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Keeping the Wheels on the Obama Presidency

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, White House, Europe, Public Option, Pragmatism, Joseph Lieberman, Economy, Bailouts, Progressives, Compromise, Jobs, Iraq, China, Democratic Party, Realism, Barack Obama, Marriage Equality, Wall Street, Rahm Emanuel, Oresident Obama, Single Payer, Health Care, Russia, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Joe Lieberman, Afghanistan, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

Because he cannot provide peace and prosperity, Obama needs to pass some meaningful legislation to demonstrate that he is doing something positive. Just getting a health care bill passed will mean nothing to many Americans.

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Shifting Gears on Missile Defense Marks a Shift in U.S. Policy Toward Russia, with Immediate Impact on Iran

David Paul | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Missile Defense, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Russia Georgia Conflict, Ukraine, Dmitry Medvedev, Realism, Foreign Policy, Dick Cheney, Kosovo Independence, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Sergei Lavrov, Nato, Chechnya, Vladimir Putin, Gwot, Ukraine Gas, World News
David Paul

Ahmadinejad's normal swagger has been muted, perhaps with the realization that his days of manipulating Russia against the West have ended.

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Republican Choice: Reality or Tea Bags

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Pakistan, Obama, Taliban, Tea-Bagger, Realism, Reconcilation, Republican Party, Neorealism, Nuclear Weapons, Fox News, Waterboarding, Glenn Beck, Neo-Realism, Rush Limbaugh, Health Care, Tea Party, Republicans, Tea Bagging, Politics News
Michael B. Laskoff

President Obama was a hell of a campaigner - smart, disciplined and highly realistic. He's brought those same qualities to the presidency itself, whic...

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Reality on the Water

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Read More: Piracy, Criminals, Obama, Pirates, Realism, Richard Phillips, Ideology, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, World News
Michael B. Laskoff

Could it be that President Obama, Secretary Gates and the Department of Defense also know what they are doing on the ground in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan?

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Russia, Iran, and the New Realism

Frankie Sturm | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Obama Afghanistan, India, Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Iran, Barack Obama, Realism, Afghanistan War, Islamic Republic of Iran, World News
Frankie Sturm

It seems like realism is enjoying a worldwide renaissance. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev took to the editorial pages of the Washington Post today,...

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The American Way of War

The Real News | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Industrial Complex, The-American-Way-of-War, Super-Power, Solutions, Afghanistan, 911, George W. Bush, President Obama, Crises, The Real News, Realism, Infrastructure, Education, Eugene Jarecki, Military, Dwight Eisenhower, Defense, Paul Jay, Over-Confidence, Iraq, Health Care, Police-Action, Politics News
The Real News

The American Way of War is Eugene Jarecki's latest book. Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker whose previous film Why We Fig...

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Foreign Policy, Not the Economy, May Define the Obama Presidency

David Paul | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Pakistan, Economic Crisis, President Obama, Hamas, Taliban, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Russia Georgia War, Realism, Dmitry Medvedev, Bashar Al-Assad, Al Qaeda, Foreign Policy, Afghanistan War, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Vladimir Putin, Neoconservatives, Global Financial Crisis, Israel, Syria, Soviet Union, 100 Days, Politics News
David Paul

Even as the Obama administration may be consumed by efforts to stem the recession, we appear to be at a tipping point in foreign affairs.

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Lugar Calls for a "Return to Realism" on Cuba

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.24.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba Embargo, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, US-Cuba Relations, National Interest, US Foreign Policy, Raul Castro, Hillary Clinton, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Carl Meacham, Realism, Richard Luar, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, World News
Steve Clemons

For US-Cuba policy junkies, Lugar's report is pretty breathtaking in its indictment of decades of American failure in trying to adjust Cuba's national government's behavior via sanctions and an embargo.

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Walking the Contradiction

Jon Chattman | Posted 01.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Angelina Jolie, Benjamin Button, Jim Carrey, William Hung, Jon Chattman, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Wanted, Yes Man, Pragmatism, Optimism, Unrealistic Movies, Realism, Happiness, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

I know it's "just the movies" and things can't happen like they do in them, but sometimes it'd be nice if these kinds of "message movies" held some concrete messages within them.

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The Painting Whisperer vs The Anxiety of Abstraction: Annie Lapin

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.25.2008 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Charlie Sheen, Illusion, Still Life, Body Building, Kimberly Brooks, Abstraction, Figuration, Michelangelo, Painting, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Annie Lapin, Realism, Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone, Art, Abstract Art, Intuition, Apocolypse Now, Penicillin, Fine Art, Portraits, Oil Paint, Coppola, Godard, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Take for a moment the spectrum of Realism and the raucous jazz of Abstraction in painting and slide somewhere in the middle. Over to the left is real...

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