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Ramon Espinosa / AP The Tiny Dominican Factory That Disproves the Need for Sweatshops
Sarah Adler-Milstein, a labor advocate, argues “there’s absolutely no reason” the world’s biggest clothing brands couldn’t follow the example of Santo Domingo’s Alta Gracia.
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Jack Thompson for the Wildlands Conservancy Welcome Our Newest National Monuments!
Often it seems that modern presidents can’t do anything — except wage war. Here’s a heartening exception.
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MPR Interview on Chessmaster vs. Pawn
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If You Didn't See Obama’s Gun Violence Statement Live, You Should Watch It Here
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How Politicians Deal With TV News, from Obama to Cheney to LBJ
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Obama Doesn't Watch TV News—Good
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Why Can't a Modern President Say, ‘The Only Thing We Have to Fear ... ’?
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Obama's Leadership Tone: Chessmaster, Pawn, or Something Else Altogether?
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Stephane Mahe / Reuters Obama: Chessmaster, not Pawn
Many of the president’s supporters fear that he hasn’t really known what he is doing. Many of his critics worry that he is all-too-skillful at attaining his ends. There’s increasing evidence that the critics may be right.
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Obama ‘Needs to Stop Sounding Like Dad’
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Does a Chickenhawk Nation Invite Terrorism?
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Pool Photographer / Reuters Obama the Analyst
In his speech about ISIS, the president shows the strength and the weakness of his logic-driven approach.
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Mike Segar / Reuters A Reader Condemns the Iran Deal—and Other Readers Respond
If Iran really threatens nuclear Holocaust, one asks, why aren’t opponents of the agreement demanding all-out war to stop it?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The President Defends His Iran Plan
Why is Barack Obama saying, “It’s the deal—or war?” Is it fear-mongering? Or “the dictates of cold, hard logic”? He explains his thinking in a conversation with journalists.
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Wikipedia Why Obama Gave a Christian Speech Without Mentioning Jesus
In a nation built on the separation of church and state, the line a Christian president walked at a ceremony for a murdered Christian preacher
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David Goldman / AP Obama’s Grace
The president delivers his single most accomplished rhetorical performance, and it’s one you should watch rather than read.
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Religious Weekend Special: Return of the Atlas Shrugged Guy
The man who said he'd close his business and fire his employees if Obama was re-elected ... is back!
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Reuters Readers on the Shutdown
Who is helped by permanent-emergency governance, and why.
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Reuters Et Tu, FT?
One newspaper, straddling two different worldviews
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Another Set of Questions About Syria
So that Errol Morris does not have to follow his documentaries on McNamara and Rumsfeld with one on the Obama team.
