His list of achievements is epic, but he worked to fix healthcare for 40 years. Let's finish the job in his name
By Joe Conason Aug 28, 2009
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They don't make families -- or politicians, or liberals -- like Teddy and the Kennedys anymore
By Alan Wolfe
August 27, 2009
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It's time to save planet Earth. And our inspiration, once again, comes from JFK
By Joseph Romm
July 20, 2009
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Come out of the closet, liberals. Stop using the fashionable euphemism "progressive" and relaunch the old, tarnished L-word.
By Michael Lind
November 21, 2008
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For the second day in a row, there was a passing of the torch from the Kennedys to Barack Obama, as Sorensen directly tied the presumptive nominee to his former boss.
By Alex Koppelman
August 26, 2008
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In an Op-Ed, the Connecticut senator bemoans what he sees as a change in the foreign policy of his off-again, on-again party.
By Justin Jouvenal
May 21, 2008
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This year's presidential contest is shaping up as the 1964 campaign that never happened
By David Talbot
May 21, 2008
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"The Gulag Archipelago" meets "Counter-Strike" in China. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Deliver milk powder.
By Andrew Leonard
March 6, 2008
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If Barack Obama borrowed from Deval Patrick, so what? Creative "borrowing" is part of speechwriting, as Kennedy knew, and as I learned while working for Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale.
By Jerome Doolittle
February 20, 2008
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How might Clinton and Obama handle the Oval Office? On the eve of Super Tuesday, what we still don't know could come back to haunt us.
By Walter Shapiro
February 4, 2008
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Mitt Romney is caught between Mormonism and a hard place -- the fundamentalist Christian base of the modern GOP. And it's partly his own fault.
By Andrew O'Hehir
December 6, 2007
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His personal journals unveil the glory and corruption of postwar presidents with emotional truth and power. Alas, the age of the great historian is over.
By Sidney Blumenthal
October 18, 2007
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The former first lady died Wednesday afternoon.
By Alex Koppelman
July 11, 2007
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How Bush hardliners and even mainstream pundits have hogtied one of our greatest potential strengths in the war on terrorism.
By P.W. Singer
June 26, 2007
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Doubt is a virtue, JFK told students 45 years ago. Without it we have the tragic bluster and empty optimism of political culture today.
By Peter Birkenhead
June 11, 2007
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Ted Sorensen -- and Bruce Willis -- set the record straight on JFK.
By David Talbot
May 14, 2007
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The Kennedy speechwriter, and the Republican star, set the record straight in Vanity Fair.
By David Talbot
May 14, 2007
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Real-life Washington could be just as sinister and treacherous as the HBO series set in the ancient imperial capital.
By David Talbot
May 3, 2007
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Cuba could easily have become the Iraq of its day. But fortunately JFK was no George W.
By David Talbot
May 2, 2007
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When presidential candidates posture as the new JFK, do they realize he was more a dove than a hawk?
By David Talbot
May 2, 2007
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The exclusive story of Robert F. Kennedy's secret search for the truth about John F. Kennedy's assassination. From the new book by Salon's founder and former editor in chief.
By David Talbot
May 2, 2007
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Our failed political dynasties, Pelosi's stylish appeal and George W. Bush as Queen Victoria. Plus: The hot air about global warming.
By Camille Paglia
April 11, 2007
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Haunting new footage of JFK and Jackie, moments moments before chaos.
By Kerry Lauerman
February 20, 2007
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Vidal's second memoir merely retells the stories we already know from his enormous -- and potentially irrelevant -- body of work.
By Allen Barra
January 3, 2007
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His biographer recalls how the late economist warned JFK about Vietnam -- and faulted conservative policies for worsening inequality in America.
By Richard Parker
May 1, 2006
Ted Kennedy wanted the public option
The end of an era
Goodnight, moon travel
Is it OK to be liberal again, instead of progressive?
Sorensen, former JFK speechwriter, speaks
Obama/Kennedy vs. McCain/Goldwater
Hacking into Freedom City
John F. Kennedy, plagiarist?
The qualms before the storm
This is not Romney's Kennedy moment
Arthur M. Schlesinger's playbill for the American century
American goodwill, in shackles
Better to be Hamlet than President George
History according to Vanity Fair
"Brothers"
Real inconvenient truths
New JFK film
Too much Gore
The Galbraith I knew
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