Controversies
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Terrorism
feature Why hasn’t the U.S. been hit again?
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Iraq
feature Is Bush preparing the way for withdrawal?
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Iraq
feature Can this nation be saved?
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Iraq
feature Is there a good reason for staying?
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Global warming: Do ‘green’ initiatives matter?
feature George W. Bush has blown his final chance on climate change, said The Washington Post in an editorial. With only nine months left in office, the president still had time to correct his “terrible legacy of inaction” on global
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McClellan’s memoir: Why did he blow the whistle?
feature “Now he tells us,” said The Philadelphia Inquirer in an editorial. When he served as George W. Bush’s press secretary for three years, Scott McClellan heatedly defended his boss, the Iraq war, and the administrati
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The economy: Is the stimulus plan already too late?
feature "You know we have a crisis,
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Star Wars: Why did the U.S. shoot down a satellite?
feature It was a story that could have ended very badly, said Mona Charen in National Review Online. Some 153 miles overhead, the
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Bush: How will history judge him?
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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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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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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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‘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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