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By Gerard Prunier
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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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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: E.J. Dionne Jr. on our “Divided Political Heart.” Also on the show: California’s new mortgage law, the Declaration of Internet Freedom and the secret lives of Russian spies.
Posted on Jul 8, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: E.J. Dionne Jr. on our “Divided Political Heart.” Also on the show: California’s new mortgage law, the Declaration of Internet Freedom and the secret lives of Russian spies.
Posted on Jul 8, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It’s entirely appropriate that the week of our July Fourth celebrations should coincide with a moment when the Supreme Court’s health care decision has prompted intense debate over the purpose of our government and what the Constitution allows it to do.
Posted on Jul 4, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The Supreme Court’s health care decision only reinforced the importance of the economic argument Obama and Romney have been having for months. And here is where Romney’s Bain problem kicks in.
Posted on Jul 1, 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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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — If the United States were still governed under the Articles of Confederation, might California be in the position of Greece, Spain or Italy?
Posted on Jun 20, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — He had just been through the roughest patch of President Obama’s re-election struggle and yet senior adviser David Axelrod seemed, if not quite serene, then at least amiably stoic.
Posted on Jun 17, 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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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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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 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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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Progressives have yearned for President Obama to follow Harry Truman’s strategy from the 1948 campaign by giving his Republican opponents hell. Now that Obama is doing just that, his critics say he’s not looking presidential.
Posted on May 27, 2012
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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. — In this election, we’re not having an argument that pits capitalism against socialism. We are trying to decide what kind of capitalism we want.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Mitt Romney was against Bill Clinton before he was for him.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The Obama administration has chosen a distinctly American path that kept austerity at bay. As a result, the American economy has climbed out of the Great Recession more quickly than most of Europe.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The American Prospect, a center-left magazine (for which I have occasionally written) faces a financial crisis that could soon force it to shut its doors.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — What happened in Connecticut brings home the flaw in seeing everything that has happened in the states since the midterm vote as embodying a steady shift rightward.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It turns out that there is at least one question on which Mitt Romney is not a flip-flopper: He has a Utopian view of what an unfettered, lightly taxed market economy can achieve.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — We are about to have the worst presidential campaign money can buy.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Instead of fighting a phony mommy war over what Hilary Rosen said about Ann Romney, we should face the fact that most families these days cannot afford to have one parent stay home with the kids.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — In proving himself more tenacious than anyone predicted, Santorum dramatized one of Romney’s major problems, created another, and forced the now inevitable Republican nominee into a strategic dilemma.
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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. — What do Rick Santorum and Clint Eastwood have in common?
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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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