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Obama Is Increasingly Irrelevant to the Debt Ceiling Process
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After Hacking Scandal, Should Journalists Work for Politicians?
Tweet Share on Facebook July 21, 2011 Comment (2)A new word has entered the political lexicon in the aftermath of the hacking scandal that has resulted in the arrest of several employees of News of the World and in Rupert Murdoch's decision to shut down the paper and withdraw his bid to buy British Sky Channel. It is “schadenfreude,” the word Germans use to convey the pleasure people take in the misfortunes of others.
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Betty Ford: A Woman of Her Own
Tweet Share on Facebook July 14, 2011 Comment (1)This week, America bids farewell to one of its most consequential first ladies, Betty Ford.
Rating first ladies is not an easy matter. Nor is it necessary. Established neither in the Constitution, nor by statute, the position comes with no job description. One gets to fill it by marriage. Still historians and others fascinated by lists keep trying.
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Debt Ceiling, Libya, Taxes Spur New Orwellianism
Tweet Share on Facebook July 7, 2011 Comment (3)This is the summer that George Orwell's “Newspeak” makes its greatest headway in Washington. (Readers of the novel 1984 will recall the term as the process through which bureaucrats re-christened the “Department of War” the “Department of Peace” and administered torture through the “Ministry of Love.”)
