Opinion
OPINION: Five bailout lessons from Katrina
December 29, 2008The U.S. has committed nearly $3 trillion to the financial bailout so far. The Federal Reserve has made more than $2 trillion in emergency loans and another $700 billion has been pledged through congressional action. Much...
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OPINION: Guns, butter, and Obama
December 24, 2008Over the next several months there will be a battle for hearts and minds, but not in Iraq or Afghanistan. The war will be here at home, waged mostly in the halls of Congress, where grim...
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LETTERS December 20, 2008
December 22, 2008Good luck, Mr. President-elect Imagine coming upon a scene of rape, pillage and desecration. What to do? That’s what the new president-elect faces as he prepares to assume the presidency after George W. Bush’s “reign of...
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EDITORIAL: The peoples train
December 22, 2008What do Oklahoma teenager Matt Webber, the Tuskegee Airmen, Tim Robbins, Seal, Spike Lee, Elvis Costello, Susan Sarandon, Sting and the Lesbian and Gay Band Association have in common? All, along with up to 4 million...
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A peace policy for South Asia
December 22, 2008A few weeks ago, terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai caught the attention of the world. What were the historical roots of these attacks?
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