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Palestinian Roads: Cementing Statehood, or Israeli Annexation?
New evidence indicates that the PA's ambitious road-building program--heavily funded by the United States and Europe--is being used by Israel to facilitate settlement expansion.
| Oil Rig Sinks, as Does Senate Climate Bill
Two environmental disasters flared up this week: oil from a sunken rig is reaching land, and Senator Lindsey Graham has backed off from his bipartisan climate bill.
| The Breakdown: Will Financial Reform End Bailouts?
The Senate has finally opened debate on Dodd's financial regulatory reform bill--but misperceptions about the bill's impact abound. On this week's podcast, Washington Editor Christopher Hayes asks, will the bill end bailouts? Or just reinforce a broken system?
| Garzón on Trial
Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón has revolutionized international law--and now faces a suspension that could end his career.
| Goners
Was Wall Street short-sighted--or did it know full well the financial crisis was coming?
| Noted.
Jon Wiener on honoring Walter Moseley; John Nichols on Jim Hightower's populism
| Arizona Burning
The state's incendiary new immigration law has created a police state.
| Learning to Love the Healthcare Bill
It took time for people to appreciate Medicare and Social Security, but they did.
| Talking With Tony Judt
A discussion with the author of Ill Fares the Land about social democracy, trains and our desiccated ethical vocabulary.
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Much Ado About Doing Nothing
Anyone interested in making the 2010 (and for that matter, 2012) elections revolve around a comparison of Democratic and Republican plans for dealing with the country's big challenges should read Ezra Klein's intereview with Rep. Paul Ryan, published ... | Phil A. Buster and Democratic Regrets
In an interesting argument over at OpenLeft about the biggest mistake recently made by Democrats, Chris Bowers suggests that fighting Republican efforts to gut the right to filibuster back during the "nuclear option" debate of 2005 had truly ... | Time for a Day of Message Discipline?
Greg Sargent's 'Plum Line' post, "GOP blocks small business bill. Who will get the blame?" at the WaPo should be required reading for all Dem elected officials, their staffers and campaign workers. Here's what Sargent has to say ... | TDS Co-Editor William Galston: How Americans' Shifting Political Ideologies Threaten the Democrats
This item by TDS Co-Editor William Galson is cross-posted from The New Republic.
In a recent post, Jonathan Chait rightly calls our attention to the Pew survey released July 16 that showed how voters rate political parties' ... | Keeping the Record Straight on the Midterm Landscape
At CQ today, Roll Call columnist and election handicapper Stu Rothenberg has a piece today complaining about Democrats who are arguing that it was inevitable all along that they'd have a bad midterm outcome, regardless of the economy ... | Celebrating Unemployment
It's hardly news that state and local governments around the country are laying off workers and reducing services in the current economic and fiscal climate. But putting aside services for a moment, the sheer impact of public-sector ... | Watch out Democrats: the exposure of the dishonest manipulation of videos shown on Andrew Breitbart's websites will not moderate conservative attacks. On the contrary, it will intensify the search for new and even more aggressive tactics to employ.
The exposure of the dishonest manipulation of videos first released on Andrew Breitbart's websites has been widely and properly applauded as a major setback for the hard-right. In the future it is extremely unlikely that the mainstream ...
| Caddell and Schoen Officially Join the Right-Wing Noise Machine
Anyone paying attention to the antics of two well-known Democratic pollsters-turned-strategists, Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen, during the last year or so could see it coming. Both strongly opposed health care reform. Both started getting published ... |
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