The Weekly Chutzpah Award goes to Charles Koch—and it’s only Monday!
Obama Administration
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GM’s Hunger Games
The hunger strike is just the latest in a long history of labor tensions in Colombia.
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How Does the President Justify Having a Kill List?
…in which a Toledo TV reporter makes local news worth watching.
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Grading the Dems’ 2016 Arithmetic
Obama-Romney is still months away, but the up-and-coming Dems are already posturing for the next primary.
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Third Night of the DNC: TV & Twitter Review
Time to get serious folks: Obama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.
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Second Night of the DNC: TV and Twitter Review
The early part of last night’s DNC TV show couldn’t match Tuesday night. As I wrote yesterday, that first night rocked out over the body issues: health care for all, equal pay for women, open LGBT military service, repro rights, equal marriage laws-the human values of doing unto others as you would have them do […]
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First Night of the DNC: A TV & Twitter Review
It was a fiery night and electrifying television.
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Julian Castro’s Great Expectations
The San Antonio mayor’s speech wasn’t the main event Tuesday night. But he delivered exactly what the moment demanded.
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Obama and the Art of Not Getting Credit
Although understatement is an attractive quality in most lines of work, politics is different. Framing achievements so as to get timely bragging rights for them is part of the job, if you want to keep it. Since most politicians are only too eager to claim credit for any positive development, this isn’t usually an issue; […]
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Should Labor Boycott Charlotte?
Holding the party fête in the least unionized state in the country hasn’t done much to repair the frayed friendship between unions and Democrats.
