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30 October 2008
President-elect Obama . . .

I’m daring my own heart to write these words, to let hope’s preview ignite me for an instant. Despite all my...
22 October 2008
Two seconds of radio news was enough — suddenly the 2008 presidential campaign collapsed around me in an unrecognizable heap of consumer politics as I ate...
17 October 2008
Here’s the difference between vote fraud, which is real, and voter fraud, which, though almost nonexistent, has instantly gripped the popular imagination:...
08 October 2008
Call it, what, our crapshoot democracy?

The looming election — the process itself, not merely the feints and jabs of the candidates — is actually...
04 October 2008
The “necessary war” in Afghanistan, which both presidential candidates support — the one, you know, that’s really about terrorists and Osama and all — raises...
04 September 2008
Call it creative self-destruction, maybe.

How surreal it’s been this week to watch the Republicans reap a small portion of the divine comeuppance...

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