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 By common consent one of America’s two or three greatest newspapers, The Washington Post is particularly celebrated for its coverage of American politics. Its opinion pages are home to some of America’s most prominent commentators, including George Will, Robert Novak, and Charles Krauthammer on the right, David Broder in the center, and E.J. Dionne, Jr., and Harold Meyerson on the left. Meyerson began his weekly (usually Wednesday) column there in March of 2003, just as the Iraqi War was beginning.
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Obama’s new immigration plan: Good policy, great politics
June 15, 2012
Washington Post
The Obama Administration’s announcement today that it will cease deportations of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came or were brought here as children and meet certain other conditions is one of those rare masterstrokes that is both eminently good policy and great politics to boot.
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What happens if America loses its unions
June 12, 2012
Washington Post
Are American unions history?
In the wake of labor’s defeated effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) last week, both pro- and anti-union pundits have opined that unions are in an all-but-irreversible decline. Privately, a number of my friends and acquaintances in the labor movement have voiced similar sentiments. Most don’t think that decline is irreversible but few have any idea how labor would come back.
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To the barricades with Chuck Lane
June 07, 2012
Washington Post
I don’t for a moment want to diminish the glee that my colleague Chuck Lane is feeling over Scott Walker’s victory in Wisconsin, or the schadenfreude evident in his taunting of such benighted Walker foes as Katrina vanden Heuvel and me. The occasions for such an emotional release are, I can attest, rare in the life of the pundit, and Chuck is entitled to his.
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Unions wield new power as shareholders
June 05, 2012
Washington Post
Whatever the outcome of Tuesday’s recall election of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), the U.S. labor movement will remain in dire straits. Its problem isn’t that Americans have turned against unions but that labor’s power to better workers’ lives through representing them in the workplace or championing them at the ballot box has been diminished by dysfunctional labor laws and pro-corporate court decisions.
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Wisconsin recall no, Obama yes
June 05, 2012
Washington Post
The very same exit poll that shows Wisconsin voters narrowly declining to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker also has some good news for President Obama: Those voters, asked to choose between Obama and Mitt Romney, would go decisively for Obama. The exit poll shows Obama would carry Wisconsin by a 52-percent-to-43-percent margin over the former Massachusetts governor.
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America’s dysfunctional capitalism
May 24, 2012
Washington Post
Another day, another display of the dysfunctions of American capitalism.
On Wednesday, some understandably disgruntled investors filed suit in federal court against Facebook and several of the big banks that promoted its stock sale. The lawsuit alleges that the social media giant and the banks “selectively disclosed” to “certain preferred investors” the fact that Facebook’s financial prospects weren’t as bright as the public had been led to understand.
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