Controversies
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Palin: Is she a viable presidential candidate?
feature The former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate is promoting her memoir, Going Rogue, and trying to rehabilitate her image.
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Swine flu: Are we prepared for the worst?
feature Only 16.5 million doses of the swine flu vaccine have been produced in spite of a promise by The White House that 80 million to 120 million doses would be ready by mid-October.
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Obama: Has he bitten off too much?
feature The president came into office determined to leverage his post-election popularity in a host of major initiatives.
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Obama: Can he spark the country’s confidence?
feature Experts disagree on whether President Obama's big budget decisions—a $1.2 trillion bank bailout, a $75 billion mortgage bailout, and a $787 billion stimulus spending plan—were necessary to save the economy from sliding into
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Iraq: Is Obama really ending the war?
feature Obama unveiled a timetable under which all “combat units” would leave Iraq by August 2010; the plan also allows for the continued presence of up to 50,000 “support troops” until December 2011.
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Obama: Has he lost Wall Street’s confidence?
feature The Dow has plunged more than 15 percent since Inauguration Day in spite of the stimulus bill and the bailouts to the banking and mortgage industries.
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The deficit: Can the U.S. ever dig itself out?
feature President Obama’s 2011 budget would leave us with a deficit of $1.3 trillion—and projects massive deficits for a decade.
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Obama: The second coming of Jimmy Carter?
feature President Obama’s poll numbers are down, his agenda is stalled, and there is backbiting and finger-pointing between his acolytes and the more pragmatic members of his administration.
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Obama vs. Congress: The politics of ‘no’
feature Will President Obama and the Republicans find common ground?
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Hu’s visit: Redefining China’s relationship with the U.S.
feature Did Chinese President Hu Jintao gain the upper hand or was his visit a draw?
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Guns: Would tougher laws have prevented a massacre?
feature Since Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were gunned down in 1968, more than a million Americans have died of gunshots, in crimes, accidents, and suicides.
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After Tucson: Can America be a more ‘civil’ nation?
feature At last week’s memorial service for the victims of the Arizona shootings, President Obama called for Americans to put aside “cynicism and vitriol.”
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Thompson
feature Did he wait too long?
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Bush’s Foreign Policy
feature What went wrong?
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