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Nine years on: Are we safer?
feature Has the U.S. neutralized al Qaida as a significant threat or has the global terrorist network survived and adapted?
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Terrorists in court: What did the Ghailani verdict prove?
feature Al Qaida operative Ahmed Ghailani was convicted of one charge—out of a total of 285 charges—for his part in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa.
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WikiLeaks: In Arab capitals, pleas that the U.S. bomb Iran
feature The diplomatic cables reveal that Arab leaders are aligned with the U.S. and Israel in their desire to see Iran contained and stripped of its capacity for nuclear weapons.
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2012: The midterms’ impact on the presidential election
feature Will the results of the midterm election make it easier or harder for President Obama to win re-election in 2012? What do the results mean for Sarah Palin?
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Politics: Should the Democrats move to the center?
feature While shaken by their losses to the Republicans, many liberals think Obama has already been “too eager to compromise.”
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Obama: Can he learn from his mistakes?
feature After a loss of more than 60 House seats, will President Obama modify his policies?
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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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Honoring the Confederacy: Is it inherently racist?
feature Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a rising GOP star, stunned the political world last week by declaring April “Confederate History Month.”
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The Tea Partiers: Who are they, and why are they angry?
feature What a new CBS/New York Times poll revealed about the demographic makeup of the Tea Party movement.
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Health care: The return of ‘death panels’
feature Last week President Obama authorized new Medicare rules that include paying for end-of-life consultations between doctors and patients—if the patient wants to have that talk.
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The tax deal: Who outmaneuvered whom?
feature Obama worked into the tax deal a 13-month extension of unemployment benefits and a one-year, 2 percent cut in the Social Security payroll tax.
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WikiLeaks: A public service, or a public menace?
feature “It is not our goal to achieve a more transparent society,” Assange recently told Time, “it’s our goal to achieve a more just society.”
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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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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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