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Run, Russ, Run

"What do the next two years hold?” I asked in my col­umn in The Nation, right after the November 2 elec­tions. “Already there are desperate…

Valley People

THE SAD NEWS reached us Sunday that Carroll Pratt had suf­fered a terrible fall at his Philo home, injuring himself so severely he had to…

The Twilight of Obama-Time

The sun rises this week on a new American land­scape, the same way it rose on a new American land­scape almost exactly two years ago.…

The Sissy Left: Wimps Can’t Win

When did the American left become such sissies? We are shocked, shocked! We throw up our hands in horror, cowering behind prissy words like “divisive”…

This is What Success Looks Like

The last American combat brigade in Iraq has left the country, so the Pentagon announced this week. The 40,000 personnel from 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd…

Hopes Dimming: The Predicament of ShoreBank

The Obama Administration’s treatment of its current majority ownership of bailed out General Motors and its standoffishness toward the pioneering but troubled ShoreBank, a community…

Skidding Toward Fall

This economy has a destination for sure, but it's not in the direction where all eyes are trained in moist hopefulness: that glimmering horizon of…

Do Disclosures Of Atrocities Change Anything?

The hope of the brave soldier who sent 92,000 secret US documents to Wikileaks was that their disclosure would prompt public revulsion and increasing political…

Obama’s Afghan Formula: Peace Through War

The war in Afghanistan is nearly nine years old — the longest in American history. After the US quickly toppled the Taliban regime in October…

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