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Palestinian Roads: Cementing Statehood, or Israeli Annexation?
New evidence indicates that the PA's ambitious road-building program--heavily funded by the United States and Europe--is being used by Israel to facilitate settlement expansion.
| Oil Rig Sinks, as Does Senate Climate Bill
Two environmental disasters flared up this week: oil from a sunken rig is reaching land, and Senator Lindsey Graham has backed off from his bipartisan climate bill.
| The Breakdown: Will Financial Reform End Bailouts?
The Senate has finally opened debate on Dodd's financial regulatory reform bill--but misperceptions about the bill's impact abound. On this week's podcast, Washington Editor Christopher Hayes asks, will the bill end bailouts? Or just reinforce a broken system?
| Garzón on Trial
Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón has revolutionized international law--and now faces a suspension that could end his career.
| Goners
Was Wall Street short-sighted--or did it know full well the financial crisis was coming?
| Noted.
Jon Wiener on honoring Walter Moseley; John Nichols on Jim Hightower's populism
| Arizona Burning
The state's incendiary new immigration law has created a police state.
| Learning to Love the Healthcare Bill
It took time for people to appreciate Medicare and Social Security, but they did.
| Talking With Tony Judt
A discussion with the author of Ill Fares the Land about social democracy, trains and our desiccated ethical vocabulary.
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Finally, there's a solid, empirically grounded comparison of the size of the Glen Beck rally and the Obama inauguration - Are you ready? The Beck Rally was only 11% of the size of the inauguration.
A couple of days ago I noted that CBS was the only news company that went to the trouble of hiring a professional aerial photo analysis company to estimate the size of the Beckapallosa last weekend and ... | Structural Causes of the "Enthusiasm Gap"
In analyses of the current political climate, an awful lot of stock has been placed in the so-called "enthusiasm gap" between Republicans and Democrats. Sometimes this "gap" is based on polling that actually asks voters about their level ... | Can Threat of GOP Surge in Polls Help Energize Women?
Lisa Mascaro of the L.A. Times Washington, D.C. Bureau has a wake up call for women political activists and all voters who believe more women are needed in congress. Madcaro's article, "Women in Washington, Your Seats Are at ... | Beyond The Mother of All Bummer Midterm Polls
The political websites are all abuzz about the latest Gallup generic ballot poll, which indicates an all time midterm GOP advantage of 10 percent. If that wasn't downer enough for you, here's a couple of nut graphs Harry Enten's ... | TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The CBO Director Just Made Fiscal Policy Seem More Confusing. Yes, More Confusing.
This item by TDS Co-Editor William Galston is cross-posted from The New Republic.
Ben Bernanke's "unusually uncertain" may be for our times what Alan Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" was to the late 1990s--a phrase that captures the dominant ... | Lessons of Iraq: Don't Do It Again
President Obama's announcement last night that all U.S. combat troops have left Iraq, on schedule, didn't get much positive commentary. Many Republicans complained he didn't give credit to the man who once promised to "liberate" Iraq and ... | The Conservative Politics of Common Purpose
The primary defeat of incumbent Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (confirmed by her concession yesterday) by former judge Joe Miller is generally being interpreted as another scalp for the Tea Party Movement in its assault on Republicans deemed too moderate ... | Bush Nostalgia
When President Obama speaks from the Oval Office tonight about the final withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq, you'd think most Republicans would remain silent, or if not, focus on Afghanistan or even Iran as the locus for a ... |
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