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'Empathy': Does it belong on the Supreme Court?
feature Will empathy bring bias to judicial decision making?
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Obama and Iran: Did he fail the protest movement?
feature Should President Obama have voiced more support for the protesters in Iran?
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Murder in Washington: Part of a frightening pattern?
feature With the murder of Stephen Tyrone Johns, a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the Department of Homeland Security's warning about right-wing extremists now seems prescient.
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Palin: Why she bailed out of Alaska
feature Is Sarah Palin's ability to govern Alaska hamstrung by a series of ethics violations and legal bills or is she searching for a larger stage?
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Obama’s trip: Is Europe’s approval meaningful?
feature The Obamas "wowed" the Europeans and their leaders, but how this approval will translate into setting policy remains to be seen.
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Geithner: Is he up to the job?
feature Timothy Geithner was hailed as the right man for the position of treasury secretary, but after just several months he is fighting for his political life.
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Obama: Is his inexperience showing?
feature The country's charismatic and normally unflappable president is stumbling, just weeks into his administration.
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Republicans: Is there a path back to power?
feature With about only 23 percent of Americans now identifying themselves as Republicans, the GOP has begun a painful internal debate over how to return to popularity and power.
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Closing Guantánamo: Easier said than done
feature President Obama ordered the U.S. detention center in Cuba closed within a year, but disposing of the 241 remaining detainees poses major legal and logistical problems.
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Piracy: How should the civilized world respond?
feature This year alone, Somali pirates have mounted more than 60 attacks on vessels, and they hold more than a dozen ships and 200 crew members hostage.
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Guantánamo: Is Obama just a more eloquent Bush?
feature While President Obama is sticking to his plan to close Guantánamo, he tacitly acknowledges the enormous legal and practical problems that it presents.
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Joe Wilson’s war: Why are conservatives so angry?
feature President Obama declared in his address to Congress that his proposals wouldn’t apply to illegal aliens, when South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson shocked the House by pointing at the president and shouting, “You lie!&r
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Michael Vick: Does he deserve a second chance?
feature Michael Vick has signed with the Philadelphia Eagles after serving 18 months in prison for his role in running a dogfighting ring.
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Obama’s pep talk: The tempest in a classroom
feature In spite of the initial uproar, when President Obama finally gave his highly anticipated pep talk to the nation’s schoolchildren, there was barely a peep of protest.
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