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George Clooney and Google Team Up to Help Sudan
George Clooney has initiated a cutting-edge human rights project that combines satellite photographs, field reports and Google technology to help prevent the resumption of a deadly civil war in …
Mumbai Case Offers Rare Picture of Ties Between Pakistan’s Intelligence Service, Militants
Pakistan's powerful intelligence service has been accused for years of playing a “double game:” acting as a front-line U.S. ally in the fight against terror while supporting selected terrorist …
New Year’s Prediction (I): The Tea Party Conservative Strategy for 2011
Next week starts the new Congress, and with it the Tea Party conservatives. What's their strategy? What will they rally around? They'll grouse endlessly about government spending but I …
Will Arizona Hijack the 2011 Immigration Debate?
After commanding the world's attention in 2010 with its cavalier stance on immigration, the Arizona state legislature is threatening—once again—to dominate national immigration discourse and policy. This week, Arizona …
With Ink Barely Dry on START, Fight Looms Over Test-Ban Treaty
Washington - The latest salvo in President Barack Obama's campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons was fired Wednesday, delivered not by the administration, but by the man who presided over …
Serfing USA: Corporate America Is Robbing American Workers
Along with the staggering theft in broad daylight of Americans’ assets that has occurred in the course of the ongoing financial crisis, as taxpayers funded multi-trillion bank bailouts and …
School Bans Facebook for a Week: Five Lessons Students Learned
Considering a New Year’s Resolution to cut back on Facebook time in favor of real face time with friends and family? A one-week blackout of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, …
For Ireland, a Question of Scale
Many readers have asked how I reconcile my disdain for Ireland’s bank bailout in 2008 (and praise for Iceland’s refusal to put taxpayers on the hook) with my support …
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E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Will Liberals Learn From Adversity?
Washington - Was 2010 American liberalism's Waterloo? How are we to square the achievement of so many goals that have long been on progressive wish lists with the resounding …