Leaders like Cheney seem more concerned with appearing muscular than solving global conflicts. In fact, attempt a solution, and you’ll be called weak.
Obama Administration
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Why Democrats Need to Take Sides in America’s Class War
Straddling class divisions is so last century. There’s a new base in town, and it includes a lot of people who used to be middle-class but aren’t anymore.
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This Is What Happened When I Took the MTA Bus to Pick Up Food Stamps
A response to a much-chattered-about article by an upper-middle-class white woman who was appalled to find herself judged when she applied for food stamps.
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Why the IRS Non-Scandal Perfectly Represents Today’s GOP
Nearly everything you need to know about today’s Republicans is represented in this particular fruitless quest to nail Barack Obama.
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Justice Samuel Alito’s Deep Roots in the American Right
He’s the most pro-corporate jurist on the Supreme Court. So decisions that grant companies religious rights or take aim at labor unions come quite naturally to him.
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Alabama Steelworkers Fight for Their Jobs, Threatened By Korea Trade Ruling
The steel industry is under attack by the selling or “dumping” of foreign steel, says the Alliance for American Manufacturing.
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Watch Paul Waldman on Washington Journal
See the Prospect’s contributing editor not react to a caller’s assertion of a particular sort of enagement by members of a political party with a moose appendage.
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Why the Fight Over Executive Authority Will Define the Rest of Barack Obama’s Presidency
When Republicans made it impossible for the president to run the government, he found ways around their obstruction. And that made them really, really mad.
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Memo to Next V.A. Chief: How Technology Allowed Corruption to Flourish, Hurting Veterans
President Obama has tapped Robert A. McDonald to run the embattled Department of Veterans Affairs. Here’s what he’ll need to understand about the limits of the V.A.’s vaunted electronic records program.
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Can the U.S. Stop Drones From Creating a More Dangerous World?
Even if we establish clear policies restraining our own use of drones, other countries may not.
