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E.J. Dionne Jr. | On Health Care, Listen to the Nuns
Washington - One of the tragedies of the viciously politicized battle over health care reform is the defection of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops from a cause they have …
How Two Little-Known Offices Will Shape the Vote on the Health Care Bill
Washington — The complex, highly partisan closing push for healthcare reform is, in many ways, coming down to two Washington institutions whose devotion to nonpartisanship and a mastery of …
Insurer Targeted HIV Patients to Drop Coverage
Washington - In May, 2002, Jerome Mitchell, a 17-year old college freshman from rural South Carolina, learned he had contracted HIV. The news, of course, was devastating, but Mitchell …
The Lies of Karl Rove
Joseph Goebbels, the leading propagandist of the Third Reich, believed in the power of the lie; the greater the lie, the greater the power. Goebbels would have loved Karl …
Obama’s Regulatory Czar Deliberately Stalling Toxic Coal Waste Regulation
It may be unsettling to some that the man most responsible for overseeing coal ash regulation within the Obama administration has a track record of siding with polluters instead …
Robert Reich: Expect 10 Percent Unemployment Until 2011 (VIDEO)
The Commonwealth Club of California January 22, 2010
Victory at Last?
Take a moment with this. That is the cover of Newsweek from the first week of March, the month in which we will mark the seventh anniversary of the …
Afghanistan Enacts Law That Gives War Criminals Blanket Immunity
A law that provides blanket immunity and pardons former members of Afghanistan’s armed factions for war crimes and human rights abuses committed prior to December 2001 was quietly enacted …
Stop Mistreating Working Women!
Although the global recession has had a serious impact on working men and women alike, two new reports make clear that women in the United States and throughout the …
Love Will Rule
As I was reading recent editorials by mainstream journalists, I was struck by their inability to transcend Old School political logic. Their thinking appears to be stuck in the …