Search Results for: Republican

Prodigal Son

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Is the wayward Republican Mike Huckabee now his party’s best hope?

Author: Ariel Levy
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jun 28, 2010
Length: 33 minutes (8,377 words)

Where Scott Brown Is Coming From

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Getting to know a very, very new Republican senator.

Published: Feb 28, 2010
Length: 22 minutes (5,684 words)

How the GOP Sees It

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What Republicans would do if given carte blanche to run the country.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Feb 19, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,171 words)

Tim Pawlenty: The Esquire Interview

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The Minnesota governor, whom many expect to run for president in 2012, on bailouts, health care, whether Obama is a socialist, and where Republicans go from here

Source: Esquire
Published: Mar 1, 2010
Length: 35 minutes (8,854 words)

Glenn Beck: The Renegade Running the Opposition to Obama

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Glenn Beck is a TV host, bestselling author and the most influential voice on the rightwing Fox channel. Now, even some Republicans worry that the extreme and maverick views of Beck and his supporters will make their party unelectable. Is the TV tail wagging the political dog?

Author: Gaby Wood
Source: The Guardian
Published: Nov 29, 2009
Length: 43 minutes (10,991 words)

The God in the Machine

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President Barack Obama during his first months in office seldom has missed a chance to liken the country’s healthcare system to an unburied corpse, which, if left lying around in the sun by the 111th Congress, threatens to foul the sweet summer air of the American dream. The prognosis doesn’t admit of a second or third opinion. Whether on call to the Democratic left or the Republican right, the attending politicians and consulting economists concur in their assessment of the risk posed by the morbid emissions.

Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,919 words)

Meghan McCain Will Be Heard

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The daughter of the former presidential candidate is proving that you can rally for gay marriage and still be Republican.

Source: Out
Published: Jul 1, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,556 words)

It Came from Wasilla

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Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics. John McCain’s top campaign officials talk more candidly than ever before about the meltdown of his vice-presidential pick.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Aug 28, 2009
Length: 39 minutes (9,862 words)

Arianna’s Virtual Candidate

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California congressman Michael Huffington is a man of no apparent convictions, except one: that he deserves to be president of the United States. But first the multimillionaire Republican is running for the Senate. Pulling the strings is his wife, socialite Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, the controversial author and New Age minister, who has a mysterious agenda of her own. The author lifts the curtain on their own private Oz.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Nov 1, 1994
Length: 34 minutes (8,668 words)