East Meets West to Fill European Post, and It’s Harder to Tell Them Apart
Date: 01 September 2014
By RICK LYMAN
Rick LYMAN
News analysis; election of Polish Prime Min Donald Tusk as president of European Council is evidence of palpable shift in the way Western European leaders think about Poland and further evidence that old distinctions between Eastern and Western Europe are rapidly crumbling.
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Are Police Bigoted?
Date: 31 August 2014
By MICHAEL WINES
Michael WINES
News analysis; issue of racial bias in policing has come to the forefront in wake of shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo; there is as yet no reliable data on shootings by police officers, and without reliable numbers, conventional wisdom of police racial bias is little more than speculation.
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Obama and the Warmongers
Date: 01 September 2014
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Charles
Charles Blow Op-Ed column fears that Pres Obama's deliberative approach to threat posed by ISIS may be drowned out by pressure from screeching war hawks and an anxious, frightened public; says situation is exacerbated by right-wing media that is continuing to yoke Obama with the ill effects of a war started by his predecessor, and is itself helping beat drums of war.
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