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Climate Change Isn’t Just About Energy; It’s About National Priorities
Alaska Natives are in danger and need to be relocated due to warming Arctic weather, but the US government is dragging its feet. Polls show conservatives on average are …
Palin With a Pedigree
Liz Cheney is truly Dick's daughter, galvanizing the Republican base with her right-wing views and blistering critiques of Obama. Did somebody say 2012? When the Republican Jewish Coalition hosted …
Sex Is Primarily a Political Issue
The entire March 8, 2010, discussion with philosopher Elsa Dorlin Fréderique: If I wish you “happy holiday” this March 8, how do you answer me? Elsa Dorlin: No thank …
Howard Fineman | Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
The press finally falls out of love with Obama.
Michelle Obama | Let’s Move
How we can empower parents, schools, and the community to battle childhood obesity. For years, we've known about the epidemic of childhood obesity in America. We've heard the statistics …
E.J. Dionne Jr. | Dewey Defeats Truman – Again?
London - Could Prime Minister Gordon Brown become the Harry Truman of British politics? For many long months, Brown and his Labor Party were written off as sure losers …
Racial Disparities in Sentencing Rise After Guidelines Loosened
Washington - Black and Hispanic men are more likely to receive longer prison sentences than their white counterparts since the Supreme Court loosened federal sentencing rules, a government study …
New Agency Puts Clean Energy on Front Burner
While Arunava Majumdar says America urgently needs to come up with clean-energy “game changers,” until now there hasn’t been a systematic approach to develop them. The job of developing …
Joe Conason | The New McCarthyism
The national madness known as “McCarthyism” began 60 years ago in Wheeling, W.V., when Joseph R. McCarthy held up a scrap of paper that supposedly listed the names of …
To Teach Is to Seduce (2)
To be a good teacher, must one be an erudite academic or a perceptive pedagogue? The debate is endless. Jean-Paul Brighelli brings a new element to the discussion: knowing …