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    American Amnesia: Why The GOP Leads On National Security

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    BY JOE CONASON If the latest polls are accurate, most voters believe that Republican politicians deserve greater trust on matters of national security. At a moment when Americans feel threatened by rising terrorist movements and authoritarian regimes, that finding is politically salient – and proves that amnesia is the most durable affliction of our democracy. […]

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    Commander In Chief

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    BY SUSAN ESTRICH “If we take the proper steps, we can save lives, but we have to act fast,” President Obama said last Tuesday. “We can’t dawdle on this one. We have to move with force and make sure that we are catching this as best we can given that this has broken out in […]

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    America’s Natural Politics

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    BY JIM HIGHTOWER My father, W.F. “High” Hightower, was a populist. Only, he didn’t know it. Didn’t know the word, much less the history or anything about populism’s democratic ethos. My father was not philosophical, but he had a phrase that he used to express the gist of his political beliefs: “Everybody does better when […]

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    Republican Reaction To Obama Speech Reveals Much – About Them

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    BY JOE CONASON Minutes after President Barack Obama concluded his strong and sensible address explaining how he intends to destroy the terrorist organization the Islamic State, Republicans popped up on television like political snipers. He should have kept a “residual force” in Iraq, complained Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, and he is to blame for the […]

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    Thirteen Years Later

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    BY SUSAN ESTRICH It seems like yesterday. And yet, so much was different. My kids were little. I still felt young. We were all so naive. Oh, of course we knew the world was a dangerous place, in which Americans serving abroad could be murdered by terrorists, buildings could be bombed, planes could even explode. But […]

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