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E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Who Is Sanctimonious?
Washington - What does President Obama think of those who fought and bled to pass his bills in Congress (in some cases losing in this year's election for their …
Bill McKibben: Growing Global Movements
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James Kwak | More on the Tax Deal
First, the comic relief. From the Times: "Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, said that he still wanted the Bush-era rates extended permanently and that the cost …
House Passes DREAM Act, but Senate Prospects Dim
Washington - The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday night that would provide a conditional path to citizenship for as many as 500,000 children of illegal immigrants. While …
Esther Cepeda | Latinos Mulling New Tune in Politics
Chicago - It's 1985 and Pee-wee Herman walks into a bar to use the phone, arousing the anger and suspicion of a murderous biker gang called “Satan's Helpers.” A …
Jim Hightower | The Redistribution of America’s Wealth to the Few
Several of America's top high-tech giants are now breaking with conventional thinking on the offshoring of their factories and jobs, asking a heretofore unthinkable question: “Who needs China?” "Let's …
Robert Scheer | From Jefferson to Assange
All you need to know about Julian Assange's value as a crusading journalist is that The New York Times and most of the world's other leading newspapers have led …
test solutions
In the first “Solutions: Making Government Work” column, editor Dina Rasor outlines an essential first step toward regaining control over the notoriously corrupt Department of Defense contracting system. It's …
WikiLeaks Tracker
Welcome to the WikiLeaks Tracker. Here we'll document the latest developments regarding WikiLeaks: the intricacies of little-noticed cables, the large-scale efforts to suppress the leaks, the response of the …
The Heartbreak of Premature Capitulation
There's this old joke about the French Revolution. A group of prisoners is lined up before the guillotine. One by one, their heads are lopped off. Then, the next …