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lsanderson) wrote2010-06-29 03:05 am
lsanderson) wrote2010-06-29 03:05 am
Austere
In Ireland, a Picture of the High Cost of Austerity
A housing project in the Ballymun neighborhood was abandoned when the real estate market collapsed. More Photos »
By LIZ ALDERMAN
Published: June 28, 2010
With Command Shift in Afghanistan, Talk Turns to Withdrawal
By PETER BAKER
Published: June 28, 2010
Obama Reverses Bush’s Space Policy
By WILLIAM J. BROAD and KENNETH CHANG
Published: June 28, 2010
Wrong Track Distress
By BOB HERBERT
Published: June 28, 2010
The Court: Ignoring the Reality of Guns
Published: June 28, 2010
The Court: Denying Government Support for Intolerance
Published: June 28, 2010
A housing project in the Ballymun neighborhood was abandoned when the real estate market collapsed. More Photos »
By LIZ ALDERMAN
Published: June 28, 2010
DUBLIN — As Europe’s major economies focus on belt-tightening, they are following the path of Ireland. But the once thriving nation is struggling, with no sign of a rapid turnaround in sight. More
With Command Shift in Afghanistan, Talk Turns to Withdrawal
By PETER BAKER
Published: June 28, 2010
WASHINGTON — When he ordered 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan last December, President Obama stressed that they would not stay forever. “After 18 months,” he said, “our troops will begin to come home.” More
Obama Reverses Bush’s Space Policy
By WILLIAM J. BROAD and KENNETH CHANG
Published: June 28, 2010
The Obama administration on Monday unveiled a space policy that renounces the unilateral stance of the Bush administration and instead emphasizes international cooperation, including the possibility of an arms control treaty that would limit the development of space weapons. More
Wrong Track Distress
By BOB HERBERT
Published: June 28, 2010
It’s getting harder and harder for most Americans, looking honestly at the state of the nation, to see the glass as half full. And that’s why the public opinion polls contain nothing but bad news for Barack Obama and the Democrats. More
The Court: Ignoring the Reality of Guns
Published: June 28, 2010
About 10,000 Americans died by handgun violence, according to federal statistics, in the four months that the Supreme Court debated which clause of the Constitution it would use to subvert Chicago’s entirely sensible ban on handgun ownership. The arguments that led to Monday’s decision undermining Chicago’s law were infuriatingly abstract, but the results will be all too real and bloody. More
The Court: Denying Government Support for Intolerance
Published: June 28, 2010
In the guns case, the Supreme Court did the wrong thing (prohibiting gun bans) for the right reason (extending the reach of the Bill of Rights). The opposite was true in another major case on the final day of the court’s term. More