Category: Politics
M.J. Rosenberg: Democrats Are Just Not That Into Israel Anymore
by WS Editors | Apr 2, 2013 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsA 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 Palestinians, 66 percent of Republicans choose Israel compared with 49 percent of independents and just […]
Lou Dubose on new George W. Bush presidential library: It’s a neocon rehash of terms that led us to war
by Lou Dubose | Apr 2, 2013 | Books, PoliticsThe 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 of September 11, 2001. MSNBC’s Al Sharpton was characteristically outraged on Friday and […]
Speaker’s Corner: Ghosts of the Vietnam War
by Nick Turse | Apr 1, 2013 | Foreign Policy, MediaJust 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. involvement in the war, but certainly not the war itself, nor the conflict […]
Editorial: A New Debate on Wages
by John Stoehr | Apr 1, 2013 | Economy, PoliticsAfter 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 new 21st-century world, all he offered were the same old […]
How a Shadowy Group Held Up the VAWA
by Alison Fairbrother | Apr 1, 2013 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsIn 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 nearly as often as men do. Schlafly demanded protections for men in the law’s reauthorization, and ways to […]
Bad Faith Documentary
