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Politics on the Couch: Splitting and Reparation -- Part One

Justin Frank | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Splitting, Fathers Day, Obama, Mccain, Post 9/11, Reverend Wright, Race Relations, Reparation, Barack Obama, Politics News

Some voters are passionately drawn to Obama because he not only promises change from divisive Washington politics, but also because he evokes infantile yearnings to live without psychic division.

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Why We Stopped Seeing Best Picture Nominees -- Part III

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 01.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Post-9/11, The Academy Awards, Breaking Entertainment News, Box Office, Spider-Man, Entertainment News

The Academy Award's best picture nominees feel small, timid and dry, while the box office smashes feel big, bold and dopey. There's got to be some kind of middle ground. We used to be able to find it.

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Is This How We Win Friends?

William Fisher | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Holy Land Foundation, David Cole, Executive Order, Homeland Security, Terrorism Prosecutions, Humanitarian Law Project, Material Support Law, Patriot Act, Center for Constitutional Rights, Liberty City Seven, Omb Watch. Government Spending, Rafil Dhafir, George Pataki, American Muslims, Post 9/11, Department of Justice, Anti-Muslim Bias, Alberto Gonzales, Politics News

We need to stop substituting post-9/11 paranoia for evidence. Using the law as a blunt instrument is highly unlikely to make many friends for the U.S. in a community where we desperately need all the friends we can find.

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Colorado Shootings - Causes and Solutions

Deborah King | Posted 12.11.2007 | Living

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Americans feel increasingly stressed and helpless. Among the most common problem people give voice to are feelings of overwhelming anxiety and depression.

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Smart Power

Joseph Nye | Posted 11.29.2007 | Politics

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Terrorism is a real threat and likely to be with us for decades, but over-responding to the provocations of extremists does us more damage than the terrorists ever could.

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The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act

Philip Giraldi | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, Justice Department Seizure of Property, Committee on Un-American Activities, Alien Act, Homegrown Terrorists, Sedition Act, Ku Klux Clan, Samuel Dickstein, Joseph Lieberman, Thomas Jefferson, Military Commissions Act, Steve Emerson, Daniel Pipes, Habeas Corpus, Alien and Sedition Act, Department of Homeland Security, Sacco and Vanzetti, David Horowitz, Fascism, Patriot Act, Jane Harman, Anti-American Professors, Anti-Muslim, Frank Gaffney, Joseph McCarthy, Palestinian Americans, John Adams, Neoconservatives, Post 9/11, Martin Dies, Huac, Politics News

One would have thought that the systematic dismantling of the Constitution would have been enough to satisfy even the most Jacobin neoconservative.

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Obama: America's Best Hope

Sam Sedaei | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics

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Obama is the only candidate whose philosophy rejects the false choices that are often given to us by mainstream politicians.

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Does Anyone Else Think That...?

Sherman Yellen | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

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Hillary seems to provoke a condemnation disproportionate to her sins. She is not Dick Cheney. She is not even Lynne. She is not my candidate, but I do hate the word triangulate applied to her.

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Innocents and Foot Soldiers: The Stories of the 14 Saudis Just Released From Guantánamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

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The stories of the Guantánamo detainees do nothing to bolster the administration's claims that those detained in the "War on Terror" were so dangerous that it was worth breaking domestic and international law and introducing torture as official US policy.

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Torture American Style

Philip Giraldi | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Nazis Torture, Mukasey Waterboarding, Ronald Reagan, Third Reich, Nuremburg War Crimes Trials, Michael Mukasey, Guantanamo, 9/11, Dianne Feinstein, Global War on Terror, George Bush, Torture Enemy Combatants, Shumer Feinstein, Charles Schumer, Abu Ghraib, Pelosi Torture, Fuhrerprinzip Principal, Dick Cheney, Guantanamo Torture, Enhanced Interrogations, Post 9/11, Waterboarding, Gestapo Torture, Cheney Islamists, International Criminal Court, Torture, Politics News

The increasing tendency to designate critics as enemies or allies of terrorists suggests that the worldview of 1936 Berlin is not so far removed from that of 2007 Washington.

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