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By John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
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By Robert Scheer — Won’t it be great to have someone in the mold of George W. Bush back in the White House?
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: There’s an election Tuesday, and we invite the two main alternative candidates to make a case for why we should take a chance on them in an election that is already too close to call. Also: Mo Rocca and Robert Scheer.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio: There’s an election Tuesday, and we invite the two main alternative candidates to make a case for why we should take a chance on them in an election that is already too close to call. Also: Mo Rocca and Robert Scheer.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Here’s where we have arrived as a country: We are so polarized that even compromise has become a partisan issue.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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By David Sirota — New Jersey’s Republican Gov. Chris Christie is a potentially more important political figure than anyone running for the White House.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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Todd Benson (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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It’s going down to the wire as an extremely close election, but a majority of Americans (54 percent) believes Barack Obama will beat Mitt Romney, according to Gallup, even though the same polling outfit shows Romney in the lead.
Posted on Oct 31, 2012
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AP/Evan Vucci
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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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AP/Lynne Sladky
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By Bill Boyarsky — The Democratic and Republican campaigns have accumulated a tremendous amount of political and personal data on millions of Americans.
Posted on Oct 31, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Oct 31, 2012
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By William Pfaff — It is a profound but nearly universal mistake among Americans (and others) to think that the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan in 2013 or 2014 will end the American war with the Muslim world that began on September 11 in 2001.
Posted on Oct 30, 2012
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Obama for America/Christopher Dilts
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While Obama flew home to take command of the federal response to Hurricane Sandy, the campaign marched on Monday, with 66-year-old Bill Clinton trying to catalyze the youth vote in Florida.
Posted on Oct 30, 2012
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Paul Zanetti, Cagle Cartoons, Australia —
Posted on Oct 29, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — The November election is not a battle between Republicans and Democrats. It is not a battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It is a battle between the corporate state and us.
Posted on Oct 29, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — We still make a lot of stuff in the United States of America, and one of the good things about this election is that it is likely to be decided in the nation’s industrial heartland.
Posted on Oct 28, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Oct 28, 2012
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Oct 28, 2012
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A recent study shows blacks in the U.S. are more likely to identify as gay than other ethnic groups; saggy pants have become illegal in a Florida city; meanwhile, Mitt Romney’s work for big tobacco is at odds with his professed Mormon beliefs. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Oct 27, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Oct 27, 2012
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
Posted on Oct 27, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
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Aislin, Cagle Cartoons, The Montreal Gazette —
Posted on Oct 26, 2012
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on Oct 26, 2012
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Oct 26, 2012
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By David Sirota — A confession: I recently received my Colorado ballot but, even though my state will play a key role in the presidential election, I still haven’t voted.
Posted on Oct 25, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Beneath his cool exterior, there is passion and a trash-talking crudeness hidden in President Obama.
Posted on Oct 25, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — This election is only tangentially a fight over policy. It is also a fight about meaning and identity—and that’s one reason why voters are so polarized. It’s about who we are and who we aspire to be.
Posted on Oct 25, 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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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Oct 24, 2012
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today and the Fort Myers News-Press —
Posted on Oct 24, 2012
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Oct 24, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Oct 24, 2012
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Photo by Ed T (CC-BY-SA)
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The candidates have talked a lot about health care this election cycle, but not so much about the actual health of Americans. According to a study by Gallup, adult Americans of just about every age are likelier to be obese today than they were in 2008.
Posted on Oct 24, 2012
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U.S. Marine Corps/SSgt Jeff Kaus
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By William Pfaff — The United States is intellectually adrift upon an exceptionally turbulent sea running in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, and on the larger scene, Washington is blundering into serious trouble with Russia and probably with a China that is on the edge of both foreign and domestic crises.
Posted on Oct 23, 2012
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Oct 22, 2012
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today and the Fort Myers News-Press —
Posted on Oct 22, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Everywhere you turn, President Obama is accused of not offering a clear second-term agenda. It’s not surprising that Republicans say it, but you also hear it from quarters sympathetic to the president. But how true is the charge?
Posted on Oct 21, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Assuming that neither man faints on the stage at their final debate on Monday, the Obama-Romney race now depends on three smoking guns rarely discussed by candidates: geography, demography, and getting out the right vote.
Posted on Oct 21, 2012
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By David Sirota — The two names that best explain money’s unprecedented political influence in America are not Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, but Montgomery Brewster and Ross Perot.
Posted on Oct 21, 2012
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Oct 21, 2012
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Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania —
Posted on Oct 21, 2012
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Romney’s campaign is benefiting from racism among voters; Catalonia’s cry for independence is inspiring violent threats from Spanish institutions; meanwhile, “Fifty Shades of Grey’s” immense popularity reflects the modern sexual condition. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Oct 21, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Oct 20, 2012
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Oct 20, 2012
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Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Oct 20, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Oct 20, 2012
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AP/Susan Walsh
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The famed whistle-blower has been a sharp critic of the president, but he says a Romney/Ryan administration would be “catastrophically worse.”
Posted on Oct 18, 2012
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