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Santorum, Gingrich Give Dour Speeches at CPAC

Santorum, Gingrich Give Dour Speeches at CPAC

Rick and Newt say they would replicate Reagan’s playbook, but they lack his optimistic appeal. 

Posted February 11, 2012

Pro-Choice and Catholic Groups Praise Compromise on Contraceptive Access

Pro-Choice and Catholic Groups Praise Compromise on Contraceptive Access

Does the US Conference of Catholic Bishops care more about playing politics than serving Catholics?

Posted February 10, 2012

Sheldon Adelson and the End of American Anti-Semitism

Sheldon Adelson and the End of American Anti-Semitism

How can it be that the “richest Jew in the world” can buy the foreign policy of a major party’s presidential contender and “the Jews” have somehow escaped the blame?

Posted February 8, 2012

Books and the Arts

Margaret Sanger’s legacy continues to haunt debates about abortion and family planning.

For the critic John Leonard, “books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves.”

Zoe Strauss has turned the streets of Philadelphia into a museum for her photography.

News and Analysis

Drone flies above Afghanistan

With the invention of drones, we crossed into a new frontier: killing that’s risk-free, remote, and detached from human cues.

Rally in support of Planned Parenthood

Forcing the Komen reversal was huge—but it was a campaign born of outrage, not ambitious vision.

Bribes from billionaires? Super PACs buying campaigns right and left? Let’s just dip our fingers in purple ink and pose for photos.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Obama’s abandonment of patient diplomacy—combined with Israel’s bellicose demands—has pushed us dangerously close to conflict.

A soldier in Israel

Why do patriotic members of an elite combat unit refuse to serve in the occupied territories?

In the slow motion destruction of Susan G. Komen, VP Karen Handel may be the only one who got what she really wanted.

In a volatile era, OWS’s participatory democracy makes more sense than top-down government.

An Occupy protester in Chicago

The Occupy movement has been a seedbed of creativity. Now it needs to declare its values.

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