Tony Auth

In what has become known as the Arab Spring, authoritarian leaders were brought down by crowds calling for democracy in Tunisia, Egypt, L ...

10 years ago

As James Carville might say, “It’s about politics, stupid!” ...

10 years ago

Congress grinds on. ...

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We’ve known that the guys who brought us the Iraq war suffered from self-deception and deceit. Now we know that they have no sense ...

10 years ago

It was going to be so easy. We would remake the Middle East by creating a bastion of democracy in the heart of the Islamic world. & ...

10 years ago

Only those in favor of government shutdown, default, and a wall of intransigence deserve the label “true conservative.” ...

10 years ago

A number of recent polls indicate that alarmingly high numbers of Americans are addicted to fantasy. Climate change, or global war ...

10 years ago

Is there no depth to which the Obama-haters will not sink? ...

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Of course the coal-producing states are addicted. They’re economically dependent on coal, one of the fossil fuels we have to abando ...

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The planet is infested… by us. Prominent biologist Stuart Pimm of Duke University is the lead author of a study publish ...

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The Republicans have a problem. Obamacare is working. Benghazi is a partisan circus. So what will the GOP do to rouse their base in the f ...

10 years ago

Waiting for their turn to see a Veterans Administration doctor in the scandalously long waiting lines, some 40 veterans have died. ...

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