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Making the ‘Buffett Rule’ LAW

Tax Dept.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has received plenty of ink for his "Buffett Rule" legislation, named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | February 15, 2012

Checking in with presidential hopeful Paul
While fellow Republican hopefuls Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum fight it out in Florida, Ron Paul, dark-horse candidate and Constitutional fundamentalist, sallied forth along his unorthodox campaign trail, hitting states with upcoming caucuses rather than primaries.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | February 01, 2012

Reining in your loans

Use the federal program, no matter how hard your lender tries to sell you something else
Last October, President Obama initiated an improved income-based repayment plan called Pay As You Earn.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | January 25, 2012

Congress gives us all detention

Rights watch
The $662 billion military spending bill expected to go before both houses of Congress later this week includes controversial provisions allowing the US military to arrest and indefinitely detain, without trial, anyone suspected of terrorism-related crimes, including American citizens.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | December 14, 2011

Why the people are more important than Wall Street

Obama's Osawatomie Moment
President Barack Obama travelled to Osawatomie, Kansas, the other day and delivered an unequivocal rebuke to current economic thinking.
By EDITORIAL | December 07, 2011

Get it together

Going green
"Political leaders, no matter the party, often can be barometers for public sentiment."
By DEIRDRE FULTON | September 28, 2011

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The debt crisis is only on hold

Plus, what does congressman Bill Keating have against Cuban families?
The United States was only hours away from joining in the international community of deadbeats and bunko artists — think Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Portugal — when President Barack Obama signed the legislation raising the national debt ceiling and cutting trillions of dollars in federal spending.
By EDITORIAL | August 03, 2011

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Chafee’s number

Gubernatorial Scorecard
This week, we continue with a running feature, the Gubernatorial Scorecard. Every so often, we'll rate Lincoln Chafee from 1 to 10 on both the politics and substance of his most recent maneuverings.
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX STAFF | July 27, 2011

Does Obama have the cojones to win?

This WTF moment
To make sense of this bizarre and dispiriting moment in American politics, here are the things one needs to appreciate.
By EDITORIAL | July 27, 2011

the great depression and republican Bolsheviks

There is no mystery to the debt crisis. Plus: Scott Brown, and the Boston Foundation

Republican Bolsheviks
Understanding the debate about raising the debt ceiling, and imagining the economic crisis that will follow if Congress fails to do so, is really very simple.
By EDITORIAL | July 20, 2011

Up in smoke?

Obama is threatening a medical marijuana crackdown in Rhode Island and across the country. Should Governor Chafee call his bluff?
Ten months after President Obama took office, his Justice Department issued a remarkable directive.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | July 19, 2011

The plan to turn Rhode Island red

GOP strategist Ken McKay is quietly plotting a data-driven explosion of the state’s one-party rule
The Rhode Island Republican Party's reputation for ineptitude is, by any reasonable measure, richly deserved.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | August 12, 2011

Sarah Palin joins the GOP presidential race

Palin's magic bus ride just might save Romney -- and run over Obama

Sarah to the rescue?
Democrats are positively giddy over the sudden re-entry of Sarah Palin into Republican presidential politics.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | June 01, 2011

Photos: President Obama speaks at the Cyclorama

Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts | May 18, 2011
Obama speaks at the Cyclorama inside Boston Center for The Arts on May 18, 2011. He was proceeded by speakers from The New England Steering Committee, Governor Deval Patrick, current Celtics player Ray Allen and former Celtics player Bill Russell.
By KELSEY MARIE BELL | May 23, 2011

Letters to the Boston editor, May 27, 2011

The end is here
When I first read your issue of May 20 with all the hue and cry about the Rapture due the next day, I thought it was a lot of nonsense.
By | May 26, 2011

Bliss of Rapture

Farewell, Christians — don't let the gates of paradise hit you on the ass on your way out
Okay, I'm not happy , exactly, that, as a Jew, I am excluded from Saturday's date with Heaven's eternal rewards, and will instead be left to suffer through great tribulations before perishing, with the rest of the Army of the Antichrist, as a dismembered corpse beneath a waste-deep river of blood.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | May 19, 2011

Larry Flynt on the end of days, and why politicians can't keep it in their pants

Great hustle
Larry Flynt is no stranger to religious freaks. He's been one himself — converted aboard his private jet, back in 1977, by Jimmy Carter's sister.
By SCOTT FAYNER | May 19, 2011

What's going on; What's at stake

Libya
Two months and 7000-plus air strikes into its Libyan intervention, NATO is running out of straightforward combat targets and is expanding its hit list to include infrastructure, communications networks, and command and control centers.
By EDITORIAL | May 18, 2011

Letters to the Boston editor, May 20, 2011

Nose out of joint
Jeez, I go away on vacation and you guys go all Obama on me.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | May 18, 2011

The death of Osama bin Laden proves that pragmatic progressivism works

Hope at last
You saw the meme buzzing around the Net on Monday: Barack Obama, in dark sunglasses, smirking: "SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG TO GET YOU A COPY OF MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE," it read, in I Can Has Cheezburger all-caps. "I WAS TOO BUSY KILLING OSAMA BIN LADEN."
By GREG COOK | May 09, 2011

Obama's medical marijuana crackdown

Weed Dept.
Rhode Island's medical marijuana community took another hit this week — only this time it didn't result in any healing.
By DANIEL MCGOWAN | May 04, 2011

Obama's rebirth

By exposing his haters, the president has forced the GOP into a corner
It was a good weekend for the president.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | May 05, 2011

Taking the long view

Obama's secret. Plus, Bill Taylor, RIP.
The surprising and dramatic death in Pakistan of Osama bin Laden at the hands of American Special Forces operating under shoot-to-kill orders from President Barack Obama was a triumph of singular rarity in the annals of international conflict.
By EDITORIAL | May 09, 2011

Obama's got a wolf gang?

Obama-killed-Osama memes
View and download the alternate cover of the Phoenix and comment on a selection of the many Obama-killed-Osama memes.
By PHOENIX STAFF | May 05, 2011

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Review: The Conspirator

Redford doesn't do justice to his theme
Robert Redford's The Conspirator draws parallels between the extra-constitutional methods applied then to protect the country from possible terrorism and those employed in today's War against Terror.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 14, 2011