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The GOP’s Tea Troubles

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BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD “We are all Tea Party here,” declared Sarah Palin appearing with John McCain at a recent rally supporting his re-election as...

Reading In Black And White

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BY FROMA HARROP Such is our gadget obsession that the launch of a new electronic reader has set off a death match between two new-media gorillas, Apple and Amazon.com. Apple’s iPad seeks to end the Amazon Kindle’s domination of the market for devices that let you download books and read them on a screen. The […]

Democracy And Domestic Violence

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BY JOE CONASON When the Department of Homeland Security released a cautiously worded report on the potential dangers of right-wing extremism last April, the talk-radio wingnuts and certain Republican lawmakers went into spasms of indignation. Clearly, that report – an innocuous nine-page document commissioned by the previous Republican administration – had been conjured up by […]