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An American Cry for Help (Video)
Finally tonight, a Special Comment about health care reform and tomorrow's summit at Blair House. If I prove to have trouble getting through this, I apologize in advance. Last …
Skewing the Health Care Debate
President Obama met on Thursday with the glitterati of Capitol Hill in a much-ballyhooed confab on health care reform, and more specifically, the health of his current health care …
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Live-Blogging the Health Care Summit: Waxman to Obama “Republicans Won’t Help You“
Watch the summit live below.
Putting “Humanitarian” Back in “Humanitarian Aid“
One of the first things that Haitians now living in the streets want to talk about is their disgust over the international food aid program. In such places as …
Climate Change’s Secret Weapon
The water is crystalline, the sand is whiter than white, and elegantly bent palm trees sway in the breeze. This is how the Seychelles markets itself: as “another world.” …
E.J. Dionne Jr. | The Next New Dealers
Washington - Young Americans are the linchpin of a new progressive era in American politics. So why aren't Democrats paying more attention to them? The relative strength of conservatives …
Push Back, Democrats
The Democratic Party has lost the thread of its own narrative. Instead of positioning itself as the friend and ally of the working and middle classes against the power …
War Politics: Numb and Number
Playwright Lillian Hellman said, “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.” The statement was in a letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee …
Senate Panel Blasts Blackwater Over Theft of Assault Weapons, Civilian Deaths
“Multiple irresponsible acts” and “troubling gaps in government oversight” plagued the Afghan operations of a Blackwater Wordlwide affiliate defense contractor named Paravant, according to a Senate Armed Services Committee …