Eugene Robinson
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Our robotic assassinsJul 06, 2011 1:00 am - The skies over at least six countries are patrolled by robotic aircraft, operated by the U.S. military or the CIA, that fire missiles to carry out targeted assassination...
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Don’t make the economy worseJul 03, 2011 12:00 am - There is no good reason for negotiations on the budget and the debt ceiling to be deadlocked, because the solution is obvious: First, do no harm. The Hippocratic injunc...
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Why does the war go on?Jun 26, 2011 12:00 am - Some heard a declaration of victory, others an admission of defeat. The many contradictions in President Obama’s speech about Afghanistan last week were perhaps intended...
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No escaping the obviousJun 21, 2011 12:00 am - It’s an irony of the modern age that the most devastating kind of sex scandal, at least for politicians, doesn’t involve actual sex. As Rep. Anthony Weiner has learned. ...
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Declare victory in Afghanistan and leaveJun 11, 2011 12:00 am - Slender threads of hope are nice but do not constitute a plan. Nor do they justify continuing to pour American lives and resources into the bottomless pit of Afghanistan...
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Doping is a matter of conscience, not lawMay 31, 2011 4:00 am - Let’s suppose the new doping allegations against cyclist Lance Armstrong are true. Should his seven Tour de France victories be marked with an asterisk, or even erased? ...
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A Medicare moment for RepublicansMay 26, 2011 5:00 am - Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the architect of the Republicans’ radical plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program, gave a lesson Sunday in stating the obvious: “I don’...
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Mr. Big takes a perp walkMay 19, 2011 12:00 am - It’s almost enough to give socialism a bad name. We don’t know whether Dominique Strauss-Kahn — who headed the International Monetary Fund before resigning Wednesday an...
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The president’s Luke Skywalker momentMay 15, 2011 12:00 am - With the nation transfixed by the daring raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the first GOP presidential debate transpired with relatively little notice. For Republicans, t...
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Torture is still tortureMay 09, 2011 12:00 am - It wasn’t torture that revealed Osama bin Laden’s hiding place. Finding and killing the world’s most-wanted terrorist took years of patient intelligence gathering and do...