Category: Politics and Current Events
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Jeff Sharlet talks about the fundamentalist Christian politicians who call themselves “The Family.”
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Frederick S. Lane looks at the Constitutional issues posed by the group of politicians at 133 C Street, otherwise known as “The Family.”
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Our Skeptical Pollster David W. Moore looks at bias in the seemingly objective world of polling.
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Thomas N. DeWolf looks at how the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., provides a teachable moment about race in America.
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Polling expert David W. Moore looks at the paradox of why people apparently support the specifics of Obama’s health plan but not the actions he’s taking to carry it out.
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Lillian Rubin looks at last week’s hearings and finds Sotomayor’s performance lacking.
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Frederick Lane looks at the history of anti-Census fervor.
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Kate Clinton’s latest video log discusses Sonia Sotmayor and the white guys running her confirmation hearing.
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As former Liberian President Charles Taylor defends himself against charges of war crimes in Sierra Leone, you should read Philip C. Winslow’s post about that’s country’s brutal civil war here. Winslow wrote the piece after three commanders in that war were found guilty on multiple counts of war crimes. From Philip C. Winslow:…
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Farnoosh Moshiri watches the violence in her native Iran from afar.
