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Politics can be a rough game. Candidates need to hold their competitors accountable and challenge distortions and lies. And God knows, we…
Paul Rogat Loeb
Paul Rogat Loeb is the author of Soul of a Citizen and The Impossible Will Take a Little While, with nearly 300,000 in print between them.
Maybe Hillary Clinton’s right that going back to the candidates’ past illuminates their character. I’m not sure we need to know whether…
Ever since Hillary Clinton supported the reckless Kyl-Lieberman Iran bill, her Democratic competitors have been blasting her for her stand, and rightly…
With the Senate embracing the reckless Kyl-Lieberman amendment, we’ve moved one step closer to attacking Iran. But there’s still time for Congress…
It’s hard to keep up with the crazed weather. As I write, a heat wave has killed over 50 people in the…
Do you remember the Fugitive Slave Act? It criminalized not only slaves who’d escaped to non-slave states, but also anyone who helped…
Through the actions of a lone man with an unstable mental history, the Middle East wars have hit my community. Naveed Haq,…
As the evidence of global warming becomes inescapable, I fear Americans will switch instead to a fatalistic pessimism. Maybe it’s real and…
“We fought the good fight,” Jeff Skilling said, standing strong after he and “Kenny Boy” Lay were convicted of defrauding Enron stockholders.…
People marched in Seattle for immigrant rights, like the two million people elsewhere, because families and futures were at stake. We didn’t…