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Strange Oversight
Matthew Yglesias — ... conflict, with over 25 years of service in the field. And he says: In 25 years of working on this issue for six secretaries of state, I can’t recall one meeting where we had a serious discussion with an Israeli prime minister about the damage that settlement activity—including land confiscation, bypass roads and housing demolitions—does to the peacemaking process. There is a need to impose some accountability. Todd Gitlin writely calls this “shocking.” Kevin Drum says “It’s sort of hard to ...

Stimulate the Economy by Mending Our Safety Nets
The Hollywood Liberal — Stimulate the Economy by Mending Our Safety Nets Lots of talk this week about the proposed stimulus. One high priority ought to be the most vulnerable members of our society. The safety net created in the 1930s to protect Americans from extreme poverty is in tatters. Now that… [image] [image] Obama’s Middle East Burden–and Opportunity Longtime State Department Middle East specialist Aaron David Miller on the outlook there, and the test for Obama: Despite efforts to sound reassuring during the campaign, the new administration will have to be tough, much tougher than either Bill Clinton… [image] [image] [image] [image] ...