As he insults the Obama administration, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon weakens his own country.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Retirement, and the Value of Term Limits
Fixed term limits for justices would mean no more uncomfortable debates about when someone should leave the job they love.
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Did the Right Set Obama’s Agenda?
Recent debates on the left seem to overlook the success of critical progressive legislation.
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Barack Obama Considers Punching Zach Galifianakis In the Face
Not for real. But he did do an episode of “Between Two Ferns.”
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Dealing with Iran’s Two Faces
The U.S. can keep talking to Iran about nukes even while pressuring them on terrorism.
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The Disgraceful Rejection of Debo Adegbile
Republicans voted against his approval as part of a broader anti-civil rights agenda, but the 7 Democrats who joined them ought to be mortified by their own cowardice.
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Daily Meme: “Free Mumia” Backfires Once Again
For some time, a few liberals (like yours truly), and many more conservatives, have used the “Free Mumia” cause as a shorthand for a kind of ineffectual yet harmless activism that always exists in some corners of the left. Whatever the merits of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case, if you brought a “Free Mumia” sign to an […]
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Daily Meme: Vladimir Putin is Delusional Like a Fox
In the wee hours of yesterday morning, while you were still blissfully asleep, Russia’s president and tiger-fighter-in-chief, Vladimir Putin, gave a strange, rambling press conference. In it, he insisted to reporters that there were no Russian troops on the ground in Crimea, and likened U.S. foreign policy to a dark science experiment. “They sit there […]
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Conservatives Condemn Weak Weakness of Weakling Obama
Did we mention that they’re saying he’s weak? Well they are. Weak, weak, weak.
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The Left, Viewed from Space
In an essay in Harpers, political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. looks at the American left, missing most current events but getting some of the big picture right.