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Pro-Lifers Aren't Even Trying to Make Abortion Restrictions Sound Nice Anymore 27 Aug 2013 | 09:36 pm
The year 2011 was “The Year of Abortion Restrictions,” when states enacted more new laws narrowing abortion rights
Visiting Day 27 Aug 2013 | 09:28 pm
Do not share food or drinks.No rubbing arms or touching faces.Visitors and offenders mayhold hands across the table.You will only be permittedone greeting and departing kiss,a closed-mouth kissof one ...
Miley's Twerking Wasn't Racist 27 Aug 2013 | 09:12 pm
Many of the people clutching their pearls over Miley Cyrus’s gluteal gyrations at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday don’t want the America they claim to want.Cyrus’s sin was to engage in the dance ...
From the Stacks: "Theodore Dreiser" 27 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
Theodore Dreiser, American naturalist and the author of An American Tragedy and
Finally, a Dictator Does Something that Lanny Davis Cannot Tolerate 27 Aug 2013 | 07:37 pm
The last time we heard from Lanny Davis, he was doing what he does best: representing a dictator. This was all the way back in 2010, when Davis signed up with the Ivory Coast's president, Laurent
From the Stacks: A 1963 Profile of the Man Who Led the March Washington 27 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
It is not Asa Philip Randolph’s style to embarrass presidents of the United States in large assemblies; and so, when he came as a vice president of the AFL-CIO to the White House along with 300 other ...
Is Congress More Popular Than A Strike On Syria? 27 Aug 2013 | 09:06 am
Nine percent? According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, that's the share of the public that supports an attack on Syria. Even Congress polls better than that. So does BP.
White House Syria Deliberations: 'Do Less' Camp is Still Winning 27 Aug 2013 | 06:48 am
Today, after a weekend of behind the scenes scrambling to deal with the largest use of chemical weapons use in Syria to date, Secretary of State John Kerry finally took to the dias and brought the ruc...
The Best Reason to Intervene in Syria Isn't to Help the Rebels 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
If Bashar al Assad’s use of chemical weapons in a rebel-controlled suburb of Damascus is “undeniable,” as Secretary of State John Kerry declared today, the United States should retaliate forcefully. I...
The 'Let's Not Even Try' Foreign Policy 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
In Syria, Barack Obama is now at the turning point of his presidency, both for his foreign policy and for his own self-definition as a president.Over the past five and a half years, the nation has str...
