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E.J. Dionne
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“Our freedom is under attack like never before,” said Chris Cox of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action on Friday at the gun lobby’s big get-together in Houston. As if that wasn’t enough, Texas Gov. Rick Perry opened his mouth.
Posted on May 3, 2013
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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 3, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 3, 2013
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girlsofatomiccity.com
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By Scott Martelle —
In 1942, the U.S. government created an instant, secret city in rural Tennessee to process uranium for the world’s first atomic bomb. And Rosie, it turns out, did much more than drive rivets.
Posted on May 2, 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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White House (Archive)
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By Joe Conason — Not so fast, please: There are a few salient questions that George W. Bush (or at least his library) ought to address before the rehabilitation begins.
Posted on May 2, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — “Ultimately, the success of the nation depends on the character of its citizens.” So said George W. Bush in his speech at the dedication of his presidential library in Texas last week.
Posted on May 1, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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Seeking to clarify his “red line” position on the Syrian government’s possible use of chemical weapons, President Obama said Tuesday that he would consider a “range of options,” but he also urged patience.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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By William Pfaff — The “More Europe” remedy favored by German Chancellor Angela Merkel seems plausible enough as a slogan, but so did the single currency.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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Forget the CIA. The Federal Communications Commission is like the fourth branch of American government, and its officials are not elected.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — There is a growing acceptance and indeed a demand for additional surveillance cameras, cellphone eavesdropping, location checks and biometric identifiers.
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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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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Artwork, images and photo from Brian Wood's website.
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By Sheerly Avni — Brian Wood is a best-selling comic book writer whose body of work expresses a political and social awareness that ranks with the best in speculative fiction.
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The policy mystery of our time is why politicians in the United States and across much of the democratic world are so obsessed with deficits when their primary mission ought to be bringing down high and debilitating rates of unemployment.
Posted on Apr 28, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Apr 28, 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 Joe Conason — Having directed NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies for most of the past four decades, Dr. James E. Hansen retired this month to devote himself to the scientific activism that has brought both awards and catcalls during his long and distinguished career.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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Nation Books
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By Jeremy Scahill — The killing of U.S. born, al-Qaida-affiliated cleric Anwar al-Awlaki set a dangerous precedent here in America.
Posted on Apr 25, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
The Financial Transaction Tax, or Robin Hood Tax, would generate more than $300 billion a year in revenue, thereby doing away with the need for the sequester currently forcing across-the-board budget cuts.
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
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By William Pfaff — The blood runs cold when one fully appreciates how vulnerable official policymakers and the Western policy community are to slogans and to magical thinking.
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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AP/Brendon Smialowski
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By Robert Scheer — The horror of Boston should be a reminder that the choice of weaponry can be in itself an act of evil.
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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AP/Francisco Seco
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As lawmakers on both sides of the aisle spend copious amounts of time on their seemingly futile quest to reach an agreement about how to deal with the nation’s burgeoning debt, there’s an even bigger economic problem in the U.S.: unemployment.
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
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By Bill Blum — Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been denied his Miranda rights and should he be charged as an enemy combatant?
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Apr 21, 2013
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By David Sirota — After an explosion like those in Boston, it is indeed hard to hear one’s own internal monologue, much less meditate on such horrific events.
Posted on Apr 19, 2013
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Apr 19, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Apr 18, 2013
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U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Dallas Edwards
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By Richard Reeves — More than 8,000 interpreters are employed by the United States military, and many thousands of other Afghans are working for the occupiers.
Posted on Apr 17, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the release of a post-9/11 torture report that lays the blame squarely at the feet of the nation’s highest officeholders and the unveiling of a bipartisan agreement on immigration reform.
Posted on Apr 16, 2013
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By Robert Reich — The biggest economic debate is between Keynesians (who want more government spending and lower interest rates in order to fuel demand) and supply-side “austerics” (who want lower taxes on the wealthy and on corporations to boost incentives to hire and invest, and who see government deficits crowding out private investment). Both approaches have problems.
Posted on Apr 16, 2013
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Reading mass media news articles is unhealthy and causes unhappiness, so stop it; Americans want to know more about socialism, as evidenced by Merriam-Webster’s two most searched entries in 2012; meanwhile the Swedes were dissatisfied with gendered pronouns and have officially incorporated a third, gender-neutral one into their language. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Apr 15, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Apr 15, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 15, 2013
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — Exploitation of bus drivers is just one part of the corporate disemboweling of the U.S. public transportation system. As the destruction of city and state bus and subway services enters its final phase, their unions have either disappeared or lost clout.
Posted on Apr 15, 2013
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