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365 Days and Still Thanking Jesus

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Negotiation, Governance, Afghanistan, American Democracy, Peacebuilding, President Obama, Narrative, Middle East, Cold War, Defense Budget, Government, Facilitation, Military, Climate Change, One Year Later, Conflict Resolution, Barack Obama, Timidity to Govern, Politics News
Lorelei Kelly

In looking at Obama's first year, we must not fall into the typical trap that pits idealism against pragmatism, where the virtuous line up against the effective, and the purists fight the negotiators.

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Myth Understood

Steven Weber | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fox News, Roger Ailes, Law and Order, Barack Obama, Las Vegas, Republicans, American Democracy, Politics News
Steven Weber

One good thing the Republicans have accomplished, albeit accidentally, is the lifting of the veil from the big, ugly machine of American democracy.

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Health Reform the American Way

Michael Brenner | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Individual Mandate Plan, Public Option, Obama Health Care, Health Care, American Democracy, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Michael Brenner

We vaunt American democracy as a stellar model for the world. The bizarre spectacle now on display over health care "reform" is hardly an advertisement from our prime export product.

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The Term "Man Caused Disasters" Sounds Weak, but the "War on Terror" Has Always Been Weaker

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: Drugs, Mexican Drug Cartel, Osama Bin Laden Capture, War on Terrorism, Ronald Reagan, War on Terror, Osama Bin Laden, Global Contingency Operations, Civil Rights Legislation, U.S., American Democracy, War on Terror Oxymoron, World, World News, Politics News, Arabs, Middle East, Homeland Security Secretary, Subnational Groups, Terrorists, Overseas Contigency Operations, Terror, The Homeland, Clandestine Agents Obama Administration, African Americans, Mexico's Drug War, Obama 44, Homeland Security, Politics, Man Caused Disasters, Mexico, Bush 43, U.S. International Law, America's Psyche, Republican Clerics, Barack Obama, Warfare, War on Poverty, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Central Command, Muslims, Racial Profiling, Lyndon B. Johnson, Janet Napolitano, Republicans, War on Drugs, Poverty, Patriotism, Nationalism, World News
Yvonne R. Davis

President Obama knows the United States has been losing these wars and also knows the terrible impact these wars have had on a group of people when they are labeled and targeted.

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Follow the Artists to Our New Democracy

Tanene Allison | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Langston Hughes, Art, Participatory Democracy, Elizabeth Alexander Inaugural Poem, Elizabeth Alexander, American Democracy, June Jordan, Democracy, Artists, Obama, Patti Smith, Justin Bond, Barack Obama, Politics News
Tanene Allison

It was a poet who gave our nation, and new President, the words that led to our visioning of how this time of potential and possibility could become real.

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The New Know Nothings

Larry Beinhart | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush, Know Nothings, Mccain, America First, Lobbyists, Immigration, George Bush, Special Interests, Palin, Republicans, Dick Cheney, American Democracy, The American Party, Bush Administration, Willam Poole, Bill the Butcher, Dwight Eisenhower, Abraham Lincoln, Order of the Star Spangled Banner, Nelson Rockefeller, Politics News
Larry Beinhart

The Republican Party likes to remember Abraham Lincoln. And so they should. It's a nice memory and brings credit to them. But there is another strand that runs through their history.

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The Politics of Flattery

Edwin Eisendrath | Posted 10.11.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Republican Convention, Voters, Abortion, Socrates, McCain Torture Speech, Rod Blagojevich, George W. Bush, American Democracy, Sarah Palin, Palin Moose, Mccain Torture, Drill Baby Drill, Athens, Mccain Speech, Athenian Democracy, Chicago News
Edwin Eisendrath

The biggest question for Americans is not whether we like Barack or John, Sarah or Joe better. It is whether we have the character to recognize flattery when we hear it, and to stay focused on what matters.

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