Controversies
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Voter fraud: How real a threat?
feature In 13 states, officials are investigating ACORN for possible voter registration fraud and the GOP has unleashed its own efforts to intimidate poor and minority citizens who vote Democratic.
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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 Catholic Church: A crisis of confidence
feature Was the pope complicit in covering up sexual abuse scandals when he served as a cardinal and an archbishop?
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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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Obama: Did he mishandle the oil spill?
feature It may be unfair to blame Obama for the oil spill, but he will probably pay a steep political price for the environmental catastrophe nonetheless.
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Rand Paul: The promise and perils of libertarianism
feature The extreme, anti-government ideology of Paul and other Tea Party candidates may scare off the independent voters Republicans need to win seats in the Senate and the House this fall.
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Sherrod: Our continuing obsession with race
feature The incident over Shirley Sherrod shows that racial animus continues, in spite of the nation electing its first black president.
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Gay marriage: A case of fundamental rights?
feature A federal judge threw out California's Proposition 8, arguing that it violated gay citizens’ rights to due process and equal protection under the law.
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