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Where’s the Syria Plan?
Washington - It's hard to argue with President Obama's call for Bashar al-Assad, the bloodthirsty Syrian dictator, to step down. But it's also hard to discern any logic or …
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A Success Story as Big as Texas? Actually, That’s a Myth
Rick Perry, the governor of Texas and Republican presidential candidate. (Photo: Erich Schlegel / The New York Times.) Texas has been adding jobs faster than the rest …
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Europe’s Quiet Revolution Could Be America’s, Too
The overarching challenge in the world today is: how do we advance the institutions and practices capable of enacting a desirable quality of life for a burgeoning global population …
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The President’s Bold Jobs Bill (Maybe)
The President is sounding like a fighter these days. He even says he’ll be proposing a jobs bill in September – and if Republicans don’t go along he’ll fight …
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Why is the US Waging War on Women Raped in War?
Mandatory sonograms, forced lectures by doctors, humiliating permission slips from abusive husbands, paternalistic opinions from Supreme Court Justice Kennedy, uneducated and patently stupid soundbites from Tea Partiers. That’s not …
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Cutting Out the Social Safety Net Is No Sign of Bravery
In today’s New York Times, Helene Cooper wrote a news analysis advocating that President Obama slash Medicare and Social Security even though it might cost him reelection. The reporter, …
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How Austerity Is Ushering in a Global Recession
Not only is the United States slouching toward a double dip, but so is Europe. New data out today show even Europe’s strongest core economies – Germany, France, and …
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The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas
It is unfathomable that yet another Texas blowhard governor has emerged as a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination. The persistent appeal of the mythology of Texas as a …
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“Governor Supercuts” for President?
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican presidential candidate, greets 100-year-old Mary Canfield of Cedar Falls, Iowa, at the Black Hawk County GOP dinner at the Electric Park Ballroom in …
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Doing Debt Ceiling Battle the FDR Way
Against a Congress where zealously rich people-friendly conservatives hold the upper hand, how much can a President of the United States committed to greater equality realistically hope to accomplish? …