breakdown of the American family” and its relationship to poverty.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Senate Republicans sent a signal in voting as a bloc against President Obama’s jobs bill: Don’t just do something, stand there. But doing nothing is at least preferable to the ideas coming out of their party’s presidential candidates.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It’s not often that a sound bite from a Democratic candidate gets so under the skin of my distinguished colleague George F. Will that he feels moved to quote it in full and then devote an entire column to refuting it.
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Mark Taylor (CC-BY)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — This week, progressives will highlight a new effort to pursue the road not taken at a conference convened by the Campaign for America’s Future that opens Monday.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — You can’t accuse a big capitalist of “class warfare.” That’s why the right wing despises Warren Buffett and is trying so hard to shut him up.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Have you noticed that one of the Obama administration’s most successful programs is also its most “socialist” initiative?
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The Republican Establishment is said to have grave qualms about Gov. Rick Perry. Here’s the problem: There is no Republican Establishment. It squandered its authority by building up the tea party’s brigades and then fearing them too much to do anything to check their power.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Call it the Party-of-Government Paradox: If the nation’s capital looks dysfunctional, it will come back to hurt President Obama and the Democrats, even if the Republicans are primarily responsible for the dysfunction.
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Library of Congress / Dick DeMarsico
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — We tend to honor the Martin Luther King Jr. we want to honor, not the Martin Luther King Jr. who actually existed.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It’s remarkable how reluctant Obama’s opponents are to acknowledge that despite all the predictions that his policy of limited engagement in Libya could never work, it actually did.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — President Obama has only one option as he ponders a world economy teetering on the edge: He needs to go big, go long and go global.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The mood of the White House crowd and past experience suggest that a new Obama—or, in many ways, the old Obama of 2008—is about to appear.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There will be no magic potion, no instant formula for Democrats and progressives struggling to come back from their disastrous 2010 election losses.
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White House / Samantha Appleton
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The world is looking to the United States to help power a recovery and provide leadership at a time when we are suffocatingly inward-looking—and when ultraconservatives are so dogmatic about slashing government that they are prepared to boot away our nation’s influence.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — What the country yearns for is moderation. What we hear about is the political center. But centrism has become the enemy of moderation.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Most Americans care more about jobs and the economy than debt, which is why Mitt Romney is campaigning on those issues while President Obama is caught up in the tea party’s priorities.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The House Republican strategy to link a normally routine increase in the nation’s debt limit with a crusade to slash spending has already had a high cost, threatening the nation’s credit rating and making the United States look dysfunctional and incompetent to the rest of the world.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The wounded are especially dangerous fighters. President Obama now occupies the high ground in the debt ceiling debate, having called the Republicans’ bluff on the debt. He showed that deficit reduction is not now, and never has been, the GOP’s priority. He dare not get overconfident.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Here’s why getting to a deal on the debt ceiling is so complicated.
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Detail of a draft of the Declaration of Independence from Wikimedia Commons
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Our nation confronts a challenge this Fourth of July that we face but rarely: We are at odds over the meaning of our history and why, to quote our Declaration of Independence, “governments are instituted.”
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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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