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It May Take 27 Years to Undo the Damage Glenn Beck Caused in 27 Months

Will Bunch | Posted 06.08.2011

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Will Bunch

You'll probably hear a lot about how Beck coarsened the political debate, but I think the wreckage is a lot more substantive, to actual policies that affect Americans every day.

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Michele Bachmann's Brilliant Move

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brent Budowsky

Michele Bachmann's idea of giving a second Republican reply to the State of the Union was politically brilliant. Democrats, progressives and real populists would be well-advised to understand why.

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Is Glenn Beck The Publishing Industry's Biggest Hope?

Daily Finance | Posted 05.25.2011

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Earlier this month, Glenn Beck did what precious few authors have tried and failed to do over the past four weeks: unseat Stieg Larsson from the top o...

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Why the National Debate is Still Conducted on the Right's Terms

Peter Daou | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Daou

In the inchoate anti-Obama rage manifesting itself today, we're seeing the result of years of radical rhetoric on the part of talk show hosts and pundits like Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, O'Reilly and Coulter.

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Milk, The Biopic and The Lesson

Josh Bolotsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Josh Bolotsky

Milk manages to balance the needs of two very different films in its running time. It is, first of all, a superb biopic, as well as a meditation on the responsibility activists have to the people.

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