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The campaign: Is Obama a ‘socialist’?
feature In the final days of the campaign, Republicans have taken to calling Barack Obama a socialist.
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The Massachusetts message: What the voters are saying
feature The voters in Massachusetts changed the political equation when they chose Republican Scott Brown to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat.
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‘Climategate’: Is global warming a hoax?
feature In the wake of e-mails published by an anonymous hacker into the computers of the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University, questions about the validity of man-made global warming resurface.
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Obama in Oslo: A president’s evolving worldview
feature In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama surprised more than a few people with his pragmatic view of military action in response to evil.
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‘The Aughts’: The worst decade ever?
feature Will "the decade from hell" still feel that way 10 years from now?
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Democrats: Is the progressive era already over?
feature With midterm elections still 10 months away, 13 congressional Democrats have now called it quits. Polls suggest that Democrats will lose seats in both chambers, putting their majority at risk.
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One year of Obama: Why most voters are disappointed
feature Nearly half of Americans say that Obama has not delivered on his big promises, and his approval rating has slipped from more than 70 percent to 46 percent in some polls.
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The politics of health care: Will Democrats pay a price?
feature The instant President Obama signed health-care reform into law, the November midterm elections were transformed into a referendum on the biggest expansion of federal power in decades.
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Terrorism: Is Cheney winning the rhetoric war?
feature Cheney railed against the Obama's war policy last Sunday. Are the former vice president's arguments 'crazy' - or surprisingly logical?
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The Mideast: Are the U.S. and Israel going separate ways?
feature An announcement about new housing units in East Jerusalem has soured relations between the U.S. and Israel.
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Energy: Obama’s surprising embrace of offshore oil drilling
feature President Obama ended a 30-year-old drilling embargo by approving oil and gas drilling off previously closed portions of the Atlantic coast, in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and off parts of Alaska.
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Kagan: Why the questions about her sexuality?
feature The flap over Kagan's sexuality tells us that despite all the advances of feminism, some things haven’t changed.
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The BP ‘shakedown’: Will Barton’s gaffe help Democrats?
feature After Obama exacted a $20 billion escrow fund from BP CEO Tony Hayward, Joe Barton, a senior Republican on the House Energy Committee, apologized to Hayward for the “shakedown.”
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Afghanistan: Is the war doomed to failure?
feature The signs in Afghanistan are troubling both on and off the battlefield.
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