By Robert ParryOctober 12, 2008From Republicans at political rallies to GOP lawmakers on TV talk shows, McCain-Palin supporters are angry, very angry – and they seem to think their anger justifies whatever they do: from calling Barack Obama a “te…

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By Jason LeopoldOctober 11, 2008Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abused her authority and broke state ethics laws by sanctioning a campaign to pressure subordinates to fire her former brother-in-law, state trooper Mike Wooten, according to an investigative re…

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By Jason LeopoldOctober 10, 2008Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband admits he was obsessed with getting his wife’s estranged brother-in-law fired from the state troopers, so much so that Gov. Palin once told him to “stop talking about it with her…

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By Sherwood RossOctober 10, 2008The desperation of the McCain camp over its sagging fortunes is nowhere better revealed than in its ridiculous attacks on Barack Obama for sitting on the same board of a Chicago philanthropy with William Ayers, a oneti…

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By Michael WinshipOctober 9, 2008And so it has begun. The final month of the presidential race, the campaign that feels as if it commenced some time during the Coolidge administration.Read on.

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By Robert ParryOctober 9, 2008Once Barack Obama emerged as a viable candidate for President – given the nation’s grim history of violence toward African-American political figures – the worries began about Obama’s safety, and they have not gone a…

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By Jason LeopoldOctober 7, 2008A Republican-dominated federal Appeals Court panel has blocked the enforcement of a congressional subpoena, effectively guaranteeing that George W. Bush will leave the White House without his senior aides having to expl…

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By Robert ParryOctober 6, 2008Sarah Palin’s charge that Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” may mark the descent of Campaign 2008 into the sewer that has marked so many other recent U.S. elections. But her comments operate on anoth…

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By Jason LeopoldOctober 5, 2008Only days before the scheduled release of an investigative report on whether Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska’s governor in the “Troopergate” case, six pro-Palin lawmakers have lodged an emergency appeal askin…

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By Robert ParryOctober 3, 2008The neoconservatives and their Republican allies did all they could after Thursday’s vice presidential debate to turn Sarah Palin’s peppy, personable but ultimately goofy performance into a turning point for another…

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By Brent BudowskyOctober 3, 2008Plan A is Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s plan to spend about $50 billion a month buying distressed assets for resale later. With current law – and with the Paulson bill as written – the government can increas…

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By Jason LeopoldOctober 1, 2008A key witness in the “Troopergate” investigation of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has backed off an earlier defense of Palin and now says the governor’s associates applied pressure to deny workers compensation to her es…

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By Robert ParrySeptember 27, 2008Perhaps it’s unrealistic to expect a U.S. presidential debate to deal substantively – and honestly – with wrongful actions by the American government, even at the end of George W. Bush’s eight-year reign as on…

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By Michael WinshipSeptember 26, 2008We thirst for leadership, vision, someone who can speak to us in a way that refuses to avert its eyes from the crisis but shines a light of truth upon the problem, then offers hope and possible solutions.Read on.

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By Jason LeopoldSeptember 26, 2008An attorney for Alaska’s legislative investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin says John McCain’s presidential campaign is seeking to derail the inquiry because its findings could “cause serious damage to the Republica…

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By Robert ParrySeptember 24, 2008After a 28-year binge of drunken optimism and blind nationalism – often punctuated by chants of “USA, USA!” and “We’re No. 1!” – Americans are waking up with a painful hangover, facing a grim “morning …

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By Bill Moyers and Michael WinshipSeptember 22, 2008From our offices in Manhattan, we look out on the tall, gleaming skyscrapers that are cathedrals of wealth and power – the Olympus ruled by the gods of finance, the temples of the mighty, the holy…

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By Peter DyerSeptember 21, 2008Q: What do Radovan Karadzic, former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, and George W. Bush have in common? A: Each lives under the slowly growing shadow of a body of international criminal law.Read on.

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By Jason LeopoldSeptember 20, 2008As Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin works to derail a legislative inquiry into her firing of the public safety commissioner, state officials are vowing to finish a report on the controversy by Oct. 10 and to weigh contempt pr…

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By Michael WinshipSeptember 16, 2008Where would politicians be without the Titanic? As metaphors go, it’s far more majestic than putting lipstick on pigs or pit bulls.Read on.

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