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Can't Get There from Here

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert L. Borosage

The Obama administration has made its first serious misstep. No, it wasn't the wooing of ingrate Republicans, or the dining with clueless reactionary pundits. It is much more significant.

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Obama's Wake-Up Call

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jacob Heilbrunn

Even as unemployment hits 7.6 percent and shows no signs of slowing any time soon, the GOP is falling over itself to protect the ostentatious privileges and prerogatives of a few financial potentates.

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Creating Jobs Is Not "Wasteful"

Sen. Jeff Merkley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Jeff Merkley

America voted for a change of direction last November, not more of the same. Republicans should listen to the American people and work in a bi-partisan fashion to help get our country on the road to recovery.

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Our God That Failed

David Bromwich | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Bromwich

The high doctrine of Economic Correctness of the Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush years is as bankrupt as Soviet Communism. It is all but officially dead. Why then are the president's economic advisers paid to prop it up?

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