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Winning the Peace
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:18:00 GMT

TEL AVIV --- In advance of his surprise trip to Iraq this week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates showed up here trailing a comet's tail of bad news behind him. After a series of bombs on Wednesday killed more than 180 people in Iraq, Gates, appearing with

Letters
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:18:00 GMT

Print Friendly| Email Article Where's the Liberal TV Channel? Re: 'Switching Channels,' Michael Tomasky, 4/13/07. We're not liberal zillionaires, but we have a technology that could be used to put up an internet TV station at very low cost. The bigger

Guns, Drugs, and the Massacre in Virginia
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:57:00 GMT

Why aren't handguns as strictly regulated as prescription medication? By Robert B. Reich Web Exclusive: 04.20.07 Print Friendly | Email Article In the United States, if you are seriously depressed, you can purchase anti-depressive drugs like Prozac, but

Turning Lights Down, And Profits Up
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:50:00 GMT

By Jonathan Rauch, National Journal National Journal Group Inc. Friday, April 20, 2007 Pratt & Whitney's turbine module factory in East Hartford, Conn., makes some of the most advanced jet engines in the world. The factory floor comprises more than 10

Cold Standard
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:48:00 GMT

Protect your home and your privacy, with the company that lets you be in control. Advertisement PEGGY NOONAN Virginia Tech and the heartlessness of our media and therapy culture. Friday, April 20, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT I saw an old friend on the Acela on

Irshad Manji's Flying Leap
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:54:00 GMT

At the start of 'Faith Without Fear,' Irshad Manji's hour-long film documenting her quest to 'reconcile faith and freedom' as a Muslim living in the West, sirens wail in the distance as Manji stands before her bullet-proof window surveying Toronto at

Dis-Inevitability
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:04:00 GMT

Ever since we learned that at least 12 and as many as 19 states will hold their primaries or caucuses on February 5, the conventional wisdom has been that when we wake up on February 6, the Democrats will have a nominee. Seems plausible. Any candidate

Miscarriage of Justice
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:04:00 GMT

Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the first federal law that bans an abortion procedure for all women and all doctors in all states. By holding that Congress's interest in 'preserving and promoting fetal life' trumps both scientific evidence and

What the Senators Should Ask
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:52:00 GMT

There are really only two questions the Senate Judiciary Committee needs to ask Alberto Gonzales today: 1. Why are you such a lying turkey? 2. When are you going to resign? But that would make for an unduly short hearing, so here are a few more

Rove Memory
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:32:00 GMT

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Iraq Plan More Nuanced Than Debate Portrays
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:32:00 GMT

The public debate over the Iraq supplemental funding bill fills much of the news media as just about every opinion maker and public official offers their view for or against it - views, which in their starkness, would seem to present little opportunity

Who'll Be GOP's 'Next Ronald Reagan' in '08 Presidential Race?
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:32:00 GMT

Who'll Be GOP's 'Next Ronald Reagan' in '08 Presidential Race? By Stuart RothenbergRoll Call Contributing Writer April 19, 2007 "We are looking for the next Ronald Reagan," said Gary Bauer recently about his party's search for a 2008 presidential

Bloomberg Shouldn't Rule Out '08 Option if Parties Polarize
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:32:00 GMT

To the idea of running for president in 2008, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says No, no and NO. And, granted, hed be a long shot if he changed his mind. Still, I hope he keeps his powder dry and his checkbook handy. Login| Subscribe to Rollcall.com

Garbage the next thing Daley trashes?
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:34:00 GMT

Garbage at City Hall isn't merely about smelly stuff in the alley, or the refuse container with a politician's name on it, but about power and patronage. And on Wednesday in his first election post-mortem after organized labor trounced several of his

Drinking Age Paradox
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:06:00 GMT

Public policy often illustrates the law of unintended consequences. Society's complexity -- multiple variables with myriad connections -- often causes the consequences of a policy to be contrary to, and larger than, the intended ones. So, when assessing

Earmarks As Usual
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:06:00 GMT

The Senate's Democratic leadership has a political problem with earmarks. Ever since Alaska's infamous 'Bridge to Nowhere' captured the public's imagination last year, they have been on record against the practice of pet spending projects being slipped

Our Worst Nightmare
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:06:00 GMT

leave us grieving and troubled. They also leave us -- especially those like me who lead colleges and universities -- with difficult questions to ask and, then, to try to answer. The most complex and emotional question is: Could this massacre have been

Our Enemy's Enemy
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:53:00 GMT

Perhaps the most consistent and widely accepted argument against withdrawal from Iraq has been the risk that al-Qaeda would take advantage of the vacuum to establish a durable base for exporting global jihad. But al-Qaeda has already declared an Islamic

Subsidizing Downward Mobility
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:08:00 GMT

Senior Democrats in the House and Senate are pushing a new, $3.5 billion social insurance program for workers who lose their jobs through no fault of their own. Yet unions and advocates for the unemployed are opposed to the proposal and have begged the

Coming to Collect
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:07:00 GMT

These are the questions arising from the IRS decision to outsource collections to private firms. Authorized by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, money was appropriated in the 2005 budget for the IRS to contract with private collection agencies to

The Rich and the Rest
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:08:00 GMT

In a democracy, there is something unsettling about great extremes of wealth and poverty. One question today is whether rich Americans are claiming too much of the economic pie. Look at the latest astonishing estimates from economists Emmanuel Saez of

Missing The Exit Signs
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:40:00 GMT

The central question in the debate over Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is one that no one seems to be asking: What is best for the institutions they head? If self-preservation trumps institutional concerns for

In the Reach of Madmen
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:40:00 GMT

In my day, Fort Dix, N.J., billed itself as the home of the Ultimate Weapon. That weapon, depicted by a heroic statue at the front gate, was the lowly infantryman armed only with his rifle and appearing to shout something like 'Follow me!' This was the

Beyond Reason
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:40:00 GMT

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Don't try to make sense of the horrific killings at Virginia Tech, at least not yet. Don't try to make those involved into archetypes -- the gun-wielding loner, the valiant young heroes, the dithering college officials -- and fit them

My Town's Pain
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:40:00 GMT

I wasn't born in Blacksburg, Va., but I lived there most of my life. If my husband hadn't dragged me to a bigger city -- 'where something actually happens and restaurants serve more than hamburgers' -- I'd be there still. Your home town defines you. It

Fineman: Gun Control? Don't Hold Your Breath
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:42:00 GMT

- I don't know what I was thinking. It seemed to me that the gruesome tragedy at Virginia Tech might prompt a new wave of legislation-not just talk but legislation-to limit the sale of handguns in America. But a few calls and e-mails to people who know

Cities For Sale
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:54:00 GMT

The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology and Development in American Urbanismby Jason Hackworth (Cornell University Press, 256 pages) If you live in or near a big city, you may not realize that neoliberalism is fiendishly taking over your environ. No,

Fineman: The Democrats' South Carolina Kingmaker
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:01:00 GMT

- Measured in terms of volume and visibility, Al Sharpton has pushed himself forward as the Democrats' kingmaker of the hour in the African-American community. But the '08 presidential candidates know who the real man to see is in the black community:

The Ills Behind That Slur
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:00:00 GMT

Why is it that I am experiencing a terrible bout of cynicism watching all the post-Imus hand-wringing? It's certainly not that I have any personal stake in . I never appeared on his show. I'm not being self-righteous. I was never invited. And that was a

The Face of Opportunism
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:46:00 GMT

If I had my way, Alberto Gonzales would wear a Mike Nifong mask when he testifies before the Senate. Nifong is the rogue prosecutor who indicted three members of the Duke University lacrosse team even though he should have known that they were not


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