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Olbermann Is Out: MSNBC Host’s Departure Shows the Limits of Corporate Media’s Liberalism
Whether the abrupt termination of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann's contract on January 21 was connected to Olbermann's left-of-center politics or the recent purchase of NBC by Comcast from General …
Roads Not Taken: John F. Kennedy, Patrice Lumumba and George H. W. Bush
Bravo to the The New York Times for publishing Adam Hochschild's January 17 op-ed, An Assassination's Long Shadow. The piece marked the 50th anniversary of an event long forgotten …
The Corruption Game
What the Tunisian revolution and WikiLeaks tell us about American support for corrupt dictatorships in the Muslim world. Here’s one obvious lesson of the Tunisian Revolution of 2011: …
Can the US Support UN Resolution on Israeli Settlements? Yes We Can!
A key resolution on the Israel-Palestine conflict is now before the UN Security Council. Largely echoing stated US policy, the resolution embraces negotiations, endorses the creation of a Palestinian …
Alan Grayson | Will He Say This?
President Obama is delivering his State of the Union message today. This is the speech that I would like to hear: "My fellow Americans. Two years ago, 69 million …
Eugene Robinson | Meat-Cleaver Budgeteers
Washington - Despite what you might have heard, the coming battle on Capitol Hill is not really about “government spending” in the abstract. It's about two radically different visions …
Rich, but Poorer Than the Richest
It seems that objectively rich people in the United States are feeling poor these days. In an article published online on Jan. 11, Catherine Rampell, an economics editor at …
Why Hillary Clinton Flagged Judicial Reform as “Essential” to Mexico’s Drug War
Mexico City - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed in a visit to Mexico Monday the importance of reforming Mexico’s judicial system, a policy matter that has been overshadowed …
