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By David Halberstam
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By Matt Miller
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By Mark Heisler — If 24 percent of respondents ages 14-17 tell an Associated Press-MTV poll they’ve done naked sexting, you can imagine the implications for professional athletes.
Posted on Oct 27, 2010
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AP / Rodrigo Abd
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By Robert Scheer — It’s over for the U.S. in Afghanistan, but that doesn’t mean the death and destruction are about to stop. Quagmires don’t just go away. However, the signs are everywhere that the American course in that nation is doomed.
Posted on Oct 26, 2010
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By Amy Goodman — Just days away from crucial midterm elections, WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, unveiled the largest classified military leak in history. But in the U.S., it barely warranted a mention on the agenda-setting Sunday talk shows.
Posted on Oct 26, 2010
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By Ruth Marcus — The election is less than a week away. Democratic control of the House is in jeopardy. So it’s not too soon to start worrying about Darrell Issa.
Posted on Oct 26, 2010
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By William Pfaff — An epoch of Western world political domination is coming to an end. This is not simply an end to imperialism (new or old), but quite possibly the beginning of a probably long decline in the West’s primacy in industry, technology and scientific innovation.
Posted on Oct 26, 2010
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Flickr / Susan E Adams (CC-BY-SA)
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By Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang —
The tea partyers issue dire warnings of the threat posed by government, but their movement ignores the threat from corporate America: pollution, dangerous products and banking practices that brought us the worst economic crash since the Great Depression.
Posted on Oct 26, 2010
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By Eugene Robinson — What if President Obama and the Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill had pushed through an authentic, righteous, no-holds-barred progressive agenda, perhaps with a thick overlay of pitchfork populism?
Posted on Oct 25, 2010
65 COMMENTS
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AP / Dario Lopez-Mills
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By Chris Hedges — The lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, which looks set to make sweeping gains in the midterm elections, is the direct result of a collapse of liberalism.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — If you travel any place where there is a contested race for the House or Senate, you are bombarded with attack ads, almost all against Democrats, paid for by groups that do not have to reveal where their money comes from.
Posted on Oct 25, 2010
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AP / Karim Kadim
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By Scott Ritter — Moqtada al-Sadr’s ability to influence Iraq’s political affairs has earned him the title “kingmaker,” but his true aspiration is to be king. He stands a reasonable chance of succeeding.
Posted on Oct 24, 2010
15 COMMENTS
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Flickr / Fibonacci Blue (CC-BY)
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By Stanley Kutler — While our media wizards report a groundswell of anger against the president, tea party candidates and financiers appear to be as bothered by the policies of Franklin Roosevelt as those of Barack Obama.
Posted on Oct 24, 2010
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Satire by Andy Borowitz —
Like many Americans, over the past several years I have been the recipient of multiple unwelcome voice mails from the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Posted on Oct 24, 2010
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By Eugene Robinson — The crisis over faulty or fraudulent paperwork in mortgage foreclosures—which is either a big deal or a humongous deal, depending on which experts you believe—is the fault of arrogant, greedy lenders who played fast and loose with the basic property rights of homeowners.
Posted on Oct 22, 2010
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By David Sirota — The only way to objectively define the tea party is to find a test case. And thanks to Wisconsin’s Senate race, we have exactly that.
Posted on Oct 22, 2010
31 COMMENTS
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AP / Richard Drew
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By The Rev. Madison Shockley — Juan Williams is living evidence that watching too much Fox News will rot your brain.
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