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Camelot: The Next Generation

Patrick Kennedy is a square peg in his family's historic round table
Senator Ted Kennedy's months-long battle with brain cancer inspired endless commentary about the demise of Camelot.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  October 01, 2009
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Six for the seat

After a tumultuous week, these half dozen are still in the mix for Kennedy's seat.
Over the next few months, as candidates for the US Senate travel the state, you're likely to hear them say again and again that nobody can ever truly replace Ted Kennedy. That's the truth. But what does the state want next, after such a legendary, larger-than-life figure?
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  September 16, 2009
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Capuano cornered?

Could a developing Washington probe hurt the Somerville congressman, and derail his Senate hopes?
Republican lobbying-ethics scandals helped convince voters to toss out the GOP and put Democrats back in control of the US House of Representatives.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  March 03, 2009
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The feminine critique

Women in politics came a long way in 2008, but the weight of double standards endures
It was almost a banner year for women in politics.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  December 24, 2008
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The Impeachinator

Watchdog Fein
From Caligula to Bush...er Obama: Bruce Fein watches them all.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  November 24, 2008
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Fair is foul

What's the fuss over the Fairness Doctrine really about?
These are scary times for far-right conservatives.
By ADAM REILLY  |  November 17, 2008
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Long national nightmare

What if all the pundits, pollsters, and press are (gasp!) wrong about Obama’s chances?
Last night, I woke up in a sweat. I’d had a very bizarre dream.  
By STEVEN STARK  |  October 29, 2008

Ben Dover’s big bailout

Our congressional officials owe Rhode Island an apology
Phillipe + Jorge are furious over the $700 billion bailout of the pinstriped pirates of Wall Street, who are laughing as they return to their McMansions.  
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  October 09, 2008
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Women on the verge

Clinton die-hards have created a new-girls’ network bent on remedying decades of sexism by putting women in elected office
At next week’s Democratic National Convention in Denver, Hillary Clinton’s delegates will get just about everything they’ve wanted — aside from the nomination of their candidate, of course.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  August 20, 2008
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Senate shuffle

Massachusetts hasn’t had a Senate-seat vacancy in nearly 25 years. Now we may have two. Let the speculation begin.
Don’t count Ted Kennedy out just yet, but the prognosis immediately set minds thinking about the inevitable departure of Kennedy from the US Senate, where he has served since 1962.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  August 27, 2008
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What about Tibet?

The Olympics may prove to be China’s Achilles’s heel
It is about money.
By EDITORIAL  |  March 28, 2008
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Vermont man, 60, walks to impeach Bush

Take a hike
Most people are content to mutter and complain as they wait out the final years of the Bush regime.
By TIM LEHNERT  |  December 12, 2007
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Comedy Rambo

A gladiator of mockery, Stephen Colbert is dismantling American society from the inside
Misunderestimate Stephen Colbert at your peril.
By DAVID BIANCULLI  |  November 16, 2007
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Same as the old boss

Congressional Dems were supposed to get us out of this war
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid? What a joke. Meet the new boss . . .
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  August 29, 2007
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Kennebunkport protest expected to draw around 5000

Protest round-up
Cindy Sheehan seems unable to stay away from the peace movement that she publicly cut ties with just over two months ago.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  August 22, 2007
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Taking the Fifth

The race for Marty Meehan’s congressionalseat is running below the radar, but it could hold the answers to a couple of burning political questions
The September 4 Democratic primary has compelling interest beyond the borders of the Fifth Congressional District.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  August 22, 2007
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Mowed down

The federal Farm Bill leaves Mainers in the dust
Libby describes Leahy’s spot on the committee as “good for new England — because without that voice we’d be invisible.”
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  August 15, 2007
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Say it ain’t so, Cindy Sheehan

Plus, the turd’s blossom has finally fallen off
The best place to observe the masochistic tendencies of the American left these days is in San Francisco.
By EDITORIAL  |  August 15, 2007
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Idiot box

We watch QubeTV so you don't have to
When QubeTV — the video-sharing site “run by conservatives for conservatives” — was launched in April, we were intrigued.
By MIKE MILIARD  |  June 06, 2007
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Hillary and Pelosi’s strides mask a lack of progress

Gender 2007
Women like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi are widely disrespected, especially in the conservative climate that has clouded the nation’s perspective since Ronald Reagan.
By MARY ANN SORRENTINO  |  May 30, 2007
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Pelosi’s press secretary boasts a RI link

DC Connection
When Erica Sagrans took a job on the staff of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, her move to the nation’s capital was noted in the Providence Journal’s Political Scene column and elsewhere.
By IAN DONNIS  |  April 25, 2007
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State of denial

The dangerous irrelevance of President George W. Bush
Bush seems hell-bent on stretching the limits of presidential power even further than Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon did in Vietnam.
By EDITORIAL  |  January 26, 2007

Warring parties

Letters to the Boston editor: January 26, 2007
Regarding your editorial on George W. Bush’s rejiggered Iraq policy, let us see what our cowardly congressional representatives do: will they simply hold a few hearings in an attempt to pacify the masses? Or will they take action against an administration that makes Nixon’s appear contrite?
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  January 24, 2007
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It wasn’t a dream

Four signs that the Democratic gains in 2006 could mark the start of a new, blue era in American politics
Many observers believe the Democrats’ gains were mostly a one-time rejection of all things Republican. But is this just the beginning of a period of political ascendancy for the Democratic Party? Ten to beat: Republicans who are ripe for the picking. By David S. Bernstein
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  December 28, 2006

Getting out



By BLY LAURITANO-WERNER  |  December 27, 2006
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Who’s the Nancy?

Dubya slouches to mere mincing minion among DC’s new political elite
The GOP’s many mistakes this election season included the massive one of attacking House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the soon-to-be Speaker of the House.
By PHILLIPE & JORGE  |  November 15, 2006
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Whitehouse rides the Democratic tide; Fogarty falls short

Talking politics
For Sheldon Whitehouse, claiming the US Senate seat held by two Chafees over 30 years came down to being the right man in the right place at the right time.
By IAN DONNIS  |  November 08, 2006
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Windbags of change

A front-row seat at the midterm elections
Regardless of which major party sits astride Capitol Hill, Washington is a conservative city. Not in ideological terms, mind you.
By CHRIS LEHMANN  |  November 08, 2006
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Not so jockular

The ugly racial shakedown in Coventry diminishes all of us
The field of sports is normally one of the areas with the least racism in the US.
By PHILLIPE & JORGE  |  October 11, 2006

Roving lie

Letters to the Boston editor: June 30, 2006
Thanks for the window in to the NH GOP dinner and Rove’s tactics (“ Is The Bloom Off The Turd? ”).
By EDITORIAL  |  June 29, 2006

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