The Economist: United States
January 14th, 2010 |
A victory within reach, but a worked example of America’s dysfunctional politics
A FEW treacherous skirmishes…
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Lakhdar Brahimi and Desmond Tutu
January 13th, 2010 |
The future of Sudan hangs in the balance. National elections are due in April. A referendum on the future status of the so…
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES
January 13th, 2010 |
Dave Sharpe was troubled by thoughts he couldn’t share after he returned from serving in Iraq. “I found my…
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Michelle Malkin
January 12th, 2010 |
Democrat Martha Coakley is the voice of the “little people” the way Ted Kennedy was the voice of sobriety.…
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Radley Balko
January 12th, 2010 |
In a 1982 speech, President Ronald Reagan declared illicit drugs a threat to America’s national security, putt…
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Jonathan Cohn
January 12th, 2010 |
When the Democrats announced that they would be forgoing conference committee proceedings and negotiating a final he…
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Marty Peretz
January 8th, 2010 |
I have made my own criticisms of President Obama and his administration’s perspectives on the etiology of terro…
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Peter Suderman
January 7th, 2010 |
In the 1980s, kiddie comic Pee-Wee Herman popularized “I know you are but what am I” as an all-purpose reto…
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The Economist: United States
January 7th, 2010 |
Hispanics, long under-represented as voters, are becoming political kingmakers
THE choice of John Perez to take over…
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The Economist: United States
January 7th, 2010 |
After carmakers, weak unions are attracting the aircraft business
IN 1983 Nissan became the first foreign carmaker in…
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