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By Robert Scheer, Christopher Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry
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By Eugene Robinson — The unwarranted snooping, which was revealed last week, would be troubling enough if it were an isolated incident. But it is part of a pattern that threatens to redefine investigative reporting as criminal behavior.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Those who are trying to make the Benghazi tragedy into a scandal for the Obama administration really ought to decide what story line they want to sell.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions.
Posted on May 6, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama had the opportunity this week to make an irresponsible Congress face the consequences of its own dumb actions. For reasons I cannot fathom, he took a pass.
Posted on May 2, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama is right to resist the mounting pressure for military intervention in Syria. Action by U.S. forces may or may not make the situation better—but certainly could make things worse.
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — In retrospect, George W. Bush’s legacy doesn’t look as bad as it did when he left office. It looks worse.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — The nation demonstrated again last week how resolute it can be when threatened by murderous terrorists—and how helpless when ordered to heel by smug lobbyists for the gun industry.
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — It is time to acknowledge that the fashionable theory of school reform—requiring that pay and job security for teachers, principals and administrators depend on their students’ standardized test scores—is at best a well-intentioned mistake, and at worst nothing but a racket.
Posted on Apr 1, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — It’s hard for me to accept that the right to “keep and bear arms” extends to the kind of arsenal that Adam Lanza—and his mother, Nancy, whom he also killed—assembled and kept in their home.
Posted on Mar 29, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Don’t take anything for granted. The conservative activists on the Supreme Court may not be able to halt the inexorable shift toward acceptance of gay marriage, but we probably should expect them to try.
Posted on Mar 26, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Shame on Harry Reid for killing any prospect of an assault weapons ban. I understand why he did it, but that doesn’t make it right.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — I hate the sequester, beginning with its name. “Sequester” is a verb, not a noun. This ridiculous exercise is not just unwise and unproductive, but ungrammatical as well.
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — In his bid to be remembered as a transformational leader, President Obama is following the playbook of an ideological opposite, Margaret Thatcher. First you win the argument, she used to say, then you win the vote.
Posted on Feb 15, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Republicans shouldn’t worry that President Obama is trying to destroy the GOP. Why would he bother? The party’s leaders are doing a pretty good job of it themselves.
Posted on Jan 29, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Republicans wanted nothing more than to summon Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Capitol Hill and grill her about the tragic fiasco in Benghazi. Sadly for them, they got their wish.
Posted on Jan 25, 2013
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White House/Chuck Kennedy
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By Eugene Robinson — Reflect for a moment: A black man stood on the Capitol steps and took the oath of office as president of the United States. For the second time. Meaning that voters not only elected him once—which could be a fluke, a blip, an aberration, a cosmic accident—but turned around and did it again.
Posted on Jan 21, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — Don’t listen to those who say President Obama’s bold plan to reduce gun violence—including an assault weapons ban—has no chance in Congress.
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Assuming we’re all still here: What is it that humans find so compelling about impending oblivion?
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Are you as sick of the “fiscal cliff” as I am? Actually, that’s a trick question. You couldn’t possibly be.
Posted on Dec 13, 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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By Eugene Robinson — Just this once, I wish I could write with pictures instead of words. That would make it easier to explain why the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died Wednesday at 104, was one of my heroes.
Posted on Dec 6, 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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By Eugene Robinson — You might not have noticed that another round of U.N. climate talks is under way, this time in Doha, Qatar. You also might not have noticed that we’re barreling toward a “world ... of unprecedented heat waves, severe drought, and major floods in many regions.” Here in Washington, we’re too busy to pay attention to such trifles.
Posted on Nov 30, 2012
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401(K) 2012 (CC-BY-SA)
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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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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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CIA
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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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By Eugene Robinson — So much for voter suppression. So much for the enthusiasm gap. So much for the idea that smug, self-appointed arbiters of what is genuinely “American” were going to “take back” the country, as if it had somehow been stolen.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — We’ve had two once-in-a-century storms within the span of a decade. Will we finally get the message?
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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NASA
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By Eugene Robinson — Back when he was being “severely conservative,” Mitt Romney suggested that responsibility for disaster relief should be taken from the big, bad federal government and given to the states, or perhaps even privatized. Hurricane Sandy would like to know if he’d care to reconsider.
Posted on Oct 29, 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 Eugene Robinson — Not a close call. President Obama won the second presidential debate as clearly and decisively as he lost the first. For anyone who disagrees, three simple words: “Please proceed, Governor.”
Posted on Oct 17, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — First, he has to show up. Then, in his second debate with Mitt Romney, President Obama needs to offer not just history lessons and dire warnings, but also a hopeful vision for the next four years.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Mitt Romney claims to disagree with President Obama on many aspects of foreign policy. We’re still waiting to hear what those differences might be.
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — I would be careful about declaring the presidential contest “a whole new race” following Wednesday’s debate.
Posted on Oct 4, 2012
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Collage of photos by Gage Skidmore(CC-BY-SA)
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By Eugene Robinson — It promises to be an epic clash: Mitt Romney vs. Mitt Romney. Oh, and President Obama will be there, too.
Posted on Oct 1, 2012
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Rob Boudon (CC BY 2.0)
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Laws recently enacted in several states where minority votes could swing the election may prevent up to 10 million eligible Latino voters from casting their ballots this November, a new study shows.
Posted on Sep 25, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — When Michelle Obama called voting rights “the movement of our era” in a speech Saturday night, she didn’t specifically mention the Republican-led crusade for restrictive voter identification laws. She didn’t have to.
Posted on Sep 24, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Teachers are heroes, not villains, and it’s time to stop demonizing them.
Posted on Sep 18, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Romney’s rushed statement Tuesday night calling the Obama administration’s response to the violence in the Middle East “disgraceful” was a new low in a campaign already scraping bottom.
Posted on Sep 13, 2012
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Obama for America/Christopher Dilts
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By Eugene Robinson — Judging by the party conventions, you’d wonder why this election is even close.
Posted on Sep 6, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Has there ever been a more dishonest presidential campaign than the one Republicans are waging right now?
Posted on Aug 31, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — The uninvited participation of a hurricane at next week’s Republican convention would be superfluous. Buffeted by powerful internal winds, the party may be flooded with cash, but it’s already kind of a debris-strewn mess.
Posted on Aug 24, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — At least until Election Day, Republicans were supposed to pretend that their party’s alleged “war on women” was nothing but a paranoid fantasy stoked by desperate Democrats. Obviously, Rep. Todd Akin didn’t get the memo.
Posted on Aug 20, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Republicans and Democrats are being equally nasty in their campaign rhetoric, but they’re not being equally truthful.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate underscores the central question posed by this campaign: Should cold selfishness become the template for our society, or do we still believe in community?
Posted on Aug 14, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Mitt Romney’s defiant secrecy about his personal finances looks like a cross Republicans will have to bear all the way to Election Day. To put it mildly, the burden seems to chafe.
Posted on Aug 6, 2012
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