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Donald and the Ayatollahs

by Lou Dubose | Mar 14, 2017 | Foreign Policy, Politics

“My number-one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran,” presidential candidate Donald Trump told the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee last March. “And let me tell you, this deal is catastrophic for America, for Israel, and fo…

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A Political Hustler to Run DOE

by Lou Dubose | Feb 8, 2017 | Election 2016, Politics

Rick Perry might have been a safe pick as Energy Secretary, but it’s hard to argue that he was a smart one. There are valid reasons—beyond the fact that he once argued that the U.S. Department of Energy should be shut down—that would, in a healthy de…

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Jeff Sessions and Jim Crow

by Lou Dubose | Jan 19, 2017 | Politics, The Interval

“Read the first page of Many Minds, One Heart,” Larry Goodwyn said. It was the last time I saw the Duke University historian, at his home in Durham six months before his death in September 2013. Goodwyn, best known for his defining work on American p…

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A Pardon for Don Siegelman

by Lou Dubose | Dec 8, 2016 | Politics

…y defeat at the polls is clearly a scandalous black mark in the history of American justice.” Before his conviction, Siegelman was a political force in Alabama, where he had been elected secretary of state, attorney general, lieutenant governor, and g…

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When James Comey Was Our Hero

by Lou Dubose | Nov 3, 2016 | Election 2016, The Interval

FBI Director James Comey frequently describes how his Irish-American heritage formed him. Here, for example, is Comey at Georgetown University in February 2015. I am descended from Irish immigrants. A century ago, the Irish knew well how American soc…

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