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Robert F. Kennedy: What if He Had Lived? -- A Golden Age That Never Was

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

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Kennedy's death came when the world was on the cusp of transformation -- between authoritarian societies and social and political justice. Much of that change was stalled in the US for decades to come.

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40 Years Ago Today, The Police Tried to Kill Me At Columbia University

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

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The real legacy of the 1968 turmoil was the idea that young people and students had the obligation to challenge authority, to question assumptions... and could succeed.

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Friday Talking Points [25] -- Place Your Bets On The Democratic Race!

Chris Weigant | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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We haven't done a contest here in a while, so I'm going to open the betting window today on the outcome of the Democratic race. To play, just post a ...

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Deja Vu: 2008 as 1968

Stephen B. Cohen | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

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The 2008 superdelegates, like the unelected delegates in 1968, once again could split the party and help elect a Republican.

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Candidates' Advisers Fault Obama Camp

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Prominent supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama on Sunday both faulted Obama's campaign for allowing a retired gene...

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The Tao Of Iowa Caucus Voters

Beverly Davis | Posted 12.31.2007 | Home

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DES MOINES -- Lynn Sweet, the big dog political columnist for the Chicago Sun Times - fond of wearing clogs on the campaign trial, snapping photograph...

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