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The Opportunity In Afghanistan

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH During the most difficult days of the Mondale-Ferraro campaign in 1984, someone printed up a button that said: “There are no problems. Only opportunities.” By that definition, President Obama has one heck of an opportunity right now with respect to the war in Afghanistan. There is no easy answer to what to […]

Electrify The Roads

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BY FROMA HARROP My magic wand is on the fritz, otherwise we’d have a big, new federal program to free America from its dependence on oil. Like other environmentalists, I’m sad that the calamity in the Gulf of Mexico hasn’t spurred Washington to more vigorously promote America’s exit from this curse. The fault may lie […]

GOP Wants You, Not BP, To Pay

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BY KENNY BELFORD On health care reform, the Republican Party fought for the corporate interests of big insurance companies. On the economy, Republicans fought to...

The Politics Of Disaster

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH When BP CEO Tony Hayward went to Capitol Hill this week, he got beat up on by all sides. When the president declared “war” from the Oval Office in response to the continuing spill, he, too, got beat up on by all sides. Welcome to the politics of disaster. What everyone wants, […]

A Green New Deal Now

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BY JOE CONASON If the right-wing chorus insists that the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico is “Obama’s Katrina,” then let us hope the president will make the most of that slogan. The comparison between the utter failure of the Bush Administration and the missteps and errors of the Obama White House is […]