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Rahm Emanuel Still Hates Democracy; and Other Sequels from Five Months of Columnizing
This past April I published a piece here I wanted to call "Rahm Emanuel Hates Democracy." Cooler heads in the front office prevailed, and the piece ended up being called "Rahm Emanuel Has a Problem with Democracy." Here's the sequel: Every time I gave a radio interview in Chicago and mentioned my original title for […]
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How Republicans Cheat Democrats - and Democrats Cheat Themselves
The volume of explanation for why Republican Scott Walker won and Democrat Tom Barrett lost last week's Wisconsin recall election has been overwhelming, which is as it should be: This was a very, very important election. Some have pointed out that it is only natural that Walker won when his side outspent the opposition by […]
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Crunch Time in Wisconsin
It's Big Money vs. grassroots solidarity in the fight for the state's future - and America's
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Chicago History Repeats Itself As Cops and Protesters Clash
A dispatch on the NATO protests from a city's violence-haunted streets.
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How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' - and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook
The feds have seized an Orwellian power – the power to decide which ideas are dangerous, regardless of the genuine threat they pose
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Why Wisconsin's Recall Clusterf#@k Matters
Next month's election will say a lot about who controls American democracy -- regular voters or deep-pocketed ideologues
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On the Crisis of Zionism
Israel has strayed a long way from its ideals, a powerful new book argues. And so have American Jews.
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Behind the Right's Phony War on the Nonexistent Religion of Secularism
Crazy ideas have a way of becoming accepted "fact." Liberals take heed.
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Van Jones: 'Progressives Have Another Century to Win!'
The top grassroots organizer on rebuilding the American Dream - for all Americans
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Why GOP Mega-Donor Sheldon Adelson Is Mad, Bad and a Danger to the Republic
He's unhinged, unscrupulous, and in the market for a president.
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