Clinton Backs Barack and Biden...Finally
Talking Points Memo : Presidential Election 2008
Bill Clinton thinks the vice presidency will be more important than ever in the next four years--and his bet's on Joe Biden
2008
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The Working-Class Vote in Ohio
Brett Story & VideoNation : US Politics & Government
What issues matter to Ohio's blue-collar voters? JoAnn Wypijewski reports from the campaign trail.
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Bill and Hill's Dangerous Game
Nicholas von Hoffman : Hillary Clinton
The Clintons cannot compete with the enthusiasm Obama sets off so they are trying to destroy it. They just may succeed--but at an awful price.
2006
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Get Me Rewrite
Mark Updegrove : Journalists & Journalism
Bill Clinton maintains that the mainstream media has misrepresented his record on fighting terror. But it will take a generation to meaningfully assess his effectiveness.
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Clinton's Blindness on Welfare Reform
You'd think Bill Clinton doesn't know the difference between getting mothers and their children off the welfare rolls and getting them out of poverty.
2005
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Middlemarch
The GOP is an object of popular loathing, yet prospects seem dim for ousting it from power. Three new books explain why: Off Center explores the GOP's genius for subverting the mechanisms of accountability, and Death by a Thousand Cuts and Stand Up Fight Back examine how the Republican machine dominates issues from tax cuts to energy conservation. Plus, the Clinton biography The Survivor looks at the man who once made liberals feel like winners, yet whose legacy holds them back.
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Clinton Agonistes
Eric Alterman : Media Analysis
John Harris's history of the Clinton Administration deserves much of the praise it has received, but it ignores the media's anti-Clinton animus.
2004
2003
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Still Clinton's Show?
William Greider : Democratic Party
If the Democratic Party is to find a sense of purpose, it must get beyond Bill Clinton's influence.
2002
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Subverting the UN
Richard Falk & David Krieger : United Nations
To save the UN from the White House's destructive unilateralism, other key nations will have to stand up to its bullying.
2001
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Powell's Secret Coup
Christopher Hitchens : US Military
Colin Powell's appointment is a worrisome indicator of the militarization of the State Department.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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