We rushed to pass a bad law in the wake of 9/11.  The unsurprising consequences are bad enough, but if we can't learn from them it will be even worse.

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Political discouse seems to have degraded recently and the real culprit may have nothing to so with current events.

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The President's political career will soon, and he is eager to determine what people will remember about him and what they won't.

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The President continues to act as though Congress has no role in foreign policy.  It does, and it could easily assert it in a couple of recent developments.

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Primaries were held in my state this week.  Executive power wan't part of the discussion, and neither was anything else of substance.

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The President has made politicization of previously well-regarded institutions a high priority.  While it serves his purposes nicely it isn't such a good deal for the rest of us.

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Our highest court showed once again this week that despite its protestations to the contrary it is very much a politicized body

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The worst of the President's executive power grabs have obscured some smaller problems we'll have to deal with as well

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There has been a radical turn towards antidemocratic attitudes by some and we need to start calling it by its true name.

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The Protect America Act expires next Friday, and what happens between now and then will tell us a lot about who our leaders really are.

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We've come to approve of torture by a number of different ways, but perhaps the most insidious is our willingness to look at a distorted picture of it.

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A former FBI translator is sitting on an extraordinary story, but our major outlets are acting as though telling it will turn them to stone.

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Challenging the executive's abuses of the last few years will require some new approaches and some help from largely unheralded actors.

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My quixotic attempt to make a positive association between 2007 and toe tapping.

George Bush has an unmistakable propensity to drain everything around him, and we are all poorer for it.

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Recent events leave no doubt as to the nature of the 110th Congress, and what an ugly nature it is.

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We have more to lose from our representatives frightening us into letting them obscure their activities than from legally requiring them to disclose those activities as a matter of course.

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Time's columnist is not a neutral observer of a partisan fray but an active supporter of a viewpoint that is deeply hostile to our civil liberties and traditions.

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