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The Rigged Missile Defense Test
The Pentagon and the Bush administration are determined to sell the American people a national missile defense system that will probably increase tensions with allies and adversaries and will surely...
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Ashcroft’s Failures Deserve a Hearing
There may come a time to boot Robert Mueller III as F.B.I. director, if Congressional and other investigations eventually prove that his removal is warranted. For now, he is in the difficult position...
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It Can Happen Here
The following is excerpted from Joe Conason's new book, "It Can Happen Here" (Thomas Dunne Books, 2007).Can it happen here? Is it happening here already? That depends, as a recent president might have...
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The Illusion of Progress in Iraq
Following two days of carefully staged theatrics on Capitol Hill and cable television, the essential facts about Iraq remain unchanged. Despite the big charts and the blustering fanfare highlighted by...
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Corporate Campaign Contributions Make Us All Sick - Literally!
If Congress fails to enact health care reform this year—or if it enacts a sham reform designed to bail out corporate medicine while excluding the “public option”—then the public will rightly blame...
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The Right Won't Stop Smearing ElBaradei with Lies
To his fellow Egyptians and to most observers across the world, Mohamed ElBaradei looks like a hero—an international diplomat who might well have lived out his days in the comforts of Geneva and New...
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Why Are Some Pundits and Politicans Hell-Bent on Underminig Social Security,...
Among the mysteries of modern politics in America is why so many of our leading pundits and politicians persistently seek to undermine Social Security, that enduring and successful emblem of active...
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Rep. Peter King's Anti-Muslim Hearings Revealed Just One Thing -- He's Bad at...
Despite the dubious credentials of Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., as an opponent of terrorism, owing to his years fronting for the Irish Republican Army, his controversial hearings on the "Extent of...
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Government Shutdown: Will Reckless GOP Minority Get Its Way?
Scarcely any news story induces sleep as swiftly and surely as congressional budget negotiations -- a topic that features politicians bickering loudly over huge dollar amounts that lack meaning for...
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Playing With Default: Republicans Are Risking Economic Disaster by Bickering...
The current puppet play in Congress—where Republicans sponsored a bill to raise the nation’s debt ceiling only because they wanted to vote it down—would be funny, if only they weren’t risking economic...
View ArticleWashington's Got Much Deeper Moral Problems Than Anthony Weiner
While the well-deserved departure of Anthony Weiner draws rapt attention in our tabloid nation, the depredations of less colorful but more powerful politicians go unnoticed, so long as no genitalia...
View ArticleThe Ruinous Rant of John McCain
The decline of the Grand Old Party into an angry mob is gaining momentum, with crackpot rage displacing common sense on every major issue from public finance to marriage rights. An ominous signal of...
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Will Obama Finally Play Hardball In Debt Ceiling Standoff?
At long last, President Obama seems to have run out of patience with the truculent Republicans who have rejected all of his overtures for a budget deal -- just as Moody's and other economic...
View ArticleWhy China is Laughing All the Way to the Bank At Our Debt Ceiling Drama
The global impact of the American debt crisis -- and the likelihood of permanent damage to American interests -- are already visible to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., from his perch as chairman of the...
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What Obama Should Learn From Wisconsin
With Wisconsin's epic state senate recall battle now over, the results carry a clear message that ought to resonate all the way to Washington -- and especially the Obama White House. The essence of...
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Meet the Shady Dallas Mega-Billionaire Industrialist Pouring Money into Rick...
Like so many Republican officials of the tea party persuasion, Rick Perry despises the Environmental Protection Agency—a feeling he has expressed repeatedly in speeches, lawsuits, legislation and even...
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How Rick Perry's Attempt to Privatize Medicaid Wasted Millions While...
Both as governor of Texas and as the leading Republican presidential candidate, Rick Perry has established himself as a harsh critic of federal programs -- and, in particular, as a "state's rights"...
View ArticleThe GOP: Preserving Life (Except the Uninsured)
Watching the Republican presidential candidates and their agitated tea party supporters at the CNN/Tea Party debate, an ordinary citizen might feel confused. Those people sound angry, but exactly what...
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Should We Worry About Mitt Romney's Mormon Faith?
Recent expressions of political and religious prejudice against Mormons and the Church of Latter-Day Saints have offered Mitt Romney a chance to play the bullied underdog -- and to explain, as he did...
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Taboo in Today's GOP? Realism and Compassion
Tasteless and questionable as it was for CNN to "co-sponsor" a Republican presidential debate with a pair of right-wing Washington think-tanks, at least the branding was accurate. There among the...
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