Latest articles by Robert Shrum
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The Santelli contagion
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Heroes and villains of health reform
feature It's not over—yet. But here's how history will record the profiles in courage and cowardice we've witnessed in the health-reform battle.
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Noonan's fake history lesson for Obama
opinion In a recent Wall Street Journal column, Peggy Noonan counseled our ever-ambitious President to focus on leaving a legacy that can be reduced to one sentence—a specious notion borrowed from former Republican Congresswoman Clare Boothe L
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Palin won't be GOP nominee in 2012
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For Obama, the hard part begins
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The hour of phony populism
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The lies of August
opinion The stakes are high and Republicans are stooping low. But if health reform falters as a result of GOP demagoguery, Democrats may face a reconstituted Gingrich coalition in 2010.
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Race-baiting the President
opinion Rubert Murdoch, Matt Drudge, and their followers sought to use the Gates imbroglio as a racial rallying cry against Obama. With health-care reform on the line, defusing the hysteria was worth a beer.
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In praise of earmarks
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Taking Sarah Palin seriously
feature I used to joke about her. But I won't anymore
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Is America still a serious nation?
feature A visit to Southeast Asia evokes memories of our folly-filled past — and serves as a reminder of the critical issues we face today
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Will Democrats fumble health reform?
feature Abortion and the tax on "Cadillac" health plans are still contentious issues, and the special election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat is heightening Democratic anxiety. In this sudden death overtime, there's no margin for error.
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Cheney demands a Torture Commission
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Smear Britannia: Conservatives open a new front on health care
opinion In their effort to destroy health-care reform in the U.S., conservatives have been heaping lies upon government-run health care in the U.K. Britons would never surrender their National Health System. Once Democrats pass reform here, Americans won
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The GOP decline starts Phase Two
opinion Republicans seem to be enjoying their August delirium and perhaps they should. For them, it only gets worse from here as the economy improves and Democrats ride growth—and their enactment of health-care reform—into the midte
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Britain proves the folly of GOP economics
feature First slash spending. Then watch the economy contract
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The GOP's dangerous arrogance
feature An American default – or deliberate descent into another economic crisis – is unthinkable to most of global civil society. What great nation would do this to itself – or everyone else?
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Cheney's charge up the molehill
opinion The last recourse of the rear-guard, the only answer they have left, is that at least the nation has not been attacked at home since 2001. This is a blatant shift in their argument that reflects their fall from power. In office, they constantly w
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Krugman and Douthat both wrong on Kennedy
opinion The Op-Ed page of The New York Times published two columns on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on the same day. From Paul Krugman on the Left, and Ross Douthat on the Right, we got two fistfuls of error.
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David Brooks' neo-Hooverite plea
feature The conservative N.Y. Times columnist is politely asking Obama to ignore basic economics, ignore the bond markets, and ignore Nobel laureate Paul Krugman — and to please steer the economy into a ditch
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The Taliban GOP
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The race-based GOP
opinion Republican attacks on Sonia Sotomayor are poisoning "the soul of what used to be the Party of Lincoln"
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Does the GOP stand for anything?
feature Republicans have concluded that by opposing everything, they can end up winning in 2010 and 2012. But can a party with no platform succeed?
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Bye bipartisanship
feature With his televised dominance of debate, Obama has invented a new style of presidential leadership. But on health care, the time has come for confrontation, not conciliation.
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