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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 …

“We Have 51 Senate Votes for Public Option” Adam Green to Ed Schultz (VIDEO)
Adam Green, of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, told Ed Schultz yesterday that he counts 51 votes in the senate for the public option, and cites details on senators …

Obama’s Health Care Legacy Hangs on 216 House Votes
Washington - The looming vote for final passage of the historic health-care bill is the stiffest challenge House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn has faced in his three-plus years as …

A Place to Make Sparks
We're all tired of the suffocating parameters of “left versus right,” of “blue America versus red America,” of manufactured conflict - the evil twin of manufactured consent. We're tired …

Obama’s Plan for Education Reform: Short on Specifics, So Far
President Obama will send the outlines of an education overhaul bill to Congress on Monday, promising sweeping changes to a faltering American education system.

Israel Lands in Public Relations Nightmare
Jerusalem - Israeli riot police and soldiers have, since Friday, sealed off the Al Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest shrine, restricting entry to women and Palestinian men over 50. …