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Playing the IRS card: Six presidents who used the IRS to bash political foes
Since the advent of the federal income tax about a century ago, several presidents – or their zealous underlings – have directed the IRS to use its formidable police powers to harass or punish enemies, political rivals, and administration critics. Here are six infamous episodes.
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Briefing IRS 101: Seven questions about the tea party scandal
The Internal Revenue Service is under the microscope now, as revelations have emerged that the agency wrongly targeted conservative groups seeking nonprofit status. Here’s an accounting of what has happened, along with the ramifications.
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Inauguration 2013: 10 highlights from previous second-term addresses
Barack Obama will be the 17th American president to deliver two inaugural addresses. Here are 10 highlights from such speeches by previous two-term presidents, including the shortest one ever.
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Hillary Clinton: 10 quotes on her birthday
Here are 10 quotes from Hillary Clinton – politician, public servant, and US Secretary of State.
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Bestselling books the week of 3/1/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Robert Reich Just like us: Why Republicans worry about corporate feelings
In the upside-down world of regressive Republicanism, Senator Mitch McConnell thinks proposed legislation requiring companies to disclose their campaign spending would stifle their free speech, a concept Robert Reich finds "bonkers."
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Tantalizing 'what if's' 40 years after Watergate
Forty years of investigation have yielded no simple answer to how a clumsy raid that Richard Nixon's spokesman termed a 'third-rate burglary' became a titanic constitutional struggle and led to his resignation.
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The Influencing Machine
NPR’s Brooke Gladstone entertainingly recounts media history in a graphic novel.
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Decoder Wire Is Donald Trump secretly supporting President Obama?
The day after hosting a fundraiser for Mitt Romney in Las Vegas, Donald Trump resorted to insisting that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This is not helping Romney.
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Barack Obama and Mitt Romney's presidential race is most costly ever
It's the first time both major-party candidates are declining post-Watergate federal campaign financing — and the spending limits attached.
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Chapter & Verse Did Ben Bradlee have lingering doubts about Watergate?
A new biography of Ben Bradlee by Jeff Himmelman quotes Bradlee saying that – decades later – he still had "a little problem with Deep Throat."
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Charles Colson: Watergate 'master of dirty tricks' became prison evangelist
Charles Colson, who went to prison for his role in Watergate but then became a Christian evangelical helping inmates, died Saturday.
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Roger Clemens trial: Can federal prosecutors nab a sports star at last?
Roger Clemens is facing his second trial on charges of lying to Congress, after the first was declared a mistrial. Federal prosecutors have had a rough ride trying to pin perjury on top athletes.
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Decoder Wire President Obama releases tax returns. Does he have to make them public?
The Obamas paid more than $162,000 in federal taxes on income of $789,674. The custom that presidents release their tax returns dates to the Nixon administration.
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Mike Wallace, '60 Minutes' interrogator, gave show journalistic heft and a showman's flair (+video)
Wallace had such a fearsome reputation as an interviewer that 'Mike Wallace is here to see you' were among the most dreaded words a newsmaker could hear.
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Mike Wallace of '60 Minutes' was a dogged interviewer
CBS newsman Mike Wallace, who died Saturday night, was a dogged reporter and interviewer who took on politicians, celebrities and other public figures and made '60 Minutes' famous.
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Richard Nixon: The gushy, romantic side of 'Tricky Dick' (+video)
Richard Nixon's love letters to Patricia Ryan showed a romantic young man. The letters from 1938, reveal Nixon, the 37th US president, as idealistic, poetic.
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Bestselling books the week of 3/1/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Vox News Social media age shocker? On politics, newspapers get more respect.
A survey of likely 2012 voters found that newspapers, followed by broadcast and cable TV, are considered the most reliable source of election news. Trust in national media, however, is very low.
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How super PACs are changing the GOP presidential race
The $41 million that 'super PACs' have spent so far leaves 2008 in the dust and is changing campaign dynamics. Notable effects: many more negative ads and an ability to keep faltering campaigns alive.
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Who's behind 'toxic' super PAC ads? We may never know.
The super PACs paying for a flood of negative ads in the GOP presidential race are supposed to disclose who they are Tuesday. Don't expect to learn much, campaign watchdogs say.
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Can economy help Obama reelection? One statistic gives him hope.
Since 1948 only one incumbent president has won reelection with joblessness over 7 percent. There is another unemployment statistic, however, that could play in President Obama's favor.
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JFK library releases last secret Oval Office tapes
The newly revealed tapes provide a window into the final months of the 35th president's life.
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Is new Supreme Court ruling a retreat from Citizens United?
The Supreme Court upheld Monday a long-established provision of campaign finance law that seeks to prevent foreign interests from influencing domestic politics.
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Rule and Ruin
When and why did the Republican Party tip so far to the right?
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10 novels to watch for in 2012
Here are 10 must-read novels coming at you in early 2012.
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A US citizen stirs up Pakistani 'memo-gate'
Mansoor Ijaz, a 'citizen diplomat,' alleges Pakistani leaders knew of the Osama bin Laden raid ahead of time. The media frenzy in Pakistan over 'memo-gate' highlights the fragility of the government.
12/04/2011 02:54 pm -
Tea Party Tally Is Michele Bachmann dragging the tea party down with her?
Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann is sinking in the polls. A prominent voice in the tea party movement says "It's time for Bachmann to go."
10/29/2011 02:30 pm -
Herman Cain: How the recent Web buzz fits this year's GOP pattern.
New research shows that the meteoric rise by Herman Cain in the polls has been mirrored by a surge in Internet search traffic, even bypassing that for Sarah Palin. But will it last?
10/24/2011 08:59 pm -
The New Economy America could use another Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs will be rightfully remembered for remaking four industries in the last decade. But an earlier incarnation of Steve Jobs helped restore America's confidence in a troubling time.
10/06/2011 12:03 pm
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