Ari Melber
By Ari Melber
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Opinion ‘Lieberman Democrats’ Have No Place In an Opposition Party
Politicians of all stripes were outraged when news first broke about the Dubai port deal, but not Senator Joseph Lieberman. Declaring that it was “not yet” time to block the deal, Lieberman distinguished himself as one of the few legislators — and the only prominent Democrat — to support the Bush administration in the firestorm…
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Culture You Spin Me Right ’Round A New Book Laces Into the Marketing of Politics
All the President’s Spin: George W. Bush, the Media and the Truth By Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer and Brendan Nyhan Touchstone, 352 pages, $11.20. * * *| Many people have accused President Bush of misleading the American public. The editors of Spinsanity.com, a nonpartisan Web site “dedicated to debunking political spin and fact-checking the media,”…
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Culture It’s the Economy, Stupid! (and Morality and Patriotism and…. )
Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America By Robert Reich Knopf, 272 pages, $24. * * *| Robert Reich has played many roles: professor, writer, bureaucrat, labor secretary and political candidate. Now he is joining the ranks of celebrity-authors peddling punchy, polemic, liberal books for this active political season. His goal is to…
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Opinion The Iraq Syndrome
On Sunday, the Baghdad hotel housing many of the top occupation officials was pummeled by rockets, and gunmen assassinated one of the capital’s three deputy mayors. The next day, suicide bombers attacked the Red Cross headquarters and four Baghdad police stations, killing at least 34 and wounding more than 200. The violence is designed to…
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Opinion Higher Education’s ‘Iron Law of Admissions’
All the talk surrounding this week’s Supreme Court ruling upholding affirmative action at the University of Michigan’s law school has ignored one fact of higher education: White students with low grades also get in. The focus on racial preferences usually obscures the many elite preferences for upper class supporters of higher education. Obeying the “Iron…
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