Dick Polman
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For the Koch brothers, what’s another billion?
Here’s a great idea for 2016: The Republican presidential nominee should be required to wear an arm patch adorned with a picture of ...
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Boehner and Bibi, conniving to undercut American foreign policy
This is a story about John Boehner and Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, current partners in a brazen plot to embarrass the U.S. pre ...
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‘Tis the season of Republican pandermania
For several weeks now, the GOP has had multiple opportunities to behave like a majority party. With midterm victory comes t ...
10 years ago
The Obama solar success story that nobody talks about
Remember Solyndra? The solar-panel manufacturing firm that defaulted on a guaranteed federal loan? The firm whose ’11 bankruptcy wa ...
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Obama’s foreign policy rhetoric, annotated for truth
In his State of the Union speech, President Obama talked domestic policy with a metaphorical spring in his step. But on foreign policy, h ...
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Obama channels Janis Joplin, with nothing left to lose
What were those lyrics, the ones that Janis Joplin famously sang? Oh yeah: “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to l ...
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The ’15 State of the Union: ‘Class warfare’ and the ’16 campaign
Washington is like a cable TV series that stays on the air too long – think Weeds, think Dexter – recycling ...
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Martin Luther King, on the better angels of our nature
Martin Luther King….It’s his world and we only live in it – at least for today. So the least we can do is take two minu ...
10 years ago
Bigots in public jobs, keeping the gay at bay
Back in 2013, I wrote: “Generations from now, Americans living in a marriage-equality culture will marvel at the anti-gay reactiona ...
10 years ago
The tone-deaf party of deportation strikes again
A popular French adage goes like this: Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose. English translation: The more that ch ...
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Christie’s State of the State address, annotated for truth
Chris Christie delivered his annual State of the State ...
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Elizabeth Warren, the bright shiny object
Elizabeth Warren continues to bedazzle people precisely because she’s not running for president. If she were to actually r ...
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