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Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Agenda Bringing Conduct Control Democratic Force Foreign Foreign Policy Issue Merely Onto Policy Public Requires Struggle

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As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Andrew Better Bill Bill Gates Billionaires Carnegie Citizen Embrace Every Every Time Example Gates Great Ignore Instead Jobs Morality Must Over Parent Should Steve Steve Jobs Take Time Warren Warren Buffett Wisdom

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Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: About Abuse Against Care Chicanery Democracy Different Dishonesty Enough Ensure Entirely Function Level Local News Our Outright Pay People Question Requires Sadly Safeguards Strong Than Whether

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The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Ability American American Politics Been Buy Economic Economic System Inequality Just New Nothing Nothing New Our Part Percent Permanent Political Politicians Politics System Systems True Virtually 1 Percent

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But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Crucial Decisions Educated Gatekeepers Helping Helping People Make Media Navigate News Objectivity Particularly People Play Political Profess Role Strive Toward

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Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Barely Below Degrees Egypt Half Income Income Inequality Inequality Measured Nations Near Owns Percent Population Putting Spring States Tunisia Uganda United United States Wealth Rwanda

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Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Along Breaks Down Else Everything Everything Else Existence Fact Geographical Like Lines Local Our Physical Political Political System Politics Still System Used

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More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Acts Awful Carter Close Colorful Cool Democrats Hands Jimmy Jimmy Carter More More And More Obama Seems Show Starting Um Version Worry

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I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Air Am Anywhere Classic Column Deeply Devoted Engineered Ipod Songs Take Well Which I Am I Can

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Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Amazing Appears Beneath Career Feet His Holding Obama Opponents Political Politically Streak Unlikely Who

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 14th, 1960

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