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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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In a newsroom, you see right away that a high percentage of people who would like you to write about them — people with serious grievances of all kinds, against the cops or the city or the hospital or whatever — are at least a little bit crazy. Unfortunately, Read More...
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I'm with Maureen Dowd today: The Obama who talks of grays and of complicated legacies and long evolutions, not just of high hopes and change, is my kind of guy. See, there's a reason the campaign isn't over yet — we need to see this man dealing with more Read More...
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However Obama's speech plays out, Hillary Clinton's No. 1 surrogate, Bill, has weighed in again on race. He said the idea that he has said anything racially insensitive during the campaign (particularly comparing Obama's win in South Carolina to Jesse Read More...
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Today’s NYT cover story on Obama’s late mother , Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, contains one passage that gave me a sinking feeling: In Hawaii she married an African student at age 18. Then she married an Indonesian, moved to Jakarta, became an anthropologist, Read More...
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Wouldn't you love to know the back story on Paul Krugman's column today? Because without knowing that his real beef is that his wife can't stop singing "Yes, we can," or maybe that his idiot nephew won't shut up about how all the cool people are on the Read More...
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Here's one daughter's-eye view of the daughter now speaking out on the campaign trail: My teenager dismisses the idea that Chelsea suddenly has marching orders. Chelsea never felt she had to speak up or play a political role before, my daughter points Read More...
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I don't guess I have ever seen The View —even if we are a sort of online homage to their caffeinated trailblazing. (Only, who is our Elisabeth?) But on yesterday's show, Whoopi and Joy and Sherri went where no Washington reporter has ever dared to tread; Read More...
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I feel sort of sorry for the Republicans today as they face the end of their interlude of disarray. And I can't share the editorialists ' dour view of the bruising fight ahead for the Democrats, whose race is still so unsettled. Here's to continued dithering! Read More...
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Dahlia, you got that right : Putting prospective first ladies in red suits is a none-too-subtle code meant to evoke the administration that's currently back in nostalgic vogue. Nancy Reagan wore the color so often (usually in that same fire-engine shade Read More...
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To return to a previous point: Meghan , at least you're in North America! To watch this particular primary race from Europe has been a distinctly odd experience. On the one hand, it's fantasically frustrating, almost homesick-making, to be so far away Read More...
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So, Chris Matthews apologized—at length—for his Hillary comments (which XX Factor discussed here and here ). Here’s the video . I’m sure that now a chorus of laments will ring out in the world at large about how PC nags forced him into this. But let’s Read More...
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Dahlia , amen. Racism and sexism are issues in the campaign, no doubt, but they're not the central issues, and playing the game of who-has-it-worst could end up in a form of Mutually Assured Destruction. Luckily, the candidates themselves seem to have Read More...
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