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On Cuba, Republicans Know Only Failure
Dec 20, 2014 Listen carefully to the Republican leaders and presidential hopefuls roaring with outrage over President Barack Obama's courageous decision to normalize relations with Cuba; listen very carefully, because no matter how long or how closely you listen to them, there is one thing you will surely never hear.
CIA Crimes Without Punishment
Dec 11, 2014 With the release of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the use of torture by the CIA after 9/11, the final defense of the indefensible by its perpetrators, advocates and publicists is falling apart before our eyes.
What Voters Don’t Know (Yet) About Jeb Bush
Dec 4, 2014 Whenever the deep thinkers of the Republican establishment glance at their bulging clown car of presidential hopefuls, they inevitably start chattering about "Jeb Bush."
Fix Decaying Pipelines First for Jobs, Health and Safety
Nov 20, 2014 With the Keystone XL pipeline stalled again, now perhaps we can look ahead and consider more promising ways to rebuild our energy system, creating many more jobs than that controversial project ever would.
Immigration, Impeachment and Insanity on the Republican Right
Nov 18, 2014 Obstructing, denouncing and demonizing Barack Obama are so central to the existence of the Republican Party today that its leaders simply ignore the real purposes of the president's proposed immigration orders.
Beneath the Republican Wave, Voters Still Reject Right-Wing Ideology
Nov 8, 2014 In the wake of the 2014 midterm "wave election," Americans will soon find out whether they actually want what they have wrought.
Plutocrat or Populist? Actually, Hillary Clinton Is Neither
Nov 1, 2014 As America's biggest political target -- a status she is likely to enjoy for the foreseeable future -- Hillary Clinton takes incoming fire of every caliber from all directions.
Let Obama and the CDC Do Their Jobs
Oct 18, 2014 If the prospect of hanging concentrates the mind, then even the possibility of infection with Ebola should do the same -- for all of us.
What Ebola Can Teach Us
Oct 10, 2014 The lessons are quite obvious at this point -- and contain implications that are political in the most urgent sense.
Those Budget-Busting, Job-Killing GOP Governors
Oct 3, 2014 Even as Republicans boast of their chances to take over the United States Senate come November, their party's governors across the country are facing dimmer prospects.