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Is Obama Really the New Comeback Kid?
Is Obama Really the New Comeback Kid?
Left for dead after the 2010 elections, Barack Obama is now the media's new comeback kid. But let's wait and see what that "comeback" actually entails.
Invading Pakistan? The Worst Idea Yet
Invading Pakistan? The Worst Idea Yet
From dumb to dumber in Afghanistan: the US military wants to use Special Forces to invade Pakistan.
Fighting Back for Workers' Rights
Fighting Back for Workers' Rights
As we finish our last-minute holiday shopping, we shouldn't forget the great sacrifices of the workers who make the products we buy and the work still to be done to create safe workplaces for all.
Words of the Year: Right, Left and Populist
Words of the Year: Right, Left and Populist
From the rise of man-up to the fall of teabagger, the political buzzwords of 2010 express the Red/Blue divide.
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Books and the Arts
Frederic Tuten's Self Portraits is a backward glance on life that's vital, wistful and filled with sweet ache.
Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo made art that was deliberately elusive, that does not want to be pinned down.
The best poems in Skin, Inc. have an excellent unconscious feeling, even when the news is bad and Thomas Sayers Ellis knows nobody is going to want to listen.
News and Analysis
Our war has radicalized Pakistanis, turning many against the West and their own government.
With no tax justice coming from Washington, municipalities across the country will have to take matters into their own hands to save the jobs and social lifelines on which their communities depend.
The US military's reinvented counterinsurgency turns out to be the same old brutal game.
Educating Americans about this administration's healthcare successes is easier than Obama thinks.
With the US set to remain in Afghanistan until 2014, the war has taken on a life of its own, disconnected from any strategic goal.
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