National Interest Archive
Apparently it’s the Republicans’ world. Barack Obama only lives in it.The president said as much yesterday, during a press co
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13 years ago
If Barack Obama winds up losing his re-election bid in 2012, we may well identify his December ’10 debacle as the beginning of the
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13 years ago
Given the way we live now, life in the year 2000 seems so innocent. Ten years ago, we were at peace and the unemployment rate was four pe
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13 years ago
The cold-hearted spirit of Ebenezer Scrooge is alive and well in the U.S. Senate, which is essentially telling the jobless to buzz off.Am
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13 years ago
Back in September, when we last visited the issue (it should be a non-issue) of open gay service in the military, Senate Republicans were
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13 years ago
After many months of pondering, I have come to believe that WikiLeaks maestro Julian Assange is a menace to civilization. Wait, let me am
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13 years ago
To truly appreciate the increasingly rightward tilt of the GOP – courtesy of tea-party pressure; or, just as importantly, the t
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13 years ago
The great British novelist Aldous Huxley once wrote that “human beings are condemned to consequences” – a line that spr
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13 years ago
The fetus mystery and the flaws of memory
So what’s up with the Bush family, anyway? George W. says it was his mother who put the fetus in the jar. But his mother says it wa
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13 years ago
Grow up, Americans. Stand still for a few seconds at the body scanning machine, then be on your way to the concourse. Put up with the pat
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13 years ago
Palin’s home state humiliation
Apparently we are doomed this week to endure another round of Palin Peekaboo. The former half-term Alaska governor has a new book –
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13 years ago
In the interests of civility, and out of respect for the slaughtered innocents of World War II, would everyone please stop equating every
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13 years ago
Just imagine what would happen, politically speaking, if the Senate Democrats ever threatened to block a national-security treaty that ha
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13 years ago
The “objective” journalistic nirvana
The award for Grumpiest Old Man, long monopolized by John McCain, now rests on the mantlepiece of a new recipient. That would be ABC News
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13 years ago
A travesty of a mockery of a sham
Anyone who still holds Congress in high esteem may want to revisit that sentiment, in light of the farcical tragicomedy that transpired y
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13 years ago
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