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By Joe Conason — The political salience of the Aurora tragedy extends beyond the usually sterile argument over gun control.
Posted on Jul 27, 2012
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AP/Jae C. Hong
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By Bill Boyarsky — Ignored by the presidential campaigns, poverty is hitting 1960s levels, and spreading to once-prosperous areas unequipped or unwilling to serve poor residents.
Posted on Jul 26, 2012
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Jul 12, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, Cagle Cartoons, MSNBC.com —
Posted on Jul 9, 2012
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AP/Evan Vucci
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By Bill Boyarsky — Now that the Supreme Court has reprieved the Affordable Care Act and Mitt Romney has renewed his pledge to dismantle it, let’s try again to pierce the Republican presidential candidate’s protective coat of vagueness and think about where he would take the country.
Posted on Jul 4, 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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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch —
Posted on Jul 2, 2012
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Photo by massmatt
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Multiple unnamed sources confirmed that Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the conservative bloc of the court before switching his vote on health care reform, says CBS News’ Jan Crawford.
Posted on Jul 2, 2012
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — There are few resistance figures in American history as noble as Crazy Horse.
Posted on Jul 2, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Robert Scheer, Lisa Bloom, ACLU Arizona Executive Director Alessandra Soler and Move to Amend’s David Cobb on the Supreme Court. Also: A big city goes bust.
Posted on Jul 1, 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: Robert Scheer, Lisa Bloom, ACLU Arizona Executive Director Alessandra Soler and Move to Amend’s David Cobb on the Surpeme Court. Also: A big city goes bust.
Posted on Jul 1, 2012
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today —
Posted on Jun 29, 2012
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When the Supreme Court’s landmark health care decision came down on Thursday, CNN and Fox News raced to be first in reporting the ruling. They were first, all right: the first major news networks to incorrectly report that the mandate had been struck down.
Posted on Jun 29, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including congressional action on student loan rates and Glenn Beck trying to profit off of the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling.
Posted on Jun 29, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — The political impact of Thursday’s stunning Supreme Court decision on health care reform is clear. Much more important is what the ruling means in the long term for the physical and moral health of the nation.
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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Nate Beeler, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today and the Fort Myers News-Press —
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The Supreme Court’s decision upholding the health care law is not only a huge victory for President Obama but also a moment of leadership for Chief Justice John Roberts. The court’s mixed verdict could create problems, notably in its weakening of the law’s Medicaid provisions in the name of states’ rights.
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Supreme Court decisions, the U.S. attorney general being held in contempt and why Bill O’Reilly should apologize.
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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AP/Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — Mitt Romney and his advisers have not yet grasped that the health care decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts has changed the terms of the debate.
Posted on Jun 28, 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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White House/Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — By throwing out most of the anti-Latino Arizona immigration law and neutering the rest, the Supreme Court struck a rare blow for fairness and justice.
Posted on Jun 25, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Middle East expert Juan Cole says Egypt’s military rulers have “begun acting stupidly.” Also: 5.6 million new jobs (with a catch), the problem with Obama’s immigration policy, and Robert Scheer on health care.
Posted on Jun 22, 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: Middle East expert Juan Cole says Egypt’s military rulers have “begun acting stupidly.” Also: 5.6 million new jobs (with a catch), the problem with Obama’s immigration policy, and Robert Scheer on health care.
Posted on Jun 22, 2012
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AP/Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — Most Americans want pretty much the same outcome from health care reform, and it’s not what either major-party candidate is offering.
Posted on Jun 20, 2012
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AP/Evan Vucci
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By Bill Boyarsky — Mitt Romney fakes to the center, although his ultimate policy goal is on the right, dismantling the safety net, wiping out the health care law and assuring the wealthy of continued low taxes. Or is it? What does he really believe?
Posted on Jun 7, 2012
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By Bill Blum — As the country waits in fear and loathing for the high tribunal to drop the dime on Obamacare, we might do well to parse the damage Chief Justice John Roberts and his colleagues have already done this term to our collective rights and liberties.
Posted on Jun 6, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the Wisconsin recall election, the next step in the battle to legalize same-sex marriage in California and Bill O’Reilly’s election prediction.
Posted on Jun 5, 2012
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AP/Nam Y. Huh
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By Scott Tucker — The wider political pathology here is authoritarianism, and not simply a garden variety of British royalism.
Posted on Jun 5, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — Those of us who care about a civil society, and who abhor violence, should begin to replicate what is happening in Quebec. Their fight is our fight.
Posted on Jun 3, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Michael Dukakis, the three-time governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic candidate for president, has the guts to say it.
Posted on Jun 3, 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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Al Jazeera English (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Bahrain’s hospitals are becoming centers of terror and distrust as government officials use them to identify, torture and arrest protesters, doctors and nurses for their involvement in the ongoing uprising against the ruling Al Khalifa family.
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Jon Rawlinson (CC-BY)
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By John Donnelly —
Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin suggest in their new book, “Tinderbox,” that colonialists’ aggressive trade practices opened new travel routes in central Africa that helped spread a disease rooted in a dense forest to the world beyond.
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Photos by Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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By Eugene Robinson — It’s all over but the shouting, or, in this case, the polite applause: Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican presidential nominee. But which Mitt Romney? Will it be Mitt One or Mitt Two?
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david drexler (CC-BY)
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Economist Gerald Friedman has what looks to be the silver bullet against the claim that single-payer health care is infeasible on economic grounds, showing how “Medicare for all” could save billions of dollars while improving millions of lives.
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AP/J. David Ake
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By Chris Hedges — There is no substantial difference between Obamacare and Romneycare. There is no substantial difference between Obama and Romney.
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White House / Pete Souza
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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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bbc.co.uk
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This would feel like horse-race politics, employment edition, if only the stakes weren’t so high: The Department of Labor released employment data on Friday for the month of March, and the results didn’t match more optimistic projections for the blustery month.
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AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Bill Boyarsky — The night after President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act was being mercilessly attacked by U.S. Supreme Court conservatives, I was surprised to find a group of Obama volunteers cheerfully gathered in a nondescript office building east of Los Angeles to make phone calls for the president’s campaign.
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By Joe Conason — While the public awaits the Supreme Court’s judgment on the constitutionality of health care reform, it is worth remembering how cheaply Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas in particular have sullied the integrity of their lifetime appointments.
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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By Eugene Robinson — The problem for Mitt Romney, assuming he eventually wins the GOP nomination, is that a general election campaign isn’t really like an Etch A Sketch. Alas, traces from the primaries linger.
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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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