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Still no new government in Iraq

Professor Cole explains why the Iraqis have been unable to form a government since the elections. If you think it’s our fault, you’re right. So why is the United Iraqi Alliance, the coalition of Shiite...

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Doing missionary work

Chris Hayes has a pretty interesting piece up on In These Times that suggests in part that progressives should look to the example of some of the world’s fastest-growing religions and be missionaries...

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Get Your Terri Shaivo On

David Rees talks about the Terri Shaivo situation in his most recent Get Your War On strips. Here’s one of the many excellent bits: Glassy-eyed, no cognitive ability, persistent vegetative state. Poor...

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Slouching toward theocracy

This is what happens when you win the election by pandering to the religious right: Christian conservatives and a core group of congressional supporters are launching a significant new push to...

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So, when are you leaving?

If you thought that the Iraqi people were glad to have us there now that the elections are done, you’re wrong: Edmund Sanders reports that the crowds in downtown Baghdad protesting the US troop...

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U.S. Health Care: Still in Crisis

Today Paul Krugman started a series of columns about the crappy U.S. health care system (and what can be done to fix it): Finally, the U.S. health care system is wildly inefficient. Americans tend to...

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More on health care

Part two of Paul Krugman’s series on U.S. healthcare is here.

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Bill Frist plays the religion card

Senator Bill Frist, the head Republican in the Senate, has decided that it’s time to play the religion card in his fight to get rid of the filibuster. As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the...

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Iraq strife

Professor Cole has an excellent article [Salon day pass required] up at Salon where he discusses the strength of the insurgency in Iraq and, more importantly, the divisions that threaten to tear the...

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Transformation or just more triangulation?

Glenn Greenwald hits the nail on the head yet again, reminding those who have apparently forgotten the Clinton years (and ignored the Democrats in Congress during the Bush years) that Obama’s whole...

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