DNC Final: The Obamas, the Optics, and the Politics of Intimacy
This is not about me, it’s about you. If the Obamas are about anything, they’re about breaking down the (perceptual) distance between themselves and the American people. They are way dialed in to what’s essential and also what’s popular. The are about doing what they can as often as...
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Over Netanyahu’s Shoulder: A (Telephoto) Analysis of the Prime Minister’s U.N. Speech Edits
If Netanyahu, as he scribbled away at the rhetorical edges, was feeling a sense of urgency about the opportunity for peace, its seems more motivated out of fear that the Palestinians had scored a coup with their statehood application than anything else.
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The Deeper Price of Censorship: White House Nixes Photo of bin Laden’s Body
We feel today's action by the Administration must lead to the end of a false assumption, taken for granted by the President and leaders in both parties, that the snuffing out a critical and essential photo is somehow a zero-sum game.
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How to Win Friends and Be Influenced By People
What I can't understand is how much the media narrative not only overlooks Bush's fantasy friendship as a key to Putin's empowerment, but how much the two share the same ideology when it comes to power.
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