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“Nationalization” re-enters the American vocabulary

The Republicans’ operative definition of “patriotism”; everyone calling the President the “Commander-in-Chief”; having to rely on comedians to ask national leaders the tough questions; and the press’ seeming loss of the ability to fact-check.

Polls suggesting that Democrats have a big disadvantage generally in national security affairs need to examined carefully because it’s not quite that simple.

Obama sounded like a President and a serious leader. McCain sounded like a cranky old man who operates on Bircher conspiracy theories and can hardly focus on an issue.

Gene Lyons looks at the current tone of the Republican campaign in light of the Party’s record over the last two decades

The financial crisis presents Obama and the Democrats a tremendous opportunity – if they can manage to rise to the task

Marureen Dowd”s bizarre twice-weekly column in the New York Times has to be one of the strangest and saddest phenemena in mainstream American journalism right now

German historian Norbert Frei has a new book on “the 68ers”, which in German means roughly what “the Sixties” means in Germany

Business reporting in the mainstream may not be as dysfuntional as political reporting. But it’s not exactly the best imaginable, either.

McCain’s statement in Tuesday’s debate, “America is the greatest force for good in the history of the world” points to the real religion for which today’s Republican stands: war-oriented nationalism.