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THE MEDIA AND THE SURGE….Gen. Petraeus may be pretty good at handling the media, but even the best media handler can only get results if the media plays along. So how has the media done? Greg Sargent takes a look at that side of the story today and he’s not impressed.
Trump pardoned a right-wing authoritarian convicted of cocaine trafficking, apparently to reinstate him to power in Honduras and undermine left-wing governments in Mexico and Colombia. So why isn’t America media covering it?
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Forty-five years after the attempt on John Paul II’s life, the Kremlin has yet to be officially blamed.
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Following the March murder of a VA case worker at a Georgia community clinic, Congress is probing what can be done to protect VA staff. Three ideas that can help.
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A report from our new think tank, The Washington Monthly Institute.
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Whether a “jihad” or “crusade,” language can serve to sanctify war. Mark Twain skewered such jingoism over a century ago.
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Massive turnout is the best strategy for defeating systematic efforts to disenfranchise U.S. voters.
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By accepting that different candidates hold different Middle East positions, Democrats can avoid having their primaries become divisive, de facto policy referendums.
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