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Rumble in Little Rhody: Patrick Kennedy Takes On The Bishop And The Church's Moral Myopia

Bennet Kelley | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Health Care Reform, Abortion, Catholic Church, Rhode Island, Patrick Kennedy Communion, Separation of Church and State, Pro Choice Politicians, Patrick Kennedy, Providence Bishop Tobin, Pro-Choice, Politics News
Bennet Kelley

Providence Bishop Tobin's barring Patrick Kennedy from receiving communion is an assault on the separation of church and state now enshrined in the First Amendment and the Kennedy legacy itself.

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No JFK Moment For Obama On Afghanistan

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, President Obama Afghanistan, Cuban Missile Crisis, War in Afghanistan, John F. Kennedy, President Obama, Robert Kennedy, Vietnam, Military-Escalation-Afghanistan, Generals, Jfk, World News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

There's the depth of American military involvement, commitment, and the entrenched thinking that Afghanistan is the front line in the war on terrorism. Obama shares this thinking with the generals.

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Annals of Unsolved Crime: The Oswald Mystery

Edward Jay Epstein | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Cia, Jack Ruby, President Kennedy, Kennedy Assassination, Jfk, John F. Kennedy Assassination, Fbi, Cuba, Soviet Union, Politics News
Edward Jay Epstein

The endless tangle of bullets, trajectories, wounds, time sequences and inconsistent testimony that has surrounded the JFK assassination will probably never be satisfactorily resolved.

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Mad Men: Three Seasons On and Looking Forward

William Bradley | Posted 11.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mad Men, Bill Clinton, 1960s, Jon Hamm, Advertising, January Jones, Matthew Weiner, Hillary Clinton, Don Draper, John F. Kennedy, Pop Art, Rothko, Entertainment News
William Bradley

I've been thinking about the arc of the series, from 1960 to 1963. Where has the series been, where is it now, and where might it be going with creator Matthew Weiner?

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Mr. President, 'Change' Is Your 'New Frontier'

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Restoration, Bush Doctrine, John F. Kennedy, John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Public Policy Polling, 1961, Kennedy, Boston, 1960, Ted Widmer, The Death of Conservatism, Democratic Party, 2012, Change, 2010, 2008, New Frontier, George W. Bush, Jfk, Republican Party, William v. Shannon, 1984, Jack Kennedy, John Winthrop, Mario Cuomo, Massachusetts, Democrats, Charles Blow, Barack Obama, Tom Jensen, The New Frontier, Ark of the Liberties, Republicans, Sam Tanenhaus, Politics News
John R. Bohrer

The Republicans' strategy of slowing down change couldn't be more evident than in the perpetually extending health care debate. But they have been successful at promulgating the idea that they, too, are touting change.

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The Shah Appointment at USAID

Mira Kamdar | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Usaid, Clinton Global Initiative, Food Crisis, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Obama, Hillary Clinton, United States, Cold War, Rockefeller Foundation, Rajiv Shah, Gates Foundation, Foreign Policy, Green News
Mira Kamdar

With the appointment of Rajiv Shah to head USAID, it's deja-vu all over again for the Obama administration. Welcome to Camelot redux, the 1960's re-engineered for the 2010s.

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Church and State in JFK's America

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, New York Times, Patrick J. Kennedy, Jfk, Thomas J. Tobin, Separation of Church and State, Vatican, Politics News
Geoffrey R. Stone

Whatever happened to the America that JFK believed in? The America in which "no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials"?

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What Obama Is Up Against

Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Central Intelligence Agency, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Military Industrial Complex, Harry Truman, President Obama, George W. Bush, Obama, Bob Woodward, Bush Administration Torture, Robert Gates, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, National Security, Gerald Ford, Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Oversight, Fdr, Hamid Karzai, Bill Clinton, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Dwight Eisenhower, Cia, Military Spending, Stanley McChrystal, Jimmy Carter, Prescott Bush, Allen Dulles, Lyndon Johnson, Iraq, Torture, Politics News
Russ Baker

We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.

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Too Soon To Tell? Judging A President's Progress

The New York Review of Books | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Nyr, Iran, Arthur Schlesinger, Presidency, Barack Obama, Garry Wills, Hoover, Lincoln, New York Review, One Year Later, Abraham Lincoln, The New Deal, Racism, Jimmy Carter, Fdr, Iraq, Health Care, Jfk, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Books News

The New York Review of Books Huffington Post: At the anniversary of the election of Barack Obama, we're taking a close look at how he's done and what...

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It's November 22, 1963 On Mad Men: HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Mad Men, Betty Draper, Don Draper, Matthew Weiner, JFK Assassination, 1960s, Entertainment News
William Bradley

I've always wondered how Mad Men's writers and producers would handle one of the most critical and shattering events in American history, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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The Kennedy Assassination: New Details About the Transfer of Power

Steven M. Gillon | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Politics, Lbj, Vice President, Warren Commission, Kennedy, Kennedy Dead, Kennedy Assassination, Jackie Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jfk, President, JFK Assassination, Books News
Steven M. Gillon

Exactly when did doctors give up their efforts to save Kennedy's life? And when did Lyndon Johnson learn that JFK was dead?

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A New Wrinkle in the JFK Assassination Story

Steven M. Gillon | Posted 10.30.2009 | Books

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Kennedy Assassination, Lyndon Johnson, Dallas, Books News
Steven M. Gillon

A recently declassified oral history by Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh, President Kennedy's military aide on the Dallas trip, sheds new light on the critical hours after the shooting.

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Gore Vidal Knocks Obama, Says "Anti-Semitism" Got "Poor Polanski"

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books

Read More: John F. Kennedy, The Atlantic, Barack Obama, John Meroney, Roman Polanski, Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal, Jfk, The Atlantic Monthly, Polanski, Hillary Clinton, Books News

To mark the recent publication of Gore Vidal's memoir, Snapshots in History's Glare, The Atlantic's John Meroney interviewed the American literary and...

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"Lessons in Disaster": If Obama Caves to the Pentagon, He's No Jack Kennedy

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Vietnam, Lessons in Disaster, Afghanistan Escalation, Afghanistan, Washington Post, Joe Biden, Seymour Hersh, Wall Street Journal, Afghanistan War, Gordon Goldstein, Barack Obama, Mcchrystal, World News
Robert Naiman

You don't have to be a dove to understand what President Kennedy understood: putting U.S. troops on the ground somewhere doesn't automatically make you more powerful.

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Mad Men: "Wee Small Hours" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 10.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1960s, Martin Luther King, Conrad Hilton, Jon Hamm, Bryan Batt, Sal Romano, Birmingham Bombing, Roger Sterling, Matthew Weiner, Betty Draper, Advertising, John F. Kennedy, Don Draper, January Jones, John Slattery, Mad Men, Langston Hughes, I Have a Dream Speech, Civil Rights Movement, March on Washington, Entertainment News
William Bradley

Listening to Martin Luther King on the murder of four girls in a Birmingham church, Betty opines that maybe this civil rights thing is premature. But Betty should know that a dream deferred can dry up like a raisin in sun.

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The Indictment of America

Russell Simmons | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Hip Hop, Martin Luther King, Rush Limbaugh, Hope, Russell Simmons, Global Grind, Fox News, Nobel Peace Prize, Glenn Beck, Mahatma Gandhi, Barack Obama, Obama Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Campaign, Politics News
Russell Simmons

I'm really afraid that our beloved country, America, is standing on its last wobbly legs. I'm worried that the karmic effects of our negative actions will finally come home to roost.

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The Real Reason Obama Deserves the Nobel Win

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Confederacy, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Clinton, Obama Presidency, Obama Nobel, Nobel Peace Prize, Race, Democrats, 2008 Election, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Caroline Kennedy, Politics News
Ali A. Rizvi

The impact of Obama's election stretches far beyond even what Martin Luther King, Jr. called the "fierce urgency of now." It goes beyond race and beyond policy issues.

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Obama Is "Incompetent" and the U.S. Is a "Madhouse": An Exclusive Interview With Gore Vidal

Johann Hari | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Gore Vidal, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Entertainment News
Johann Hari

Vidal holidayed with the Kennedys, cruised for men with Tennessee Williams, was urged to run for Congress by Eleanor Roosevelt, and co-wrote some of the most iconic Hollywood films.

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Splitsville

Steven Weber | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligent Design, Conservatives, Liberals, Public Discourse, John F. Kennedy, Fox News, Tea Party, Fair and Balanced, Politics News
Steven Weber

Avowed liberals consider themselves to be loyal to the truth while die-hard conservatives seem only to be loyal. Somewhere in the middle lies the perfect American.

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The Secret of Conspiracy

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy, Memory, Conspiracy, Assassination, Jfk, JFK Assasination Conspiracies, Error, Media News
Michael Kaplan

Just as we want our success to be the result of skill, not luck, we prefer to be the victims of conspiracy rather than chance.

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Pain Which Cannot Forget

Trish Kinney | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Kurt Cobain, Barack Obama, Marvin Gaye, Robert Kennedy, Politics News
Trish Kinney

Some people just seem called to help us understand ourselves, no matter what the cost, whether they be musicians or that rare politician or leader who makes us believe in something -- in anything.

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An Open Letter To Our Leaders

Chris Campbell | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, House of Representatives, Bill Clinton, Hope, President Obama, Senate, Volunteering, Martin Luther King, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, John Edwards, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Al Gore, Health Care, Politics News
Chris Campbell

When I saw the "Baucus Bill" today, I finally couldn't take it anymore. I could no longer fight for a party that I barely even recognized.

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Taylor Branch To Reveal "The Clinton Tapes"

GQ | Wil S. Hylton | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, 1964 Civil Rights Bill, Monica Lewinsky, Hillary Rodham Clinton, George W. Bush, Martin Luther King Jr., George Mcgovern, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Whitewater, Taylor Branch, Katherine Graham, Lyndon Johnson, Politics News

It has been nearly forty years since three young Democratic activists named Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham, and Taylor Branch moved into a small apartme...

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Mad Men: "The Fog" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 11.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1960s, Roger Sterling, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Pete Campbell, Advertising, Betty Draper, John F. Kennedy, Don Draper, Matthew Weinter, January Jones, Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Mad Men, Peggy Olsen, Vincent Kartheiser, Indiana Jones, Elizabeth Moss, Beatles, Mad Men the Fog, Mad Men Review, Entertainment News
William Bradley

Five major plot developments in this episode -- named for the culmination of Betty Draper's pregnancy -- drive the action forward as we enter the middle of the season.

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