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    April 18, 2013

  • Chauncey DeVega: Kermit Gosnell and the Right-Wing Media's Torture-Porn Fixation

    by Chauncey DeVega
    (Image courtesy of the AP) It is a given that Kermit Gosnell should be stripped of his medical license and incarcerated. Those who support abortion rights see Gosnell as proof of the types of horrible things that will occur if a woman’s right to be Read »
    • April 12, 2013

  • Chauncey DeVega: 'Accidental Racist' Perfectly Captures Our Political Moment

    by Chauncey DeVega
    Brad Paisley went on Ellen this week to explain his new country song, "Accidental Racist." Ellen Degeneres asked: "So you're basically saying?" Paisley answered: "I don't know." Pop music is disposable by design. Pop music is also a spa Read »
    • April 11, 2013

  • M.J. Rosenberg: No Chance of Peace with Netanyahu, Time for Obama to Push Back

    by M.J. Rosenberg, Special Correspondent
    In 1990, Secretary of State James Baker had basically had it up to here with the Israeli government. The (George H.W.) Bush administration had been trying to entice Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir into negotiations with the Palestinians but he kept adding Read »
    • April 10, 2013

  • Lou Dubose: Why Some Conservatives Actually Support President Obama's Budget

    by Lou Dubose
    The annual Conservative Political Action Conference, held in mid-March, is four days of shrill, angry, conservative rants. Christopher Preble was this year’s exception. As senior defense analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, Preble is a persistent Read »
    • April 5, 2013

  • M.J. Rosenberg: Only Muslim Nuclear Bombs Scare Us

    by M.J. Rosenberg, Special Correspondent
    The Obama administration, Congress and the media are finally showing some concern about the threats that have been emanating from North Korea since the beginning of the year. The Pentagon is moving an advanced anti-missile system to Guam just in case No Read »
    • April 2, 2013

  • Lou Dubose on new George W. Bush presidential library: It's a neocon rehash of terms that led us to war

    by Washington Spectator
    The presidential library of George W. Bush opens next month. A central aim of the new library appears to be the rehabilitation of Bush's presidency, primarily by distancing him from the Iraq War and by drawing him closer to the terrorist attacks Read »

  • M.J. Rosenberg: Democrats Are Just Not That Into Israel Anymore

    by M.J. Rosenberg, Special Correspondent
    A new Pew Research Center poll demonstrates that Republicans are much more sympathetic to Israel than Democrats, a wider partisan divergence than has ever existed before. The poll finds that when asked if their sympathies are more with Israelis or Pales Read »
    • April 1, 2013

  • If We Build It, They Will Come: Is the Keystone XL Unstoppable?

    by Lou Dubose
    Motiva’s Port Arthur refinery is too immense to comprehend from one vantage point. It sits on 4,600 acres of marshland a mile northeast of the rotted-out central business district of a Gulf Coast town that white families abandoned 40 years ago. Motiva Read »

  • How a Shadowy Group Held Up the VAWA

    by Alison Fairbrother
    In a townhall.com article published in July 2011, 88-year old conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly wrote that the Violence Against Women Act was “implemented to punish men” and ignored a “mountain of evidence” that women initiate physical violence Read »

  • Rick Piltz: Keystone XL pipeline is why we need whistleblowers

    by Rick Piltz, Special Correspondent
    From 1995-2005, Rick Piltz held senior positions in the Coordination Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. In the spring of 2005, Piltz resigned in protest of the Bush administration’s political interference with climate change scie Read »

  • Editorial: A New Debate on Wages

    by John Stoehr
    After President Barack Obama called on Congress to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9, it fell on U.S. Senator Marco Rubio to make the conservative case against it. Alas, for a Republican Party trying to reinvent itself for a brave Read »

  • Speaker's Corner: Ghosts of the Vietnam War

    by Nick Turse
    Just over 40 years ago, the United States signed an “Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam.” It did neither. President Richard Nixon called it “peace with honor.” But it wasn’t. All the agreement did was end direct U.S. i Read »

  • Charts: Immigration Nation

    by Lou Dubose
    In the American political lexicon “undocumented” means “Mexican”—our largest immigrant group. Unauthorized immigrant residents peaked at 12 million in 2007. Today Mexicans represent 28 percent of the foreign-born population and 58 percent of t Read »

  • Book Review: Germany’s Power Play

    by Kate Gordon
    President Barack Obama could not have been clearer about the urgency of now: “For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change,” he said in his State of the Union address. He issued a call to action—and a threa Read »
    • March 1, 2013

  • Sequester the Pentagon

    by Lou Dubose
    Winslow Wheeler described the $54 billion scheduled to be cut from defense spending by sequester as “puny.” The former congressional budget analyst who works for the Project on Government Oversight was not defending the cut. He was putting it in con Read »

  • Diplomatic Impunity: Trafficking Women to the United States

    by Yuko Narushima
    New York CityThree filipina women crowd the kitchen of a New York City apartment, ribbing one another over a bubbling fish stew. The eldest, Dema Ramos, is an exceptional cook and has given up trying to suppress her laughter. This outwardly serious mot Read »

  • Candidates, Guns & Money

    by Lou Dubose
    When Democrats in Congress consider gun control, it is always through the optics of 1994, the year Republicans recaptured the House of Representatives after 40 years as the minority party. Democrats had passed (by a razor-thin 216-214 margin in the House) Read »

  • Environmentalism on the Offense for a Change

    by Bill McKibben
    It is a pleasure to set my milk crate down and clamber on top, the better to spread the news of the burgeoning movement to fight climate change—a movement somewhat different from the environmentalism of the last couple of decades. That environmentalism Read »

  • No Way Out: Foreign Diplomat Defrauds Housekeeper

    by Washington Spectator
    In November, Mauritius’ ambassador to the U.S., Somduth Soborun (pictured, right), pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of failing to pay his domestic worker the federal minimum wage ($7.25 an hour). Authorities said the worker, a Filipina national Read »

  • Clamping Down on Trafficking of Women

    by Yuko Narushima
    Since the Government Accountability Office identified weaknesses in the A3 and G5 visa system in 2008, the U.S. government has taken steps to strengthen the program. Consular personnel are required to screen diplomats more closely prior to issuing visas t Read »

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Editorial: The Fight for Voting Rights Has Just Begun
By Michael Waldman

As is well known, the 2012 election saw a national drive to restrict the ability to vote. Citizens fought back. By Election Day, almost every harsh new law was blocked, blunted, postponed, or repealed. Count that a true win for democracy. But let’s not be satisfied with just winning defensive f 

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Letters: 'The earth is doomed'
By Washington Spectator

Warning Ignored Re: “Environmentalism on the Offense for a Change,” The Washington Spectator, March 1. I was a supporter of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for many years. I can no longer support it since I’m now on Social Security. These scientists have been warning u 

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Inbox: The Leveretts’ Brave Book
By Washington Spectator

The authors of Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, support the Islamic Republic of Iran, a fundamentalist totalitarian regime. Their book (reviewed by Chase Madar in “Obama in Tehran,” March 2013 

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For Bobby Jindal, April Was the Cruelest Month
By Stephanie Grace

It’s become an article of faith in louisiana that Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has his eye on a bigger prize. Jindal consistently, if winkingly, denies it. But in Baton Rouge, his national ambition is part of the landscape. That’s worked out fine for the one-time Rhodes Scholar and precocious 

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