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Among the first paintings Htein Lin made during his 61/2 years in a Burmese prison was a self-portrait. The likeness is only passing - he had no mirror in his cell - and the line is uncertain: in lieu of a brush, he used the pieces of a disassembled cigarette lighter...
From the ashes, though, Obama could see a way out. The only ward he had won was the largely white working-class Irish Catholic 19th ward, where the local party organization had endorsed Rush but a state legislator, Tom Dart, broke ranks for Obama. Dart walked the precincts and marched...
With Hull and Hynes likely to split the white vote, Obama would need blanket support from African Americans. But in seven years in Springfield, he was best known for passing ethics reform. The GOP majority hadn't made it any easier to pass social-justice legislation. Now Jones was in...
Wow. Watching the junior Senator from New York, I was of two minds. My high-minded policy brain was, of course, appalled. The gas-tax holiday was a scam. It had been tried at various times - Barack Obama had voted for a local version in the Illinois legislature - and prices...
The debate over taxation of colleges and universities is longstanding, but last week, Massachusetts did well to prevent the state from gaining ground in taxing schools. The Massachusetts House of Representatives recently stopped an amendment from passing that would have allowed the state to tax universities with endowments larger than...