NOVEMBER 12, 2010 Five of my colleagues at Novaya Gazeta have been murdered. No one has been brought to justice. By ELENA MILASHINA Moscow As a journalist for Russia’s leading independent newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, I have been lucky. For over a decade I’ve had the privilege to report extensively on dramatic current events in my […]
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NOVEMBER 10, 2010 The GOP’s Racial Challenge Republicans can’t win in the future without more nonwhite votes. By ZOLTAN HAJNAL Lost in the GOP’s euphoria over its landslide midterm victory is the fact that the Republican Party has almost become a whites-only party. Its strategy may win seats now, but it will lose over the
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NOVEMBER 8, 2010 How Medicare Killed the Family Doctor Low government payment rates became the private-sector benchmark, resulting in fragmented care. By RICHARD M. HANNON I work for a health-insurance company, and my brother is a primary-care physician. As he tells it, my industry is responsible for the death of his. Insurance companies, he argues,
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NOVEMBER 8, 2010 California: The Lindsay Lohan of States Sacramento is headed for trouble again, and it shouldn’t expect a bailout. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Listen up, California. The other 48 states—your cousin New York excluded—are sick of your bratty arrogance. You’re the Lindsay Lohan of states: a prima donna who once showed some talent but
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NOVEMBER 8, 2010 ‘Net Neutrality’ Goes 0 for 95 Regulating the Web wasn’t a political winner last week. By L. GORDON CROVITZ As a reminder of unpredictability in politics, consider what happened when the Progressive Change Campaign Committee last month announced that 95 candidates for Congress had signed a pledge to support “net neutrality.” The
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TECHNOLOGY NOVEMBER 5, 2010 Security Fears Kill Chinese Bid in U.S. By JOANN S. LUBLIN and SHAYNDI RAICE Sprint Nextel Corp. is excluding Chinese telecommunications-equipment makers Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. from a contract worth billions of dollars largely because of national security concerns in Washington, according to people familiar with the matter. A
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NOVEMBER 2, 2010 Why Obama Is No Roosevelt Roosevelt: ‘Your government has unmistakable confidence in your ability to hear the worst without flinching and losing heart.’ Obama: We don’t ‘always think clearly when we’re scared.’ By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ Whatever the outcome of today’s election, this much is clear: It will be a long time before
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NOVEMBER 3, 2010 Welcome, Senate Conservatives Remember what the voters back home want—less government and more freedom. By JIM DEMINT Congratulations to all the tea party-backed candidates who overcame a determined, partisan opposition to win their elections. The next campaign begins today. Because you must now overcome determined party insiders if this nation is going
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OCTOBER 28, 2010 A Referendum on the Redeemer Barack Obama put the Democrats in the position of forever redeeming a fallen nation rather than leading a great one. By SHELBY STEELE Whether or not the Republicans win big next week, it is already clear that the “transformative” aspirations of the Obama presidency—the special promise of
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OCTOBER 22, 2010 NPR’s Taxpayer-Funded Intolerance All Americans, particularly those of Arab or Muslim descent, should protest the firing of Juan Williams. By EMILIO KARIM DABUL NPR’s firing of commentator Juan Williams this week is one of the worst examples of rush to judgment since 9/11. Mr. Williams, whether one tends to agree with him
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