When I think about five more months of the partisan attacks both presidential candidates will launch and the millions they’ll spend doing it, it’s harder to respect our political system. But there was an unusual moment yesterday that gave me some assurance. President Obama hosted George W. Bush and his family at the White House […]
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Urban journal – 12.07.05
Time for us to go It’s taken me a while to reach this point, but I’ve stopped wrestling with myself: I’m with Congressman John Murtha. It’s time to start leaving Iraq. We shouldn’t have attacked Iraq. Many of us knew that, and argued against the war plan. Once in, though, there didn’t seem a logical […]
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Urban journal – 11.23.05
The Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld attacks on critics of the Iraq war have been vicious, but not surprising. Nor is it surprising that some Republican members of Congress have joined in, or that the Republican Party — as concerned as the administration about eroding public support for the president and the war — is producing television ads targeting […]
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The XX Files 11.09.05
Laughter pours from the studio audience at the comic actors’ antics. A moment later, the studio audience is silent and here at home; we’re the ones who are laughing. That’s because here at home, we can see things neither the actors nor the studio audience can. We’re watching Drew Carey’s Green Screen Show, which marries […]
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Reader Feedback 9.28.05
TALKING BACK TO LANDSBURG Steven Landsburg is wrong (“On the Money,” September 7). Everybody does not benefit. The US manufacturing sector: machinists, production managers, janitors, engineers, technicians, and production workers all lost when corporations moved jobs to low-wage countries. It sure looks like the major stockholders reaped virtually all the benefits. The results of corporate […]
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The XX Files 9.14.05
Let’s blame the mothers, okay? It’s all their fault. It always has been. Eve got busy with that apple and caused a world of misery. Pandora, ditto, except with a box. Freud’s archetypal mother, complete with her rejecting womb and withholding boobs, caused all our quirks and peccadilloes. Today we’ll start with Mother Nature. Mother […]
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More lies, more deceit
Well, it’s going to be a long three and a half years. Some Bush critics take comfort in the president’s falling poll numbers. I don’t. I figure they’ll strengthen his resolve, not temper it. He and Rumsfeld and Cheney will ramp up the push for their radical agenda, to get it in place before Bush […]
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Reader feedback 6.15.05
Cutting costs in the county, protesting Bush policies
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Reader feedback 6.8.05
Catholics and dissent, the Bush visit, designing downtown
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America, America…
We’ll work it all out, one of these days, and the country will seem like the one we say we want. Maybe we’ll even resurrect civil discourse. But not, I’m afraid, before we regress dangerously into the past, to a time when myth held sway over science, abortions were available only through back-alley practitioners, workers’ […]
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Reader feedback 5.25.05
Grading the D&C, reforming the county budget, defending Bush
