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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
Yesterday morning I had an interesting (from my POV) talk with Kerri Miller of Minnesota Public Radio, on the by-definition…
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If You Didn't See Obama’s Gun Violence Statement Live, You Should Watch It Here
Below you see the YouTube version of the official White House feed from earlier today. I’ve set it to begin…
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How Politicians Deal With TV News, from Obama to Cheney to LBJ
Without much set-up or padding, herewith some of the slew of holiday-week responses to last night’s Note, on why President…
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Obama Doesn't Watch TV News—Good
In the previous note I mentioned a strange little controversy over President Obama's comment, in a supposedly…
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Why Can't a Modern President Say, ‘The Only Thing We Have to Fear ... ’?
A week ago at this time I was still typing up notes from a two-hour “off-the-record” interview that President Obama…
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Obama's Leadership Tone: Chessmaster, Pawn, or Something Else Altogether?
Through the past ten days in this space, I’ve had several items on the style and logic of President Obama’s…
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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’
After President Obama’s anti-ISIS speech, I said that I agreed with his strategy and its underlying logic, but could understand…
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Does a Chickenhawk Nation Invite Terrorism?
After President Obama’s speech on ISIS last night, I argued that he was making a least-bad, sane, shrewd case about…
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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.
