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From Enmity to Comity: Restoring Civility and Pride to American Life

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Robert Fuller

Calls for civility have not worked, either with the public or the partisan commentators who model disdain and contempt for their followers. Why is hate resonating with the American public?

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New York Review: The Blog (Preview)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books

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The New York Review of Books, our content partner, Is teasing its new site by giving us a peek at their brand new blog section today. As usual it is f...

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Why Can't We Just Say "Obama, We're Proud of You?"

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

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Joe The Nerd Ferraro

The Nobel being awarded to Obama is the world saying loud and clear that the right wing zealots in the United States are out-of-line with everybody else on the planet.

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Left, Right & Center: Obama's Nobel, Health Care Vote, The $ is Down

Huff Radio | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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Huff Radio

The Nobel Peace Prize has been, stunningly and unexpectedly, given to President Barack Obama. Is it a case of unrealistic expectations? Will it help o...

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Nobel Jury Defends Obama Decision: We Disagree That He Has Done Nothing

AP | IAN MacDOUGALL and KARL RITTER | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

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OSLO — One judge noted with surprise that President Barack Obama "didn't look particularly happy" at being named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate....

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Obama Sweeps Nobel Prizes

Peter Owen Nelson | Posted 10.12.2009 | Comedy

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Peter Owen Nelson

After President Obama was awarded the Peace Prize, I received an invitation from Chairman Jagland of the Nobel Prize Committee to live-blog their proceedings.

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Barack's Nobel: A Symbolic Gesture of Hope to the World's Youth

Scott Atran | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

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Scott Atran

The award of the Peace Prize to Obama is a symbolic gesture to youth all over the developing world who have a new hero. Perhaps the ability to simply inspire hope now indeed merits a Nobel.

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Peace and Politics

Paula Gordon | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

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Paula Gordon

My first thought on hearing the news was to rejoice. My second thought was anticipation of the squeals, whines and bellyaches that America's extreme wrong-wing noisemakers invariably shriek.

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GOP Pisses Off World; Wins Prize!

Steven Weber | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

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Steven Weber

While bestowing laurels upon Obama may strike some as premature, what is long overdue are the consequences for the right's assault on reason and sanity, consequences which have a satisfying irony.

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Friday Talking Points: Is Opt-Out The Answer?

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The plan isn't going into effect until 2013. Think you're tired of TV ads and screaming folks at town hall meetings now? Picture a more local version of that for the next four years -- not a pretty sight.

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Obama and the Nobel: Just Bizarre

Jesse Larner | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

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Jesse Larner

Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.

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Obama's Nobel Honors His Dignitarian Politics

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

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Robert Fuller

Obama got the prize not for doing, but for being. Not for making peace, but for exemplifying something new on the world stage -- the politics of dignity.

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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: Herta Muller

AP | KARL RITTER and MALIN RISING | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

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STOCKHOLM — Americans Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth join Israel's Amos Oz at the top of the buzz surrounding the Nobel Prize in literature, ...

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Herta Mueller Wins Nobel Prize In Literature

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

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The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded this morning to Herta Müller, a Romanian-born German poet and novelist, "who," stated the Swedish Acad...

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Wall Street: Too Big To Regulate

Garrett Johnson | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

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Garrett Johnson

How can the Treasury, White House, and Congress be so tone deaf to calls to stop the massive give-away to the same people who got us into this mess?

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What Makes Us Wise?

Julia Moulden | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living

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Julia Moulden

Is thinking about wisdom part of getting older? Lately, I've been wondering what wisdom is. Here's how my dictionary defines it, "Understanding what...

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Timothy Geithner and his Father's Legacy in Microcredit

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business

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Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Geithner grew up in Zimbabwe, India and Thailand. It would have been impossible for him to not have seen what true poverty is and how his father was helping to establish part of the solution.

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Lame Legacy

John Feffer | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

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John Feffer

With only one week left in what 61% of U.S. historians have called the worst presidency ever, it is time for one last, squirming appraisal of the damage done.

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Poverty in America: The Problems and Solutions

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

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Vivian Norris de Montaigu

We need to make communities strong again. Our local money does not need to be mixed in with some guy's hedge fund abstract tranche of nothing all to make a fee for some banker in New York.

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"A Planetary Emergency"

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN and LISA LEFF | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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For years, former Vice President Al Gore and a host of climate scientists were belittled and, worst of all, ignored for their message about how dire g...

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