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Category: Politics and Current Events
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How many times can a president lie in one speech? And if those false statements violate criminal law, how can we hold him accountable?
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Cheating Justice looks at how the ex-president and vice-president can be held personally accountable, and how they tried to manipulate the system from inside to keep themselves from being held to account.
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In the U.S., there is no statute of limitations for certain cases of torture. What might this mean fo rhte former president?
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Patricia Harman looks at the personal costs of political battles over women’s health.
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A new book looks at the crimes of the Bush administration and why they still matter.
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Santorum’s bigotry may play to his base, but is increasingly a liability in a more inclusive nation.
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The holidays inevitably bring awkward– and sometimes heated– political conversations with our loved ones.
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On November 6, Beacon Press editor Alexis Rizzuto was part of the Tar Sands Action protest in Washington, DC. She sat down with our blog editor to discuss the protest and its impact. Beacon Press editor Alexis Rizzuto What was the protest about? It was to tell Obama not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline…
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By year’s end, 40,000 U.S. troops will return from Iraq. But the long nightmare of the Iraq War will not be over for either side of the conflict.
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Lynching victims were not metaphors. They were real people who suffered unimaginably.
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