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He's Baaaaack! Holbrooke, that is.
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The other shoe is dropping. Now that Hillary is feathering her nest at State, it seems likely that a flock of Democratic hawks -- or are they vultures? -- will be settling in, too. First among firsts... More
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Grijalva for Interior Secretary
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Now that President-elect Barack Obama has put together his administration's economic, foreign-policy and national-security teams, the transition process comes to the interesting part. Obama was,... More
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Georgia Runoff is About More Than Filibusters
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President-elect Barack Obama can hardly be faulted for deciding against taking time away from the transition to campaign for Democratic US Senate candidate Jim Martin in today's Georgia runoff... More
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Disappointment in Georgia
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On the eve the last Senate election of 2008, a still-campaigning Sarah Palin declared: "You Georgians are going to have the opportunity to determine the direction this country is going to... More
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UN Pick Rice: Another Wrong-on-Iraq Nominee
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On the outside chance that anyone thought that Dr. Susan Rice might be the exception to the rule of wrong-thinking that characterizes Barack Obama's foreign-policy team, well, think again. Obama's... More
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Don't Confuse Susan Rice with Condi
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They share the same last name, but don't confuse Susan Rice--Barack Obama's nominee as ambassador to the United Nations--with Condoleezza. My colleague John Nichols cherry picks one statement Rice... More
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Imagining a New New Deal
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This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political... More
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The Fall of Triumphalism
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In a remarkable evocation of the strategic environment of 2025, the National Intelligence Council (NIC), a government intelligence service, portrays a world in which the United States wields... More
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Iraq Pact Challenges Antiwar Movement
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What does the US-Iraq Security Pact mean for the antiwar movement? It certainly may cement an American perception that the war is finally over, stranding the peace movement as public opinion turns its... More
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Obama's Big Tent
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Say what you will about Barack Obama's national security team, but clearly the President-elect wasn't fibbing when he promised to bring unity to Washington. Who else could get Robert Gates, General... More
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