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By Richard Reeves — Immigrants, gays and women who choose abortion are our relatives. They are in our families. We love them—even Republican senators with gay children love them—and we don’t like seeing them pushed around by our government.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — Times are tough. Do the numbers: Chief executive officers of the country’s biggest companies experienced pay increases of a minuscule 15 percent in 2012, compared with the 28 percent their pay rose in 2011.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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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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By Richard Reeves — If you Google "Afghanistan," you get your choice of occupiers.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — I have been working at home for most of my life. Naturally, I’m interested in the controversy generated by Marissa Mayer, the new boss at Yahoo, when she ordered all that company’s employees to report to a regular company office.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — President Obama said "jobs" 47 times in his State of the Union message last Tuesday night, so we know what’s on his mind.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — If Calvin Coolidge of Vermont were alive and awake now—he was noted for taking long naps—he might want to change it to, "The business of America is show business."
Posted on Jan 8, 2013
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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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By Richard Reeves — Mike Allen, for those who don’t know, is Washington’s insiders’ insider.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Republicans are ending this campaign where they began four years ago, questioning the legitimacy of an elected black president with an odd (to us) name.
Posted on Oct 30, 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 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 Richard Reeves — The man is a serial liar in a society that increasingly tolerates lying and cheating.
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — I once wrote, about Gerald Ford, that an honest politician is one who lies only when he has to. Ford, a pretty straight shooter, is gone now. He has been replaced by Mitt Romney the ignorant and Paul Ryan the liar.
Posted on Sep 2, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — As he became president in 1981, Ronald Reagan called in a 34-year-old congressman from Michigan named David Stockman, considered by many to be the most articulate and intellectually imposing Republican of the moment.
Posted on Aug 26, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Some days, I feel I have seen it all. Other days, I just don’t want to get out of bed. Over eight years my family has been hit with lung cancer, brain cancer, strokes and various other medical calamities.
Posted on Aug 3, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — The Capitol has become a cold, angry place where members not only don’t know each other, but will not make eye contact when they pass through those hallowed marble corridors.
Posted on Jul 22, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — The Founding Fathers were great men who created a great country. But it was immigrants, all the rest of us, who made a great nation.
Posted on Jun 21, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — As it has many times over more than a century, the Golden State again tried to reform its politics.
Posted on Jun 15, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — The word "takeaway" was first used in 1961, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. And then it was about Chinese restaurants. Now it is about everything, including elections.
Posted on Jun 7, 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 Richard Reeves — Uh-oh! Some people are looking over the right shoulders of the Republicans who rode into the House of Representatives on the tea party wave of 2010. And they don’t like what they’re seeing.
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By Richard Reeves — After Richard Mourdock defeated Sen. Richard Lugar by 20 points in Tuesday’s Indiana Republican Senate primary, he called, more or less, for one-party government.
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By Richard Reeves — For the second straight year, Granada Hills Charter High School in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles has won the National Academic Decathlon.
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By Richard Reeves — Once upon a time there was a political tribe called "liberal Republicans," led by chieftains named Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits, Mac Mathias and others.
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By Richard Reeves — The 2012 presidential election is not only about who votes for Barack Obama and who votes for Mitt Romney. It is also about who votes.
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By Richard Reeves — If Mitt Romney had walked by a room called The Forum at the University of Southern California last Wednesday, he would quit his presidential race right now.
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By Richard Reeves — Gatherings of my generation inevitably end up with deep conversations about aches and pains and medical insurance. Sad. In France, people talk about food and wine.
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By Richard Reeves — Right-wingers and other fools believe that the "mainstream" media are devoted to electing lefties to public office so we can turn the United States into Sweden. In fact all we want is the campaign to go on forever.
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By Richard Reeves — The "values" voters are going to be disappointed, perhaps enraged, if President Obama is re-elected or if he is replaced by Mitt Romney. Their next move then will be to try to change the electoral system.
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By Richard Reeves — Mitt Romney clearly has no idea what his party stands for and is running against. To put it in Rick Santorum’s words, “It comes down to sex. That’s what it’s all about.”
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By Richard Reeves — If this was the last Republican debate, or the last important one, it was as entertaining and revealing as most of the previous 19. And scary.
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By Richard Reeves — Andrew Breitbart, the publisher of Breitbart.com and a couple of other popular websites, set the tone for a program at the University of Southern California last Wednesday by calling George Stephanopoulus of ABC News a little rat with a runny nose.
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By Richard Reeves — Reality show? What I see is an aquarium. The debates look like a tank full of exotic fish flashing their stuff for an instant at a time. You never see the whole thing, just flashes.
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By Richard Reeves — It would seem that the United States has a five-party system right now. What was done in Iowa last Tuesday could unravel in New Hampshire, but whatever happens next, the United States is more politically fractured than it has been in decades.
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By Richard Reeves — "I’m used to being in the minority," he said. "I’m a left-handed gay Jew."
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By Richard Reeves — The good news of the day is that Bill Moyers is coming back to television next January. The bad news is that Coca-Cola seems to be winning its battle to fill the Grand Canyon with empty plastic bottles.
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By Richard Reeves — Looking at the newspapers this morning, I noticed that Tom Brokaw was making a speech in New York. It made me wonder if he was working on a sequel to his books on "The Greatest Generation." This one might be called "The Worst Generation." Us.
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By Richard Reeves — I am all for Occupy Wall Street—and a lot of other places—but I wish I understood where this is going. And why it took so long to get going.
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By Richard Reeves — Democrats should be building statues of former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, or at least giving away copies of her new book, "A Governor’s Story."
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