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Israel and the Palestinians Through the Looking Glass
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 20, 2011. After a lengthy meeting with Netanyahu on …
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The Tea Party Is Yesterday’s News
Washington - When Richard Nixon won his 49-state landslide over George McGovern in 1972, Pauline Kael, the legendary New Yorker film critic, was moved to observe: “I live in …
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It’s Time to Retire the Roth IRA Fiscal Frankenstein
The day after Congress passed health care, an opponent called it “a fiscal Frankenstein.” In fact those are fitting words for Roth Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). Roths are great …
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Privatization: The Road to Hell
Billionaires are different from you and me, for obvious reasons, including the fact that they buy much pricier baubles than we do.
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Was Rahm Right?
Rally for Barack Obama in Manchester, NH, September 13, 2008. (Photo: binarydreams) In 2009, then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel infamously said that progressives are “fucking …
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Stop All Military Aid
Israel is now dictating conditions to the United States and upbraiding President Obama for having the nerve to suggest finally following UN Resolution 242, which has long called for …
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Access Journalism: The Movie
It is not true, as a Wall Street Journal reviewer claimed, that the HBO movie version of Andrew Sorkin's book “Too Big to Fail” was “Too Boring to Watch.” …
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The Crisis Enters Year Five
Tony Harrington waits in line to talk with potential employers at a job fair, which drew more than 250 people, in Bloomington, Minnesota, May 2, 2011. (Photo: Craig Lassig …
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Are Latin America’s Economies Overheating?
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in spite of all the talk about reform is pushing for fiscal adjustment around the world. The IMF argues overheating in the developing world, …
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Wrong Question, Wrong Answer
(Photo: COCOEN daily photos) A hundred and fifty years ago, the rich and the royal came from as far away as Europe and South America to Carthage, …