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By Fyodor M. Dostoevsky; Constance Garnett (Translator)
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Jan 15, 2013
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Canines have more to do with presidential elections than one might think; the conditions in which alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning was detained were “excessive,” a military judge found; meanwhile, The Associated Press has started selling sponsored tweets on its Twitter feed. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
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Bob Jagendorf (CC-BY)
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Mother Jones profiles a growing coalition of environmental, labor and civil rights groups, including Greenpeace and the NAACP, that began meeting off the record in December to try to figure out “what to do to beat back the deep-pocketed conservative movement.”
Posted on Jan 9, 2013
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U.S. Army/Sgt. Matthew C. Moeller
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By William Pfaff — Not all of the world—certainly not the Islamic world—wants America’s version of global security, which has required repeated American military interventions abroad, provoking guerrilla and terrorist resistance.
Posted on Jan 8, 2013
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — The security and surveillance state, recently released FBI documents show, monitors even mainstream dissenters and is determined to shut down all organized resistance to corporate rule. The goal: an encompassing system of pervasive fear and overt intimidation.
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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By Ralph Nader —
Before the electoral year of 2012 slinks into history, it is worth a comparative glance back to the electoral year of 1912 to give us some jolting perspective on how degraded our contemporary elections, voter performance and election expectations have become.
Posted on Jan 1, 2013
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AP/Mark Lennihan
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David Koch’s conservative political organization Americans for Prosperity is threatening to unleash a torrent of political attack ads against congressional members in the next election if they vote for the $60.4 billion federal storm aid package.
Posted on Dec 23, 2012
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By Joe Conason — What may finally consume the House Republicans is their boundless contempt for the American public—a contempt bluntly demonstrated in their refusal to consider any reasonable compromise with President Obama to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff” Dec. 31.
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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AP/Narciso Contreras
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By Bill Boyarsky — Politicians are still terrified of the NRA, even though analysis shows that the organization’s power is greatly exaggerated.
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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AP/Ivan Sekretarev
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By Ivo Mijnssen — Russia is cracking down further on political dissent by requiring foreign humanitarian workers to register, more or less, as spies.
Posted on Dec 18, 2012
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AP/Dave Collins
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By Bill Boyarsky — Throughout the country, health professionals, politicians and health care activists are meeting about how to implement the Affordable Care Act now that it has been upheld by the Supreme Court and President Barack Obama’s re-election.
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The potential of a renaissance in conservative thought is enormous, if the right can overcome a certain intellectual laziness and inflexibility that, in fairness, have at other times afflicted the progressive side of politics.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — The biggest problem the Republican Party faces is not uninspiring candidates or unsound tactics. It is unpopular ideas.
Posted on Dec 10, 2012
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AP/Fernando Llano
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Although he was only recently elected to a fourth term as Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez has flown to Cuba for yet another surgery to address malignant cancer.
Posted on Dec 10, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Over the long run, the most important impact of an election is not on the winning party but on the loser.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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Office of the Speaker of the House/Bryant Avondoglio
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By Eugene Robinson — How dare he? President Obama, I mean: How dare he do what he promised during the campaign? How dare he insist on a “balanced approach” to fiscal policy that includes a teensy-weensy tax increase for the rich? Oh, the humanity.
Posted on Dec 3, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Dec 1, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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By Joe Conason — The opposition to Susan Rice is cobbled together from the remnants of a failed “October Surprise” election gambit, and has left President Obama little choice but to move ahead with her nomination.
Posted on Nov 29, 2012
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By William Pfaff — France has a double crisis. Its ruling political party, Francois Hollande’s Socialist, is in a state of catatonia, usually defined as a condition of incoherence with alternate periods of stupor and activity. More after the jump about that.
Posted on Nov 29, 2012
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AP/Gerald Herbert
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By Bill Blum — The justice has expressed contempt for the sitting president and is ready for a leading ideological role.
Posted on Nov 27, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — We’re seeing the first signs in years that on the question of taxation—one of the fundamental responsibilities of government—the GOP may be starting to recover its senses.
Posted on Nov 26, 2012
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Mike Licht (CC-BY)
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The New York Times reports that there is internal strife within the administration about the willy-nilly use of drones to kill people abroad (2,500 since President Obama took office) and, fearing defeat at the polls, the Obama administration was working overtime to lay down a set of rules governing robotic assassination.
Posted on Nov 25, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — I hope the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops contemplating the future of the church’s public and political engagement notice how the good deeds of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Francis de Sales have inspired people far beyond the confines of Catholicism.
Posted on Nov 25, 2012
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Office of the Speaker/Bryant Avondoglio
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By Joe Conason — Hearing so much chatter about “change” in the Republican Party, the innocent voter might believe that the Republicans had learned important lessons from their stinging electoral defeat.
Posted on Nov 21, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Nov 21, 2012
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Israeli strikes have killed at least 116 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in the last seven days, the majority of them civilians, including 27 children. As U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in the region Tuesday to broker talks between Israelis and Palestinians, Hamas has demanded an end to the Gaza blockade and international assurances that Israel will stop assassinations and military measures.
Posted on Nov 20, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — If Obama is looking for a single, unifying objective, it should be to make sure that by the time he leaves office, the vast majority of Americans will have abandoned their declinist fears.
Posted on Nov 19, 2012
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MCAD Library (CC-BY)
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The 25 alternative candidates elected to state legislatures in the 2012 election might not seem like a huge groundswell, but it represents the highest level of independent representation in statehouses since 1942.
Posted on Nov 18, 2012
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Nov 16, 2012
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AP/Sandy Huffaker
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By Robert Scheer — The big news from the last election is that California, home to 12 percent of Americans and the world’s eighth-largest economy, is a model of rational political thought.
Posted on Nov 16, 2012
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By Joe Conason — Trying to explain away his decisive, sweeping and very expensive rout to his disappointed supporters—those one-percent Republicans—Mitt Romney offered a new version of the discredited “47 percent” argument that was so ruinous in its original form.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Any way you slice and dice the data, they point toward inevitable political change over the next couple of decades.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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Torben Hansen (CC-BY)
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By David Sirota — What’s next? Amid all the munchie-themed jokes from reporters, political elites and late-night comedians, this remains the overarching question after Coloradans voted overwhelmingly to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana in the same way alcohol is already legalized, regulated and taxed.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — I know it’s early, but I have a sinking feeling the Republican Party is taking all the wrong lessons from last week’s election.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Human nature and politics being what they are, Republicans will underestimate the trouble they’re in, and Democrats will be eager to overestimate the strength of their post-2012 position.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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Ken Lund (CC-BY-SA)
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There is a growing and idiotic movement by people dissatisfied with American democracy in the form of President Obama’s re-election to secede from the union. I have a better idea: Just move.
Posted on Nov 14, 2012
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U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Lorie Jewell
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By William Pfaff — As a former serviceman, I have been long bemused by the proliferation of ribbons and other decorations on the chests of today’s high-ranking army officers, now mired in scandal.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — The one familiar aspect of the David Petraeus scandal is that he had an affair. Everything else about this story is weird.
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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