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...years later, such programming stunts are the purview of Fox News, and Maher is conducting a surprisingly high-minded conversation on his HBO show, Real Time, now in its fifth season. He still mixes celebrity with punditry, but guests come from the Meet the Press side of the ledger: Sen. John Kerry, counter-terrorism expert Richard Clarke, comedian/actor Robin Williams, and talk show host Chris Matthews. TIME's Ana Marie Cox called Maher in Los Angeles to see what's changed...
...idea to revisit the original war authorization was first proposed by Sen. Edward Kennedy in January and has been bouncing around the Senate chamber for a few weeks, talked up at various points by different Democratic senators. It was ignored chiefly because it had virtually no chance of winning any Republican votes - and that fact hasn't changed...
...York Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71, who had delivered a speech at NYU just the previous evening, condemned the CRs’ event as “obnoxious.” Many Republicans, too, assuredly share this Democrat’s irritation...
...Illinois Sen. Barack H. Obama is one big effervescent bubble of enthusiasm and integrity. And, after a presidential election in which the best that Washington had to offer was a bumbling Bush, a cadaverous Kerry, and a deranged Dean, he is exactly what our citizens are starving for. More than ever, the American public needs its messiah, and Barack, blessed with the chance to project himself as new, green, and uncorrupted, has been clever enough to slip easily into the role of savior...
...progressive legal thought. Earlier this month, the students launched the Harvard Law & Policy Review in hopes of promoting discussion among liberal progressives, according to the journal’s editor-in-chief and co-founder, James H. Weingarten. The publication’s inaugural issue featured an article by Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71 on congressional power in the 21st century. Schumer, New York’s senior Democratic senator and a Harvard Law graduate, argues that one of the new Democratic majority’s top priorities should be restoring accountability in government...