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Labor and Obama: Sweethearts No More
President Obama's honeymoon with organized labor has finally ended. It was a long honeymoon, though, more than a year and full of passion. But, alas, labor's ardor has cooled. …

Ponzi Nation: How Get-Rich-Quick Crime Came to Define an Era
Every great American boom and bust makes and breaks its share of crooks. The past decade — call it the Ponzi Era — has been no different, except for …

Eugene Robinson | Not From Central Casting
Washington - It took the case of “JihadJane” to illuminate what should have been obvious by now: Anyone who claims to be able to identify a potential terrorist by …

E.J. Dionne Jr. | Good Debt, Bad Debt
Washington - There is a pathetic quality to our discussion of deficits and fiscal responsibility because we never face up to how much we need government to do. Our …

Reid Formally Notifies Republicans He Will Use Reconciliation to Pass Health Care Bill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid formally informed Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell Thursday that he will use the budgetary process of reconciliation to try and pass a final round of …

“I Don’t Want to Be Famous. I Want Our People to Get Enough Rice”: The Messenger Band Interview
“My name is Saem, and the name of my group is the Messenger Band,” the singer more formally known as Vun Em explains. We are in Phnom Penh's Meta-House, …

Trouble in Europe
One of the first notable acts of the new European Commission presided over by JosĂ© Manuel Barroso was - on March 2 - to shatter the moratorium on authorization …

What Makes America Strong?
An unmanned drone hovers over the house of a suspected leader of a terrorist cell, the craft's camera and missiles controlled by a soldier thousands of miles away on …

House Afghanistan Debate: What Kucinich Accomplished
Yesterday, at long last, there was a vigorous debate about the war in Afghanistan on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. The legislative vehicle was a …

Greenspan’s Nightmare Is Much of the World’s Dream
Alan Greenspan had a dream, or rather a nightmare. Greenspan seems to have woken up in a cold sweat one morning in fear that the period of “disinflationary pressures” …