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Will The Stimulus Do the Job? What Should we Do?

Danny Schechter | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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Danny Schechter

We have to recognize we do not live in a perfect world or a world of our choosing. There is no question that the government must act. But how -- and what is the likely impact?

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Frank Rich: Herbert Hoover Lives As The GOP Goes AWOL

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics

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ERE'S a bottom line to keep you up at night: The economy is falling faster than Washington can get moving. President Obama says his stimulus plan will...

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Frank Rich On Obama's Inauguration Speech: No Time For Poetry

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 02.24.2009 | Politics

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PRESIDENT Obama did not offer his patented poetry in his Inaugural Address. He did not add to his cache of quotations in Bartlett's. He did not recrea...

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Here's To Obama and All of Us: We've Come A Long, Long Way!

Sandy Goodman | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

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Sandy Goodman

I still remember the clicking of the marchers' heels as they moved into the Birmingham's business district, and, just then, the roar of a police motorcycle as it cut in front of King and Abernathy, halting the protest.

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Frank Rich On Obama's Inauguration: I Can't Believe This Moment Is Here

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 02.17.2009 | Politics

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I cannot testify to what black Americans feel as our nation celebrates the inauguration of our first African-American president. But I can speak for m...

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Frank Rich: We've Had Eight Years Of Madoffs

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics

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THREE days after the world learned that $50 billion may have disappeared in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, The Times led its front page of Dec. 14 with...

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NEW MEDIA--FLASHBACK: Frank Rich: "The Web, In Its Infinite Iterations, Is Eroding All 20th-Century Media"

Posted 02.09.2009 | Media

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Following the Democratic National Convention last August, New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote a piece in which he captured the profound transfor...

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Frank Rich: A President Forgotten But Not Gone

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 02.03.2009 | Politics

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WE like our failed presidents to be Shakespearean, or at least large enough to inspire Oscar-worthy performances from magnificent tragedians like Fran...

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What to Expect from an Intelligent President

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics

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Kathleen Reardon

Brace yourself. It's going get rocky soon. We are about to have a very bright man as our president. And we've been away from that territory for a very long time.

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Time for Action

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

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Aubrey Sarvis

Obama has long been a supporter of lifting "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," but since the election, fairness, justice, and civil rights for the LGBT community seems to be delayed.

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What Would Obama Do If Obama Was Mad At Obama About Rick Warren?

David Quigg | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics

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David Quigg

Obama would move on -- he'd refuse to be distracted. He'd brush the dirt off his shoulder and immediately return his focus to winning.

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Frank Rich Scolds Obama Over Rick Warren: 'You're Likable Enough, Gay People'

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 01.27.2009 | Politics

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IN his first press conference after his re-election in 2004, President Bush memorably declared, "I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, ...

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Frank Rich: Two Cheers For Rod Blagojevich

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 01.13.2009 | Politics

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ROD BLAGOJEVICH is the perfect holiday treat for a country fighting off depression. He gift-wraps the ugliness of corruption in the mirthful garb of f...

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Frank Rich: The Brightest Are Not Always The Best

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

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IN 1992, David Halberstam wrote a new introduction for the 20th-anniversary edition of "The Best and the Brightest," his classic history of the hubris...

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Jason Linkins

Frank Rich Cited For Excellence In Embedded Link Provision

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.03.2009 | Media

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It's worth mentioning that Rich is the ONLY op-ed columnist at the Times that bothers to adhere to this practice: "Not Brooks nor Cohen nor Collins nor Dowd nor Friedman nor Herbert nor Kristof nor Kristol nor Krugman."

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Frank Rich: Conservative Crackup Great Entertainment

NY Times | Frank Rich | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics

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Election junkies in acute withdrawal need suffer no longer. Though the exciting Obama-McCain race is over, the cockfight among the losers has only jus...

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Frank Rich On The Conservative Crackup: "The Cockfight Among The Losers Has Only Just Begun"

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics

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ELECTION junkies in acute withdrawal need suffer no longer. Though the exciting Obama-McCain race is over, the cockfight among the losers has only jus...

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White Pundits: Make Some Black Friends Before Opining on Obama Effect

Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media

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Gail Vida Hamburg

In her Nov 8, '08 column, Maureen Dowd attempted to elucidate the stunning new history of our young country by talking about what Obama meant to African Americans.

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America-Elect, Now It's Time for Yes, We Will

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

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Dr. Susan Corso

We believed in the potential of that change during the presidential election cycle. Now can we believe in our own power to effect change by making a commitment to it?

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Frank Rich Was Right

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics

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Thomas de Zengotita

I have been blogging ominously for months about American racism and how it could undercut Obama's lead in the polls come election day. I was wrong. Frank Rich was right.

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Jason Linkins

Five Key Takeaways From Frank Rich's Column

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.10.2008 | Media

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I'm just glad to see Rich taking the election results and demonstrating how many assumptions about the American electorate can now be put to rest.

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Frank Rich: The Week Americans Reclaimed Their Country

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

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ON the morning after a black man won the White House, America's tears of catharsis gave way to unadulterated joy. Our nation was still in the same di...

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Frank Rich: Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics

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AND so: just how far have we come? As a rough gauge last week, I watched a movie I hadn't seen since it came out when I was a teenager in 1967. Back ...

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Frank Rich: In Defense Of White Americans

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics

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IT seems like a century ago now, but it was only in 2005 that a National Journal poll of Beltway insiders predicted that George Allen, then a popular ...

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John McCain Just Can't Quit Bush

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics

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OLD Mr. Straight Talk has become so shaky a speaker that when he does talk straight, it's startling. On Wednesday night, John McCain mustered exactly ...

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