March 2012
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“No matter what he does—rescuing the unemployed, insuring people with...”
– Lee Siegel, at The Daily Beast.
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'...an overwhelming 78 percent of [American...
…voted Republican in the 2000 presidential election, with only a thin sliver voting Democratic. Since 9/11, those numbers have flipped: The percentage of American Muslims who “lean toward the GOP” is just 11 percent. Muslim Americans generally have pretty traditional values—many of them are religious, fiscally conservative, and believe strongly in the immigrant “pull yourself up by...
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'...In February, after embarrassing himself by... →
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'Conservatives have come to see the majority's... →
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'If the police video of George Zimmerman being... →
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'...New claims for unemployment benefits fell to a... →
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“If—certainly as I see it—the future looks increasingly bleak, almost a form of...”
– Lord David Terence Puttnam, from a lecture he
will present the lecture at the Association of Art Historians’ 38th Annual Conference today. Taking place at the Open University, Milton Keynes, it will be attended by 500 international academics, artists, curators, architects and musicians.
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'Inside the United States, the big political story...
Elsewhere, that is a barely comprehensible local story—all other rich countries provide some version of universal coverage and spend less money and achieve better outcomes than the United States.
and what’s more:
But from Berlin to Beijing, the debate about manufacturing and whether governments have a duty to support it is a live issue. That is one more reason this U.S. election...
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Both the initial police report and various mainstream media outlets have reported that George Zimmerman…had signs of trauma to his nose, blood on the back of his head and nose, and grass and moisture on the back of his red jacket when they arrived on the scene, as a result of being beaten by 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. A video obtained by ABC News proves those assertions to be untrue.
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'The spectacle before the Supreme Court this week... →
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“The outlets for our rage don’t work, and so our rage festers and grows inside...”
– Lee Siegel, at the Daily Beast
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'The high cost of college and other factors are... →
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[a program that's working] Out of Jail, and Into a... →
