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He's Baaaaack! Holbrooke, that is. (www.thenation.com) TMC

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 (www.thenation.com) TMC

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

Tags: tmc,the nation,john nichols,presidentelect barack obama,cabinet,department of the interior,interior secretary,raul grijalva,arizona

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Georgia Runoff is About More Than Filibusters (www.thenation.com) TMC

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 (www.thenation.com) TMC

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 (www.thenation.com) TMC

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

Tags: tmc,the nation,susan rice,iraq,iraq war,united nations,cabinet,presidentelect barack obama,us ambassador to the united nations

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Don't Confuse Susan Rice with Condi (www.thenation.com) TMC

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 (www.thenation.com) TMC

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

Tags: tmc,the nation,laura flanders,radio nation,new deal,economics,howard zinn,frances moore lappe,andrea batista schlesinger,eric schlosser,ennis carter,stephen duncombe,podcast

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The Fall of Triumphalism (www.thenation.com) TMC

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 (www.thenation.com) TMC

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 (www.thenation.com) TMC

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

Tags: tmc,the nation,presidentelect barack obama,national security team,cabinet,robert gates,secretary of defense,susan rice,us ambassador to the united nations,hillary clinton,secretary of state,jim jones,national security advisor

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