Eugene Robinson
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A page has been turnedMay 02, 2011 12:00 am - The flag-waving, horn-honking crowd that converged at the White House Sunday night was brimming with unrestrained joy, unmitigated patriotism and a sense of unlimited po...
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What the people are saying counts mostApr 28, 2011 12:00 am - What is it about the word “jobs” that our nation’s leaders fail to understand? How has the most painful economic crisis in decades somehow escaped their notice? Why do t...
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Providing a field manual for despotsApr 24, 2011 12:00 am - If I were a Middle Eastern despot, I’d know how to handle the pro-democracy movement that threatens my rule: Crack down viciously, using deadly force against civilians, ...
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What kind of America do we want?Apr 18, 2011 11:00 pm - It was refreshing to hear all those unambiguous declarations during President Obama’s speech last week. “I will not” let Medicare become a voucher program or deprive fam...
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Crazy talk is today's political currencyApr 13, 2011 12:00 am - Far-right Republicans are winning the budget wars because they understand something that nobody else in Washington seems to grasp: The old truism about politics being th...
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Trumped by political failureApr 07, 2011 12:00 am - In political terms, who has the most to lose from this appalling brinkmanship over a federal government shutdown? House Speaker John Boehner? President Obama? Senate Dem...
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Ignoring the useful tyrantsMar 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Anyone looking for principle and logic in the attack on Moammar Gadhafi’s tyrannical regime will be disappointed. President Obama and his advisers should acknowledge the...
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Ignoring the useful tyrantsMar 25, 2011 12:00 am - Anyone looking for principle and logic in the attack on Moammar Gadhafi's tyrannical regime will be disappointed. President Obama and his advisers should acknowledge the...
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Nuclear waste’s toxic legacyMar 19, 2011 6:00 pm - The most urgent focus of Japan’s worsening nuclear crisis is the threat from radioactive fuel that has already been used in the Fukushima Daiichi reactors and awaits dis...
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The wrong approach against extremismMar 11, 2011 11:00 pm - “There is nothing radical or un-American in holding these hearings,” Republican Rep. Peter King of New York claimed Thursday, as he launched his McCarthyite probe of Ame...