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Politics

Product placement.

Joan Vennochi reviews the packaging of Wesley Clark’s nine opponents.

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Economics Journalism Politics

Discuss.

Recommended reading.

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Politics

General interest.

Gen. Wesley Clark may announce his candidacy for the presidency as early as tomorrow.

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Culture Politics

American idle.

“American Idol” Ruben Studdard tried to rouse Alabama’s black voters to Riley’s cause in a concert for 10,000 people on Friday, but didn’t bother to stump for the tax reform measure itself.

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Christianity in America Conservatism Journalism Politics

Beam in the eye.

Why have the media paid so little attention to Gov. Riley’s crusade to reform Alabama’s regressive tax code?

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Liberalism Politics

Dean and the Democrats.

Is Howard Dean going to ride the insurgent wave into the White House? I doubt it.

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Human Rights Liberalism Politics

Civil rights movements.

Winning “powerful new rights not in the streets but through the work of bureaucrats, lawyers, and judges.”

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Liberalism Politics Unitarian Universalism

Liberal realism.

“The realist is anti-utopian, skeptical, and, while in no sense passive, acts from the conviction that while there are many wrongs that do indeed need to be righted, and many causes worth defending, not everything is possible.”

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Christianity in America Politics

Doubtless.

“A contempt for doubt is a contempt for thought.”

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Politics

Parenting and politicians.

Selections from “Tips for Talking about President Bush with Your Children.”