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Our National Journey? Get Out A Map

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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Jeffrey Shaffer

While media attention in Iraq and Afghanistan focuses on car bombings and combat casualties, other disturbing events in the region are slipping through the news cycle almost unnoticed.

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Command and Control?

Jamie Malanowski | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Jamie Malanowski

At a time when the country is virtually pleading with him to exert command and control, he has yielded that role to congressional partisans that the public doesn't quite know and almost certainly doesn't trust.

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Obama on my Lap(top)

Kate Southwood | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media

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Kate Southwood

Obama's use of the Internet indicates not only political savvy and an understanding of the Internet's vast power, it suggests a crucial understanding of how Roosevelt succeeded.

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We Need Action

Louise Mirrer | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

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Louise Mirrer

Make no mistake: those famous black-and-white photographs of breadlines and Dust Bowl migrants have been vividly brought back to life by CNN and Fox.

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Obama's Updated Fireside Chats, Sports Analogies, and Change in Washington

Rip Empson | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

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Rip Empson

By encouraging an intersection of government and technology, the U.S. might be able to re-claim what was once a venerable tradition of innovation and ingenuity.

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Detroit's Rebirth as the "Arsenal for America's Future"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 12.17.2008 | Business

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Raymond J. Learsy

What a boon it would be to have a renaissance of our historic "Detroit Arsenal," with our government and the automobile industry working together once again on a program critical to the nation's well-being.

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