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January 23, 2006
12:48
OK, everyone who has studied the unitary executive theory of the presidency, raise your hand. Anyone? Former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega examines what's behind the legal fig leaf covering the Bush Administration's warrantless spying program.
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David Sirota writes that no voice rings as hollow as Newt Gingrich's on the GOP culture of corruption. Incredibly, the media are swallowing his story.
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Patricia Williams writes that if we are suspending the law in deference to Bush's unchecked impulses, let's call it by its proper name: Benign lawlessness? Gitmo Governance? Fear Factor?
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Arthur C. Danto offers a history of the often overlooked Fra Angelico, whose genius is stirring the interest of contemporary artists.
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David Oshinsky reviews three books that examine American history through the lens of racism and racial identity.
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January 19, 2006
12:54
Nicholas von Hoffman writes that Americans' spending habits threaten to render us the economic undead: buried in debt but prevented by credit card companies from declaring bankruptcy.
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12:54
Robert Scheer writes that it's appallingly clear Team Bush is unwilling to do the heavy lifting to make Afghanistan a functional nation.
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January 14, 2006
11:33
Elizabeth Holtzman writes that the time has come to call for the impeachment of President Bush. Any President who maintains he is above the law--and acts repeatedly on that belief--seriously endangers our consitutional system of government.
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11:33
William P. Jones writes that while the edges continue to be smoothed off Martin Luther King Jr.'s bracing challenges to racism, war and free-market exploitation, the holiday is a time to remember a leader who believed civil rights and labor rights were tightly intertwined.
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11:33
The Editors write that cleaning up Congress after the Abramoff scandal involves far more than limits on gifts and perks. It requires barring the 'legalized bribery' of major campaign contributions. Only by promising to change that will Democrats win the support of the American people.
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Bruce Shapiro writes that if the Alito confirmation hearings were a test of Democratic strategy, the Alito vote to come is a test of moderate Republican integrity and mettle.
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Ari Berman writes that for a long time on Capitol Hill, no one was interested in lobbying reform. Now everybody wants to get in on the act.
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11:33
Gar Alperovitz and Thad Williamson outline ten bold but plausible progressive ideas, from universal health insurance to free daycare and a shorter work week.
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11:33
Stuart Klawans writes that Caché (Hidden) is a shallow, Hitchcockian look into affluent amorality, starring Daniel Auteuil, Juliet Binoche and the splendor of upper-class Paris itself.
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Jonathan Rée writes that a collection of Hannah Arendt's essays and letters reveals even more behind this great thinker than does her classic, The Origins of Totalitarianism. Arendt's philosophy is grounded in a complicated liberalism that purifies and elevates politics from a cynical game to philosophy.
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January 11, 2006
10:52
A significant credibility gap opened Tuesday between Samuel Alito's radical judicial record and his self-portrayal as an open-minded jurist as Supreme Court confirmation hearings continued. Bruce Shapiro writes that senators interested in probing that gap have reason to scrutinize a recent peer evaluation of Alito's rulings by Yale Law School that locates him somewhere to the ideological right of Antonin Scalia.
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10:52
Robert Scheerz considers the irony that Jack Abramoff, Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed and other once-young Republicans who hectored their elders about being more vigilant in defending the nations taxpayers and security forces, should now end up accused of deeply betraying both.
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January 10, 2006
12:15
In his first day of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito tried to paint a blue-collar picture of himself, framing his academic and judicial accomplishments in the experiences of his immigrant parents. In the first of a series of dispatches from the hearings, Bruce Shapiro writes that this ploy did not prevent senators from pressing instead on Alito's political and judicial biography--his attitude and opinions on executive privilege, voting rights, abortion and possible conflicts of interest.
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