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| The Band of Leakers | | The New Republic Online - 14 Hours ago | | The nominal occasions for a conference call today with “Julian Assange & Whistleblowers” were, obviously, Edward Snowden’s recent leaks; the ongoing Bradley Manning court-martial; and the one-year anniversary | | | | Add Comment |
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| Revolution Until Imprisonment | | American Prospect - 22 Hours ago | | The documentary The Revolutionary, which documents the life of Charleston native and Chinese Communist Party member Sidney Rittenberg, looks at how political zeal becomes zealotry. PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint | | | | Add Comment |
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| Three Guiding Principles for NSA Reform | | American Prospect - 22 Hours ago | | Many Americans are disturbed by government data-mining, but what can we actually do to change the system we're so uncomfortable with? PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint APImages/Oliver Berg Edward | | | | Add Comment |
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| Boondoggle Goes Boom | | The New Republic Online - 6/19/2013 | | In July 2011, an army combat team known as the Arctic Wolves moved into the Kandahar district of Panjwai, where the Taliban was born and where Osama bin Laden is said to have planned the 9/11 attacks. | | | | Add Comment |
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| Bobby Jindal, Meet Strunk And White | | The New Republic Online - 6/18/2013 | | Barely had the executive jets departed Boston's Logan Airport filled with disappointed Mitt Romney backers after the 2012 election than Bobby Jindal was out of the box declaiming on what the | | | | Add Comment |
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| Prepare to Forget About the NSA | | The New Republic Online - 6/18/2013 | | The president’s approval rating has dipped, probably because of the NSA surveillance revelations or the accumulated effect of supposed or actual scandals. As Mark Blumenthal has pointed out | | | | Add Comment |
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| Virginia's Polarizing Governor's Race | | American Prospect - 6/18/2013 | | Prospect writer Abby Rapoport discusses the race between Ken Cuccinelli and Terry McAuliffe, candidates with wildly different ideologies who will put the state Democratic party's ability to mobilize its | | | | Add Comment |
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| The Gang of 8 Lobbies Fox News | | RoadRunner - 6/17/2013 | | Lizza has a behind-the-scenes article about immigration reform in the New Yorker, based mostly on interviews with members of the Senate's Gang of Eight, which shows some of the personal aspects of how | | | | Add Comment |
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| Rand Paul Is Keeping His Fingers Crossed | | The New Republic Online - 6/17/2013 | | Here's the cover image from the latest issue of The New Republic , shot by the photographer Platon . Take note of Senator Paul's left hand (click through for full image). | | | | Add Comment |
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| The Fourth Circuit's NLRB Smackdown | | American Prospect - 6/17/2013 | | Showing just how powerless the agency has become in protecting workers, a court rules it can't require employers to post a simple poster advising employees of their right to unionize. PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint | | | | Add Comment |
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| The Man Behind Moral Mondays | | American Prospect - 6/17/2013 | | A conversation with Reverend Doctor William Barber, who is leading the progressive charge against right-wing policies in North Carolina PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint Jenny Warburg Since they began | | | | Add Comment |
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| Ringside Seat: The Family that Tweets Together | | American Prospect - 6/15/2013 | | Being a politician requires a certain comfort with transparency. You have to accommodate yourself to being recorded all the time and accept that you'll have to be more open about your private life than | | | | Add Comment |
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| When Republican Governors Do the Right Thing | | American Prospect - 6/14/2013 | | More may opt to accept Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, but only when their personal political calendars allow it. PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint One of the oddest political turnarounds in recent | | | | Add Comment |
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| Nothing to Hide, Much to Fear | | American Prospect - 6/14/2013 | | Why the NSA’s data dragnet is far more menacing than invasion of privacy PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint In reviewing the public’s ambivalent reaction to the disclosures of NSA data mining, I find | | | | Add Comment |
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| Pacifiers and Pink Slips | | American Prospect - 6/14/2013 | | It's not uncommon for low-wage workers to be shown the door when they're pregnant. A little bit of bipartisan cooperation could help change that. PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint Would you lose your | | | | Add Comment |
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| Mo' Children, Mo' Problems | | American Prospect - 6/14/2013 | | Are the parents of only children selfish? Maybe, but Lauren Sandler’s new book says that's okay. PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint Courtesy of Nona Willis Aronowitz The author with her mother, feminist | | | | Add Comment |
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| Whither White America? | | American Prospect - 6/13/2013 | | More thoughts on the future of white people. PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint “Majority-minority” is an unusual term—by definition, minorities are no longer such if they’re in the majority—but it’s | | | | Add Comment |
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| Agee, Before He Was Famous | | American Prospect - 6/13/2013 | | Can a rediscovered first draft of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men speak more directly to our time than the finished masterpiece? PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint By age 26, James Agee had spent four | | | | Add Comment |
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| The Black Panthers Revisited | | The New Republic Online - 6/12/2013 | | Steve Wasserman, who was once editor of New Republic Books , has written a devastating review in The Nation of a new history of Oakland’s Black Panther Party, | | | | Add Comment |
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