Controversies
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McCain: Can he defy the odds?
feature By all rights, said Susan Page in USA Today, John McCain should be worried. Only 39 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the Republican Party.
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Tibet: An Olympic-size black eye for Beijing
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Romney: Does it matter that he’s Mormon?
feature Mitt Romney has many of the attributes Republicans want in a presidential candidate—conservative social views, a spotless personal life, and strong managerial experience, as governor of Massachusetts and head of the 2002 Winter Olympics. Yet for many vote
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Iraq: As violence ebbs, is reconciliation possible?
feature "Baghdad has undergone a remarkable transformation,
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Iran: Does the U.S. need a new policy?
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Baseball: Will the steroid report change anything?
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Evangelicals: A schism in the Republican base
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Islamic justice: Turning a teddy bear into a crime
feature Muslims often wonder why so many non-Muslims are
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Controversy of the week
feature Subsidized health care: How poor is needy?
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The new president: How will he govern?
feature Though his background and voting record are distinctly liberal, Obama won the White House by hewing to the center and vowing to usher in a new, post-partisan politics.
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Race: Has America entered a new era?
feature Will the election of an African-American to the presidency bring about a "transformational shift" in the relations between blacks and whites?
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The election: Could the polls be wrong?
feature Polls are showing Barack Obama ahead in key battleground states, but in most of them, he is still not getting more than 50 percent of the vote.
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Pelosi and waterboarding: How much did she know?
feature Nancy Pelosi has been critical of the Bush Administration's use of waterboarding, but a newly released CIA memo says that she was briefed about the agency's methods as long ago as September 2002.
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The CIA’s secret plan: Did Cheney commit a crime?
feature Dick Cheney has come under scrutiny for ordering the CIA not to tell Congress about a post-9/11 plan to assassinate al Qaida operatives with paramilitary hit teams.
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