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12 February 2009
Can we find ideas — political ideas — big enough to be worthy of this moment?

You know, before the cynicism and the disappointment and the...
07 February 2009
Rest assured, there are powerful interests that will not put up with an Obama presidency if it’s about even half the changes it threatens — I mean, promises —...
22 January 2009
No matter how much celebrity they try to infuse him with, Barack Obama remains, somehow, as unassuming — so it appears — as that picture of him, which made the...
20 January 2009
“Mr. Ban said too many people had died and there had been too much civilian suffering.”

That almost bears repeating, but I won’t because I don’t...
07 January 2009
"Surely, they say, there must, there has to be another way of doing this."

OK, let's start here, with this flicker of anguish, this quick stab of...
01 January 2009
The tight, absurd parameters of “peace,” as they are drawn by the military model we continue to believe in, make real peace —neither bitter nor temporary —...

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