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...many in this nation to see President Barack H. Obama occupy a middle ground, embodying a healthy marriage of curiosity and conviction. The administration’s decision to make sweeping changes to the federal budget suggested a vigorous defense of an answer he gave on the campaign trail. But other moves, such as the recent nomination of Judge Sonia M. Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, whom most legal analysts do not consider a liberal intellectual heavyweight to counter Justice Antonin G. Scalia, or the decision to delay repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, suggest...
Barack Obama's clumsiest misstep on the campaign trail--his infamous reference to "bitter" small-town voters clinging to guns and religion--would have gone unnoticed if not for the sharp ears and ready laptop of blogger Mayhill Fowler. Her scoop blindsided professional reporters and roiled the primary race--one of many instances in which Internet muckrakers made a difference in the campaign, argues Eric Boehlert. The former Salon and Rolling Stone writer calls this liberal "netroots" movement the strongest political force since the Christian right--one that, oddly, draws scant attention from the mainstream press. Boehlert finds engaging stories...
...leave, but we had to talk into a camera and take a picture of the flag. We were meant to take pictures of seven sponsored items, including the satellite phone, but nobody had enough feeling to do any of that. (Watch TIME's video "Trekking Lebanon's Mountain Trail...
...change their apparent alliance represents. As the U.S. Latino population began to mushroom in the 1980s and minority competition for employment and resources became more acute, the black-brown divide turned into a chasm. Many blacks viewed Latinos as interlopers getting a free ride on the civil-rights trail African-Americans had blazed; Latinos resented the notion that they were merely junior partners in minority politics, that their own demands for good jobs, schools and neighborhoods were somehow considered gate-crashing...
...federal district judge in 1991, just a year after he elevated Souter, so she will come to her confirmation hearings not just as the child of Puerto Rican parents who went from public housing to Princeton, but also as a judge with a nearly 17-year paper trail of decisions...