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A Plea to President-elect Obama: Adoption is the Option

Richard C. Thompson | Posted 12.06.2008 | Living

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During your acceptance speech last night, which was a great and compassionate one, you told your daughters that you are getting them a puppy for the White House. Adoption is the option.

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A Night When The People Holding Open the Doors Were Happier Than The Ones Walking Through Them

Naomi Klein | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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I was in D.C. last night -- at 10:30 pm I happened to walk past a very stuffy private club, one that as far as I can tell, is populated exclusively by hardcore Republican men in their later years.

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Paris Notebook: Slumber Party for Obama

Elizabeth Bard | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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I did not fully understand the power of our inspired cliche; until I moved to a place - even one as civilized as France - where they are not born with it .

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Defying Gravity

Jon Klane | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

I'm experiencing something unbelievable, transformational, surreal. It occurs to me that the last time I had this feeling was on the morning of 9/11. Only this time, the towers are going back up.

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Voting Day in Philly: Historic and Proud

SaraKay Smullens | Posted 12.06.2008 | Home

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Without exception the people we took to the polls carried the elegance of the history they knew they were making.

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Yes We Did! But There Is a Lot More to Do

Mitchell Bard | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Obama has not hit a home run; he has merely earned the right to step into the batter's box.

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Joy, Cautious Optimism Permeate Arab Media

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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"Americans Chose Change" was the striking blue headline in Wednesday's An-Nahar daily of Lebanon.

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The Tech Presidency: What Obama's Victory Means for Our Wired Future

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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In today's very special "The Day After Yesterday" edition of Wilshire & Washington, Zach Tumin of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government joins our hosts to talk technology in the new administration.

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Election Shows States Moving Forward with Progressive Agenda

Joel Barkin | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

The table is set to wipe away the legacy of decades of failed conservative ideology, but what becomes of that opportunity is up to us.

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One Giant Step

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

We fought. We hoped. We worked. We cried. We panicked. We debated. We held our breath. It's not hyperbolic to say that we helped shift the course of the world.

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France Celebrates Obama's Big Win

Jessica Roy | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Last night, American expatriates and our interested French brethren gathered to celebrate, drink champagne and dance with their necks craned painfully so as to have an eye constantly on CNN.

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Wall Street Journal: Racism is a Myth

Mark Winston Griffith | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Perhaps the biggest threat to the social progress of this country is to blind oneself to how much further we have to go before racism as a barrier to achievement is a thing of the past.

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Making it Work

Jake Goldman | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

A man plastered in Cynthia McKinney stickers poked me right on the Obama button fixed to my coat. "Hold him accountable. Stop the war," he said and dashed out of the car and up the stairs.

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Wide Awake in America

Chez Pazienza | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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What we witnessed last night and what we're still feeling the aftershocks of this morning is, in a word, history.

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Let Bygones (Not) Be Bygones

Marty Kaplan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

What an insult it is to the idea of accountability -- this notion that responsibility for the ugly emotions unleashed by demagoguery this campaign season is wiped away by a concession speech.

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The End of the Ignorance

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

It took generations for the old guard to die out and for the U.S. to start growing better people. And now they've finally come of age to vote. We can begin to wave farewell to our ignorant past.

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A Winning Night for Women

Cecile Richards | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

It is hard to overstate the landslide victory for women last night. For too long, our health and rights have been used as a political battering ram.

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Obama: From "Shouldn't" to "Did"

Rupert Russell | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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It is time to throw out the old playbook for one simple reason. It was wrong. Obama wasn't your average Democratic candidate, but then again, America isn't your average country, either.

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Celebrating Obama's Victory in Kabul

Asma Nemati | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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November 4, 2008 Today I experienced probably the most exciting event in my life; elections. Voting in a presidential election for the first time in...

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Americans Embrace Pro-Education, Pro-Prevention, Pro-Choice Values in Historic Election

Scott Swenson | Posted 12.06.2008 | Living

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Social conservatives have a simple choice to make. They can recognize the US as a pluralistic nation with diverse beliefs and work with people they disagree with, or marginalize themselves.

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Partying for Obama in Phnom Penh

Elena Lesley | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Chants of "Obama! Obama!" and "Yes we can!" echoed through the popular Phnom Penh restaurant, while a supporter sporting an Obama mask worked the crowd.

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The Vision of the Hip-Hop Generation

Russell Simmons | Posted 12.06.2008 | Entertainment

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The election of Barack Obama, a resounding progressive voice, is a clear reflection of hip-hop politics, and a beautiful testament to the American collective consciousness that is flowering.

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Tears For Country

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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On Monday afternoon a day before the election, after placing Obama-Biden signs on doors in Northeast Philadelphia for nine hours, I sat down on a stranger's stoop, by myself, and cried.

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A Transformational Presidency?

Katrina vanden Heuvel | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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With the country at an ideological watershed, Obama has a historic opportunity to reshape the ruling paradigm of American politics.

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President Obama: Bad News For the New Atheists and Other Fundamentalists

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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There is no way to understand President elect Obama's victory as anything less than the start of not just a monumental political change but a spiritual revolution as well.

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