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Obama’s First Year: Good, Not Great
In his first year in office, Barack Obama has been a very good president, both at home and abroad. The trouble is that in these difficult times, America does not need a very good president. It needs a great one. And, judging from his performance during his first year, when his popularity was at its…
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Coakley’s Failure, Obama’s Lesson
Now the finger-pointing and ferocious spin-meistering begin. Why did Martha Coakley lose in her bid to replace Edward Kennedy as the senator from Massachusetts? Is this a referendum on the Obama administration and, particularly, on his health care reform proposal? Does this outcome bode major losses for Democrats in the 2010 congressional elections? First things…
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Read/React: Scott Brown "Looks Like an American"
Context: A discussion of Martha Coakley and Scott Brown’s respective appeal as they vie for Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat. Joan Walsh of Salon was…less than impressed with this roundtable discussion. You?
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20-Year-Old Runs for Mayor in Ga.
Your senior year of college was probably not spent running for the mayor of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia. For Glenn Stegall, this is a reality being fueled by elbow grease and web 2.0. From EricaAmerica The election is on November 2nd, and while Stegall is not the first ambitious undergrad to go after the college town…
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A Blueprint for Rebuilding Haiti
Since late afternoon on Jan. 12, images of human suffering in Haiti have been at once wrenching and overwhelming. One senses the need and feels compelled to help in the moment, confident that every little bit helps. When the lens pulls back, the enormity of the challenge takes on intimidating dimensions. The reality that many…
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Blog Noir: Bold as Love
Rob Fields is a buddy of ours at The Root and his blog Bold As Love is worth checking out, especially if Black Alt Rock is your cup of tea. Here’s a sample of an interview with Oakland rockers HOTTUB from guest blogger Sierra McClain SIERRA: Throw your sets up! Where do you live and…
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Matt Taibbi Set Slaps David Brooks on Haiti
David Brooks’ Sunday op/ed in the New York Times on the underlying tragedy in Haiti—poverty—attempts to tease out the real problems in moving forward in Haiti post-quake and what can be done to improve the situation. Matt Taibbi of True/Slant takes Brooks’ op/ed to the digital woodshed as he “translates” what Brooks is really saying…
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Denzel and The End of the World
Given the devastating earthquake in Haiti, with Wyclef Jean declaring, “This is apocalypse!” there’s an unsettling resonance to the dystopian vision of the Hughes Brothers’ The Book of Eli: Cities reduced to rubble. Lives cut short. Life’s essentials—water, food, hope—in desperately short supply. Consider The Book of Eli a dispiriting primer on what the world…