In an epic bit of television, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly reads Waldman’s critique of Cheney’s Iraq record to the former vice president on the air—and demands a reaction.
Adele M. Stan
Adele M. Stan is a columnist for The American Prospect. She is editor of Right Wing Watch, and a winner of the Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism.
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Daily Meme: Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Amid the ordinary comings and goings of Washington and New York, today was mostly a day of goings-and their dissection. In an extraordinary interview with Dean Baquet, who succeeded the summarily ousted Jill Abramson as the New York Times’ executive editor, NPR’s David Folkenflik asked Baquet if it was true that maps on the walls […]
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Daily Meme: Have My People Call Your People
Today brings news and reminiscing of unlikely meet-ups, past, present, and future. In a Nixon-in-China moment, India’s newly minted prime minister, Narendra Modi (a Hindu nationalist), welcomed Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif (a Muslim nationalist), to New Delhi for the former’s swearing-in ceremony. The two nations have been arch-rivals since Pakistan was carved out of […]
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Daily Meme: Poll Dancing
They’re calling it a “mini-Super Tuesday.” Today’s round of primaries for U.S. Senate seats in six states-Kentucky, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Arkansas and Idaho-could determine the Democrats’ chances for holding on to control of the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body. In Kentucky, where Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to beat right-wing challenger Matt Bevin, the […]
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Daily Meme: Separation, Schleparation
The Supreme Court of the United States took a bold stand today for the invocation of somebody’s God at official government functions. It may not be your God–hey, maybe you don’t even have a God. (Wait, is that even legal in America?) At Religion Dispatches, Sarah Posner writes that “advocates of church-state separation are warning […]
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Daily Meme: Racist Team Owner Loses Dignity; Keeps Team
Contemplating how best to celebrate the birthday of the late, great Edward Kennedy Ellington, one of the finest composers and orchestra leaders who ever lived, one might not have considered the banning for life of a racist team-owner from attending the games of his own team, but that’s not a bad way to fête the […]
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Daily Meme: Post-Racial America From Hell
It’s been quite a week in post-racial America, beginning with a Supreme Court decision on Tuesday that upheld the results of a ballot measure that barred the use of race-based affirmative action in the admissions process used by the University of Michigan, and exploded this weekend with the utterances, attributed to NBA team-owner Donald Sterling […]
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The Education of Geraldine Ferraro
As the first female vice-presidential candidate for a major party, Ferraro — the daughter of working-class, Italian Catholic immigrants — quickly learned that it was her gender that counted most.
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Benedict v. Islam
Was the pontiff’s visit to Ground Zero a gambit in the Catholic Church’s contest with Islam for the soul of the developing world?
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RICHARDSON ON OBAMA: YES, HE CAN.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has, at long last, endorsed one of the Democratic contenders for the party’s presidential nomination, and that choice is Barack Obama. As a former political appointee of Bill Clinton (served as energy secretary and, later, U.N. ambassador), it’s interesting that Richardson chose to endorse Obama before the convention. According to […]
