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North Carolina: Ground zero for conservative rule

June 18, 2013
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The corporate-funded conservative movement, which lost big in the 2012 presidential election, is nonetheless thriving at the local level— most notably in the swing state of North Carolina, where ascendent right-wingers are turning back the clock and consigning the state's proud progressivism to the chopping block. Move over Wisconsin, you've got company. More »

Obama, Syria, and a nation weary of war

June 17, 2013
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The Syrian civil war has long bedeviled Barack Obama - American non-intervention has arguably made it worse; American intervention could arguably make it worse - but now he has finally made a decisi... More »
Obama, finally, surrenders to science

June 14, 2013
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One good thing happened this week. President Obama finally gave up his fight to put politics ahead of science. After 18 months of resistance, he announced on Monday that he would permit emergency con... More »
Republicans and rape - again!

June 13, 2013
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Seriously, what is it about Republican men and rape? Why do these men keep insisting that women impregnated by their rapists should be forced to give birth? And why, in defense of that stance, do th... More »
For Republicans, it's diversify or die

June 12, 2013
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It's decision time for the GOP. Does the party want to be competitive in future presidential elections, or does it prefer to doom itself to perpetual defeat? More »
Darrell Issa and the presumption of guilt

June 11, 2013
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The presumption of innocence, a staple of western law, can be traced all the way back to ancient Rome. Translating from the sixth-century Latin: "Proof lies on him who asserts, not on him who den... More »
Edward Snowden: Hero or traitor?

June 10, 2013
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So what do we think of Edward Snowden, the young computer whiz who blew the lid off the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance? More »
The bipartisan assault on privacy

June 7, 2013
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Nobody should be shocked to learn that the secretive National Security Agency is routinely collecting our phone records (known in the lingo as "telaphony metadata"), or that it's routin... More »
Obama stiffs GOP, elevates Susan Rice

June 6, 2013
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So Susan Rice gets the last laugh after all - as well she should, after having run the gauntlet of Republican lies. Last autumn and winter, while serving as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nation... More »
Republicans battle Republicans over Obamacare

June 5, 2013
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One big reason why Republicans love scandal-mania is because it unites them. Hating Obama is virtually the sole tie that binds. And whenever they scream "Watergate," they deflect the publi... More »