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Bush Team Shakeup

The ouster of Andrew Card as Bush's chief of staff wasn't a huge surprise, points out Wonkette

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The Cost Of Incompetence

There's a realization going around Washington these days. more »

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Carter On A Roll

Jimmy Carter has, of late, been breaking the unwritten rule that former presidents shall not contradict sitting presidents on major issues of policy. more »

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Tamara Draut's picture

Minority Report

In yesterday’s New York Times, an article  pronounced “Whites more »

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Rewriting The Rules

In dramatic  letter carefully sent to Harry Reid at the end of t more »

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Tamara Draut's picture

Cheney Lectures Us About Responsibility?

Editor's Note: While TomPaine.com editor Alexandra Walker is on vacation, we are delighted to have Tamara Draut as a guest blogger. Draut is director of the Economic Opportunity Program at  Demos, where she oversees the research, policy and advocacy work on economic security issues. She is the author of STRAPPED: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead.

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Bill Buckley: Iraq's A Failure

Add William F. Buckley to the list of traitors to the Bush administration. more »

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Democracy's Regression

In these times of the Patriot Act and domestic surveillance, we might justifiably be concerned that our society is becoming post-democratic. more »

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Patrick Doherty's picture

Fukuyama's Misleading Apology

In his now-infamous article in The National Interest, "The End Of History," conservative foreign policy scholar Francis Fukuyama argued that, with the end of the Cold War, more »

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Worried About Wiretaps

Thanks to DailyKos  for flagging this post from lawyer-blogger more »

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