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Power Grid Limits Potential of Renewable Energy
New York Times - By Matthew L. Wald - Aug. 27 (News Report)
The dirty secret of clean energy is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not. More »

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Confrontational Russia
Economist - Aug. 27 (News Report)
Diplomatic historians may find that the two new countries will not make for enduring study. The next act in the drama may well be that both new countries ask to become part of the... More »

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Clinton electrifies convention with unity plea
The Independent - By Leonard Doyle - Aug. 27 (News Report)
Many of Mrs Clinton's supporters choked with emotion as she gave one of the most powerful speeches she has delivered throughout the entire electoral season... More »

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Russian president speaks to BBC
BBC News - Aug. 27 (Interview)
In an exclusive interview with the BBC's diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (speaking through a translator) explained why Russia had moved... More »

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Immigration Debate Stirs Up GOP Platform Meeting
Congressional Quarterly - By Kathleen Hunter - Aug. 27 (News Report)
Disagreement among Republicans about the party's stance on immigration -- and lingering unease about John McCain 's past positions on the issue -- were on display here Tuesday as... More »

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Comic rips media's false sense of urgency
San Francisco Chronicle - Aug. 27 (Opinion)
It is a telling media milepost as political convention TV coverage unfolds over the next two weeks: Jon Stewart is now the dean of commercial network political convention anchors... More »

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What really scares us about Barack Obama
Haaretz - By Bradley Burston - Aug. 27 (Editorial)
But what the foreign visitor finds the most frightening, the most dangerous, is the voter who, after eight years of abject catastrophe, continues to pray "Please, please,... More »

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America Against The World
Atlantic Monthly - Aug. 27 (Blog Post)
The op-ed in today's WSJ by the McCain duo of Lieberman and Graham is far more important for this election, it seems to me, than parsing the dynamics of the Clinton-Obama marriage... More »

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The Big Tent in Denver
The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - Aug. 27 (Blog Post)
[Disclosure: The is a post from the blog of a NewsTrust staff member.] It seems some of the more serious conversation on the future of the Democratic party in Denver this week--at... More »

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The Illusory Middle
The Nation - By Victor Navasky - Aug. 27 (Opinion)
His mistake is the same one that the last two Democratic candidates for President--Gore and Kerry--made. The assumption (shared by too many campaign consultants) that the way to... More »

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Campaigns Take Cash, Seek Details Later
Associated Press - By Sharon Theimer, Troy Thibodeaux - Aug. 21 (News Report)
Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain has consistently followed the government's instructions for keeping prohibited foreign money out of their presidential campaigns, and some of... More »

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Letter from Rangoon: Drowning
New Yorker - By George Packer - Aug. 23 (Special Report)
Over the decades, the Burmese government has subjected its citizens to epic misrule, systematically destroying every institution of society except the Army, whose leaders have... More »

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Flaws Found In Watch List For Terrorists
Wall Street Journal - By Siobhan Gorman - Aug. 22 (News Report)
The government's main terrorist-watch-list system is hobbled by technology challenges, and the $500 million program designed to upgrade it is on the verge of collapse, according... More »

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Secrets of the American Future Fund
Iowa Independent - By Jason Hancock - Aug. 21 (Special Report)
The American Future Fund (AFF), operating out of Des Moines, is sponsoring advocacy advertisements in closely contested congressional races from New York to Louisiana to Minnesota... More »

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Partying Under Adversity
ProPublica - By Paul Kiel - Aug. 25 (News Analysis)
It depends on how you look at it. This week's Democratic National Convention (and in September, the Republican convention) is a week-long orgy for special interest money, same as... More »

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This Week's Top Rated - Opinion

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Syria reaps a Russian reward
Asia Times - By Sami Moubayed - Aug. 23 (Opinion)
Russia sees a good ally in Assad, a man who realizes that the Russians are back and intends on using this strong reality to advance his own country's interests, in regard to the... More »

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The Hidden Power of Scent
Scientific American - By Josie Glausiusz - Aug. 24 (Review)
Key Concepts: * The human sense of smell is often seen as insignificant, but this sense is keener and more influential on our species than many people realize... More »

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Still a 'Fellow Dissident'?
Washington Post - Aug. 21 (Editorial)
Today, we repost an opinion piece by Egyptian professor and dissident Saad Eddin Ibrahim that first appeared on our op-ed page one year ago. This month, Mr... More »

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McCain's patriotism two-step
Talking Points Memo - By Greg Sargent - Aug. 25 (Opinion)
Though McCain has said frequently that Obama would rather lose a war than lose a presidential campaign and that Obama's Iraq policies are driven by "ambition... More »

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Elegy For A Rubber Stamp
Harper's - By Lewis H. Lapham - Aug. 24 (Opinion)
Long ago in the days before journalists became celebrities, their enterprise was reviled and poorly paid, and it was understood by working newspapermen that the presence of more... More »

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Some Clinton Fund-Raisers Are Still Simmering
New York Times - By Michael Luo, Griff Palmer - Aug. 27 (News Report)
A significant number of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's top fund-raisers remain on the sidelines and unwilling to work for Senator Barack Obama, a nettlesome problem that appears... More »

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Is Ukraine's Crimea the Next Flash Point With Russia?
U.S. News & World Report - By Alastair Gee - Aug. 27 (Special Report)
Moscow's relations with Ukraine have been strained since the 2004 Orange Revolution, in which pro-western Viktor Yushchenko won an election runoff after hundreds of thousands of... More »

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Obama's Response Ad Reflects Lessons of 2004
Washington Post - By Jonathan Weisman - Aug. 26 (News Report)
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign and its allies, mindful of the lessons of the Swift boat attacks of 2004, have begun an aggressive, multi-pronged attack on an advertisement running... More »

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Media Gone Mad
The Nation - By Eric Alterman - Aug. 27 (News Analysis)
It's all "associates say," or "some Clinton delegates," or "an official familiar with conversations," or "one adviser... More »

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The Speedy Biden News Cycle
Columbia Journalism Review - By Megan Garber - Aug. 26 (News Analysis)
the backlash, I'd argue, may have to do with the particulars of the announcement of his selection: the hype-building delay, the ample time given for reporters to analyze the... More »

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Après Musharraf, patience
International Herald Tribune - By Hassan Abbas - Aug. 27 (Opinion)
Western governments clearly have mixed feelings about the legacy of Pervez Musharraf and are trying to grasp what is in store for a nuclear-armed state whose writ is diminishing... More »

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Russia's Aggression Is a Challenge to World Order
Wall Street Journal - By Lindsey Graham, Joe Lieberman - Aug. 27 (Opinion)
Russia's aggression is not just a threat to a tiny democracy on the edge of Europe. It is a challenge to the political order and values at the heart of the continent. More »

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Carville: Dems wasting first night
CNN - Aug. 26 (Blog Post)
"You haven't heard about Iraq or John McCain or George W. Bush -- I haven't heard any of this. We are a country that is in a borderline recession, we are an 80 percent... More »

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Day 2 Snapshots
Talking Points Memo - By David Kurtz - Aug. 27 (Opinion)
The truth is that when you're at an event like the Democratic Convention, it's almost impossible to have a bird's eye view of everything going on... More »

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Hamer's Convention
Balkinization - By Mary L. Dudziak - Aug. 27 (Blog Post)
in spite of various sorts of whining accompanying this year's Democratic National Convention, it is an historic moment in more than one way... More »

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Michealene Cristini Risley: "The Democrats are calling, and I've misplaced my phone."
Huffington Post - Aug. 27
Perhaps my message to the Democratic Party would go something like this: I want to know that you actually listen to the issues that I face, that my vote matters... More »

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McCain Matches Bush's Bellicose Rhetoric
The Progressive Populist - Aug. 25
John McCain showed why he should not become president on Aug. 11 when he urged NATO to begin discussions on "the deployment of an international peacekeeping force to South... More »

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What really scares us about Barack Obama
Haaretz - Aug. 27
But what the foreign visitor finds the most frightening, the most dangerous, is the voter who, after eight years of abject catastrophe, continues to pray "Please, please,... More »

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Comic rips media's false sense of urgency
San Francisco Chronicle - Aug. 27
It is a telling media milepost as political convention TV coverage unfolds over the next two weeks: Jon Stewart is now the dean of commercial network political convention anchors... More »

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Why Offshore Drilling Can Bridge Gap to U.S. Energy Future
Popular Mechanics - Aug. 27
Sadly, our government's track record isn't any better in picking energy sources that it does support. Coal has been a national priority ever since Jimmy Carter put on that... More »

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The Big Tent in Denver
The Writing Corner - Aug. 27
[Disclosure: The is a post from the blog of a NewsTrust staff member.] It seems some of the more serious conversation on the future of the Democratic party in Denver this week--at... More »

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Media portrayal fuels conflict
Iowa State Daily - Aug. 26
The United States has played a pivotal role in this conflict, most notably in its open support of Georgia's possible membership in NATO, which significantly strained relations... More »

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America Against The World
Atlantic Monthly - Aug. 27
The op-ed in today's WSJ by the McCain duo of Lieberman and Graham is far more important for this election, it seems to me, than parsing the dynamics of the Clinton-Obama marriage... More »

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The best TEFL courses in London
Blog - Aug. 26
Teaching English in Foreign Language, or TEFL, in London is one of the most renowned institutions in the teaching industry; hence the reason why many choose to get enrolled in the... More »

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Big Three Block Iran Attack
Foreign Policy in Focus - Aug. 18
The United States is in a huge foreign policy muddle in the Middle East. It wants to dominate and control Iran but requires the support of the world community to accomplish its... More »

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