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Yanqui, Don't Go Home! Race, Gender, Oil and Honduras

By Carl M. Cannon
Too bad we're fixated on Michael Jackson (not my thing) and Sarah Palin (mea culpa) because the power play taking place right now ...

THE RUNDOWN

7/8/09 at 11:42 AM

Tactical Nuclear Weapons, the Menace No One Is Talking About

By  David Wood

All hail the U.S. and Russian negotiators who begin work this week on ...

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7/8/09 at 5:00 AM

Sarah 'Barracuda' Palin and the Piranhas of the Press

By  Carl M. Cannon

Sarah Palin's rambling abdication speech was hard to follow, let alone ...

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7/7/09 at 5:00 AM

Why Americans Love to Hate Nancy Pelosi

By  Jill Lawrence

She's a tough, well-organized manager with a stable family life and a ...

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7/6/09 at 11:14 AM

What Michelle Obama's Staffers Earn

By  Lynn Sweet

The Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, on the shores of Lake Michigan, ...

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7/3/09 at 6:02 PM

Sarah Palin to Step Down as Governor of Alaska

By  Melinda Henneberger

"Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay; it's Independence Day.'' – ...

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7/2/09 at 10:32 AM

Palin E-Mails Suggest Tension With McCain Staffers

By  David Knowles

In the wake of Vanity Fair's scathing exposé detailing tensions between ...

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7/9/09 at 6:01 PM

Ginsburg, Roe and Population Control

By  Helena Andrews

Like Ria, I was happy to hear Ruth Bader Ginsburg announce herself a product of affirmative action. In her interview with The New York Times Magazine, Justice ...

7/9/09 at 5:39 PM

The CIA Lied; Maybe Pelosi Was Right About Waterboarding

By  Ria Misra

I'll admit it. When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she wasn't informed of waterboarding, and in fact was lied to by the CIA about the practice, my journalistic ...

7/9/09 at 5:39 PM

Obama Approval Falls as Unemployment Rises

By  Emily Miller

A new poll released Thursday shows that President Obama's approval rating slipped following news that the country lost another 467,000 jobs last ...

7/9/09 at 8:20 AM

Nevada Politics: Reid, Ensign, Gibbons and the Stuff of Great Drama

By  Andrew Clark

Nevada's 2010 midterm elections may be in line to win some sort of drama award. With ...

7/8/09 at 9:16 AM

Lessons Learned From the NYC Gay Pride Parade

By  Sara Nommensen

"This younger generation takes itself very seriously," the announcer proclaimed over ...

7/6/09 at 4:54 PM

Recession vs. College Athletics -- Game Over?

By  Lindsey Hough

When sophomore swimmer Sarah Boyd entered the sports center at Dickinson College last ...

7/6/09 at 7:00 AM

Barack Obama and the Little Memoirs That Could

By: Robert Schmuhl

As the last presidential campaign gathered steam in 2007 and barreled full throttle through 2008, I kept saying to anyone who'd listen: Polls don't tell the whole story. Keep an eye on the best-seller list. Besides raising money, hiring a staff and divining a strategy, every serious White House ...

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7/5/09 at 7:59 PM

It's One, Two, Three Strikes You're Out of Money

By: Walter Shapiro

Our story begins -- as such stories must -- with a 6-year-old boy, a father and a long-ago first baseball game at the original incarnation of the original Yankee Stadium. It was Saturday afternoon, Sept. 12, 1953, and my father and I (along with 9,000 other fans) got to watch the World Series-bound ...

7/8/09 at 8:31 AM

G8 Is Enough: Babes, Berlusconi and Other Earth-Shaking Concerns

By  Bob Franken

body {margin:8px} .tr-field {font:normal x-small arial} Things to watch for at the G8 summit: Who will accompany Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who's hosting the affair? ...

7/8/09 at 5:00 AM

Obama to World: We're Back and Ready to Ratify

By  Jill Lawrence

In Russia and Italy this week, President Obama is taking steps on nuclear weapons and climate change that are in line with his pledge to rebuild U.S. alliances around the world. It's a window on what we could see in the next four to eight years: The birth of new treaties and the revival of old ones that have long been stalled, some for decades. ...

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7/5/09 at 3:31 PM

Will Benedict XVI's New Encyclical Matter?

By  Jeffrey Weiss

In the days leading up to this week's scheduled release of Pope Benedict XVI's latest encyclical, there's been a quickening of speculation about what it will say. We know the name: Caritas in Veritate ("Charity in Truth"). And we know generally that it will be about social topics, including the effect of the global economy, environmental issues and ...

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7/2/09 at 9:36 AM

Mark Sanford, Infidelity and Morality

By  Jeffrey Weiss

Almost as amazing as the fact that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford just won't shut up is how he seems to be trying to justify his infidelity. It's hard to believe that anybody could have so quickly toppled John Edwards as the modern politician with the highest "ick" factor. But Sanford did it with a single quote: ...

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7/1/09 at 7:14 PM

Obama Hugs Cancer Victim at Health Town Hall

By: Jill Lawrence

Your day in health care: President Obama held a partially online health care town hall in suburban Virginia. Part that dragged the most: His very long, statistics-laden opening statement -- so long ...

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7/2/09 at 3:00 PM

New Jobless Numbers: Another Bad Month, Another Challenge for Obama

By  Walter Shapiro

The dismal June unemployment numbers are a reminder that sometimes the economy is governed by the gravitational principle: That which is down, stays down – even with a stimulus. ...

6/29/09 at 5:00 AM

Is It Obama's Economy Yet?

By  Carl M. Cannon

Someday quite soon, like maybe tomorrow, this mess of an economy will belong to Barack Obama and his administration. He will own it, not his predecessor. This is as it must be – we only have one ...

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