Controversies
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McCain: Is he ready for Obama?
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Michelle Obama: In the eye of the storm
feature Republicans have targeted Michelle Obama as a weak link in Barack Obama
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Global warming: Do ‘green’ initiatives matter?
feature George W. Bush has blown his final chance on climate change, said The Washington Post in an editorial. With only nine months left in office, the president still had time to correct his “terrible legacy of inaction” on global
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Jesse Jackson: Decoding his cutting remark about Obama
feature The backlash that has followed Jesse Jackson's remarks may actually benefit Barack Obama in his quest for the White House.
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Obama: The audacity of political pragmatism
feature Last week, Barack Obama announced that he was backing out of his commitment to take limited public financing to underwrite his campaign.
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Pakistan: Did democracy die along with Bhutto?
feature The killing of Benazir Bhutto has also laid to rest the Bush administration
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The Mideast: Does Bush’s peace push have a chance?
feature President Bush’s Mideast policy has come “full circle,” said The Washington Post in an editorial. When he entered the White House seven years ago, Bush disdained nation-building, and “disparaged and quickly abandoned” President Bill Clinton’s efforts to b
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Controversy of the Week
feature It was “the most critical three-day period in the Republican presidential race so far,” said Byron York in National Review Online, but when it was over, the GOP still didn’t have a clear front-runner. But after all the “wooing” and posturing, said Linda F
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The economy: Is the stimulus plan already too late?
feature "You know we have a crisis,
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Obama: Is he the second coming of JFK?
feature "The arc of Barack Obama
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Bush: How will history judge him?
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Obama: Will the ‘elitist’ label stick?
feature This could be the break Hillary Clinton has been hoping for, said Adam Smith in the St. Petersburg, Fla., Times. For weeks she’s defied calls to drop out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, hoping for a game-changing event that might n
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Hillary: Should she quit—or fight on?
feature Hillary Clinton just won’t take no for an answer, said Jay Bookman in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “For several weeks now, it had become clear that she could not win the Democratic nomination.” With only 10 primaries to go, Barack Obama leads her by
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Hillary vs. Obama: Is she the stronger candidate?
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