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By Steven Mufson, on February 19th, 2012 The Republican presidential campaign is breathing new life into the Founding Fathers. In recent months, Republican candidates have invoked these original American statesmen to provide powerful political precedents on issues as diverse as the “Me Generation,” inequality, the legalization of marijuana, the policies of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, foreign military intervention, same-sex marriage and religion in public life. And although in real life they often bitterly disagreed with one another, the newly imagined Founding Fathers have reached a surprising degree of harmony in the minds of the GOP presidential candidates on these contemporary matters — many of which were unimaginable in an era of horse-drawn carriages, kerosene lamps and powdered wigs. Read full article > >
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By , on December 30th, 2011 On Nov. 6, America’s presidential election will produce a winner and a loser. But it may take decades to know who was which. The Iowa caucuses on Tuesday are the first formal step in winnowing the GOP field for that general-election matchup with President Obama. Certainly, every candidate — from surging Rep. Ron Paul of Texas to Republican establishment favorite Mitt Romney — wants to win. But winning an election is a narrow definition of success. A triumphant candidate may be stuck in the policies of the past and become no more than a footnote to history; the losing candidate can be prophetic and end up transforming our politics. Read full article > >
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By , on November 21st, 2010 When people the world over think of Arizona nowadays, they generally think of Governor Jan Brewer, Sheriff Joe Arpaio or state representative Russell Pearce – the poster children of the state’s move toward legalized discrimination and racial profiling. If they are closely following the politics of the Sun State, they also think of state superintendent of schools, Tom Horne, the architect of the state’s move to abolish Ethnic/Raza Studies. Here, we think of the vast human toll of the policies promoted by these powerful few. read more
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