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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Saturday, July 17, 2010
A Change Election—in the Wrong DirectionBy Joe Conason — The furious and frustrated electorate should be careful when they demand change in the upcoming midterm elections—because what they get may well be very different from what they actually want.
The NAACP and the Tea Party’s Flag-BurnersBy E.J. Dionne, Jr. —
Good for the NAACP. We need an honest conversation about the role of race and racism in the tea party. Thanks to a resolution passed this week at the venerable organization’s national convention, we’ll get it.
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
Friday, July 09, 2010
Facing extinction: The "responsible Republican"
Warnings about right-wing extremism from Michael Gerson and ousted Bob Inglis are too little -- and much too late
by Joe Conason
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Warnings about right-wing extremism from Michael Gerson and ousted Bob Inglis are too little -- and much too late
by Joe Conason
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Thursday, July 08, 2010
by Chuck D.
The recent passing of a one-sided immigration bill into law in the state of Arizona has brought a buzz of American cultural attention to Public Enemy. This law is riveted in the bad taste and practice of racial profiling of Latino people in a region, and there still hasn’t been a clear answer as to how that land transferred from indigenous people into the United States of America.
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
On the Left, a False Choice Fuels the Growing Civil War Over Obama
by Peter Daou
Political consultant, former adviser to Hillary Clinton
This civil war is premised on a false choice: that an incremental legislative approach and a well-articulated grand ideological vision are mutually exclusive. They're not.
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The GOP Goes Off the Rails By Bill Boyarsky — Death wish isn’t too extreme a phrase to describe the Republicans’ recent conduct. What else could explain their behavior this summer?
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Fourth of July 1776, 1964, 2010
by Frank Rich
In the matter of race, we still take steps back and forward in bewildering alternation.
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by Frank Rich
In the matter of race, we still take steps back and forward in bewildering alternation.
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Surprise, surprise: Tea Partiers are Republicans
by E.J. Dionne
Tea Party people, I have been arguing, are simply right-wing Republicans organized under a new banner.
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by E.J. Dionne
Tea Party people, I have been arguing, are simply right-wing Republicans organized under a new banner.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
We Can’t Afford War By Amy Goodman —
The U.S. will eventually negotiate its withdrawal from Afghanistan. The only difference between now and then will be the number of dead, on all sides, and the amount of (borrowed) money that will be spent.
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Monday, June 28, 2010
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
The Wound McChrystal Opened By E.J. Dionne, Jr. —
Gen. Stanley McChrystal put President Barack Obama in an impossible position. That is why McChrystal had to go.
General Discharge By Robert Scheer —
Rolling Stone’s definitive piece on the “Runaway General” establishes the man in charge of the Afghanistan misadventure as an egotistical flake whose half-baked Afghan war-fighting strategy should never have been endorsed.
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