Politics
Will the media’s penchant for accentuating the negative prevail over its pro-Obama sentiments?
- 2009Aug 14
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Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is finally paying a political price for his eyebrow-raising relationships with scores of women, from the “family friend” whose 18th-birthday party he attended to the former topless model he elevated to his
- 2009Aug 10
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Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression
- 2009Jul 2
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Sibling to a handful of American icons, Ted Kennedy became a towering political figure in his own right. The following images—at least one from every decade since the 1930s—capture the charisma and determination that helped make Kennedy one of the cou
- 2009Aug 26
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President Obama has pledged to help Main Street where it is hurting the most. Here's a look at where he's followed through -- and where he hasn't.
- 2009Aug 7
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So far, Congress is taking a surprisingly sensible approach to the problem of payTHE boardrooms of America were ready for misery. What else could result from Congress’s fury at runaway executive pay, outrageous Wall Street bonuses and handsome rewards f
- 2009Aug 6
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Office 39, North Korea’s billion-dollar crime syndicate, pays for Kim Jong Il’s missiles and cognac. Why did the Bush White House choose not to shut it down?
- 2009Aug 5
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The Reverend Jeremiah Wright, President Obama’s former pastor, has often described his preaching style as prophetic, and, sure enough, his brief but spectacular turn in the campaign limelight last year has proved a harbinger of things to come. After mon
- 2009Aug 3
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Federal rules have long prohibited mile-high dialing for fear that signals emitted from cellphones could cause planes to crash. But new technology has made it safer to use phones in the air....
- 2009Jul 31
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The next few weeks could determine the fate of Barack Obama’s presidencyIF THE opinion polls are to be believed, Barack Obama is now, six months into his presidency, no more popular than George Bush or Richard Nixon were at the same stage in theirs. His
- 2009Jul 30
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Inside Goldman Sachs, America’s most successful, cynical, envied, despised, and (in its view, anyway) misunderstood engine of capitalism.
- 2009Jul 27
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Three days after President Obama’s address to the Arab and Muslim world, voters in Lebanon went to the polls to elect a new parliament. According to the Times, “most analysts” had confidently predicted victory for the electoral coalition led by Hezb
- 2009Jun 15
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Barack Obama’s ubiquitous appearances as professor-in-chief, preacher-in-chief, father-in-chief, may turn out to be the most salient feature of his presidency.
- 2009Aug 3
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Reform must include building a smarter delivery system for the new century.
- 2009Jul 31
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Ten years ago, Facebook didn't exist. Ten years before that, we didn't have the Web. So who knows what jobs will be born a decade from now? Though unemployment is at a 25‑year high, work will eventually return. But it won't look the same. No one is goin
- 2009May 20
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