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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pauses during a press conference in his office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 18, 2011. When U.S President Barack Obama and Netanyahu meet this week to try to revive deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, they will do so against a vastly changed Middle East landscape. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) (AP)

Netanyahu: 1967 borders can’t be defended

Associated Press
Israeli prime minister rejects a key aspect of Obama's Mideast speech
** CORRECTS SPELLING OF LEBANESE ** Syrian citizens who fled from violence from the western Syrian villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border, protest as they shout slogans against Bashar Assad and his regime, in the Wadi Khaled area, about one kilometer (0.6 miles) from the Lebanon-Syria border, north Lebanon, on Monday May 16, 2011. Carrying mattresses and bags of clothing, Syrians fleeing their homeland described a "catastrophic" scene Monday in a besieged border town that has been largely sealed off as the army tries to crush a two-month uprising. (AP Photo) (AP)

Obama’s Mideast speech offers punishment, praise

Ben Feller
The president will announce aid for Egypt and Tunisia as he defends new sanctions on Syria's Assad
President-elect Newt Gingrich?

How Gingrich can still win the GOP nomination — and the presidency

Alex Pareene
Step aside, cowardly Beltway establishment sheep literati, because Newt's still got a clear path to victory
President Barack Obama addresses an audience during a campaign fundraising event, in Boston, Wednesday, May 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) (AP)

The illegal war in Libya

Glenn Greenwald
The always dubious claim that the War Powers Resolution authorized the war is coming to an end
President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, May 10, 2011, as he travels to the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas, to speak about immigration reform, Tuesday, May 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Air Force One forced to abort landing attempt

Associated Press
Weather causes difficulties, but presidential aircraft touches down safely in Connecticut with only a slight delay
Syrian protesters chant slogans and hold anti-Syrian President posters during a demonstration demanding that Syria's President Bashar Assad step down, in front of the Arab League headquarters building in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 15, 2011. Hundreds of Syrians fled to neighboring Lebanon to escape a violent crackdown against an anti-government uprising that has claimed the lives of more than 800 civilians, Lebanese security officials and a leading human rights group said. Arabic read " people want Assad step down". (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (AP)

U.S. slaps sanctions on Syria’s Assad for abuses

Ben Feller, Matthew Lee
Action marks the first time the Syrian leader has been personally penalized for the actions of his security forces

Birther book still exists, selling “very well”

Justin Elliott
Despite a parody blog post that Jerome Corsi's "Where's the Birth Certificate?" had been pulled from the shelves
Gas prices are seen on a sign at a station in Half Moon, N.Y., on Wednesday, May 11, 2011. New York, Indiana, Illinois and New Hampshire are among the first states talking about temporarily suspending part or all of the state and local taxes that can add 14 cents to nearly 50 cents to a gallon of gas. (AP Photo/Mike Groll) (AP)

Senate blocks bill repealing $2B in oil tax breaks

Stephen Ohlemacher
Legislation falls short during procedural vote
Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan

No, Newt, your campaign’s not just like Reagan’s

Steve Kornacki
The most epically disastrous presidential campaign rollout in history continues
At right, U.S. soldiers stand guard in front the gate of a U.S. base after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, April 2, 2011.

Arab Spring won’t “reset” our Middle East policy

Nick Turse
Don't buy Obama's lofty rhetoric. The Pentagon and the White House will keep propping up local dictators
Donald Trump

The biggest political lesson of the Trump “campaign”

Alex Pareene
The NBC star's withdrawal from the 2012 race provides a blueprint for beating every single other Republican
Hundreds of members of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor march to the Arizona state capitol building in protest of Arizona's SB1070 immigration-enforcement law Thursday, July 29, 2010 in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ralph Freso) (Ralph Freso)

Comprehensive immigration reform is dead — and the left is to blame

Michael Lind
Democrats have done a fine job convincing Americans that they aren't remotely serious about border control
President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, May 10, 2011, as he travels to the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas, to speak about immigration reform, Tuesday, May 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Jane Mayer on the Obama war on whistle-blowers

Glenn Greenwald
In a must-read article, the New Yorker documents Obama's war on whistle-blowers, and growing legacy
President Barack Obama greets well wishers upon arrival in Memphis, Tenn., Monday, May 16, 2011, where he will meet privately with families affected by flooding, and deliver the commencement address at Booker T. Washington High School. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Obama: No excuses can be accepted in education

Jim Kuhnhenn
The president spoke at the commencement ceremony at Booker T. Washington High School

Jon Huntsman and the trouble with being a “reasonable” Republican

Steve Kornacki
Is the "liberal" media giving a potentially attractive GOP presidential candidate the kiss of death?
Herman Cain and Mike Huckabee

With Huckabee out, the GOP nomination is definitely Herman Cain’s to lose

Alex Pareene
The former pizza magnate is the rising star of the Republican race
Newt Gingrich and President Obama

Newt Gingrich will never be president

Joan Walsh
How many racially divisive images and issues can he throw at us in just one week? Keep watching
(AP)

The Democratic “Don’t End Medicare” message misleads

Natasha Lennard
Why the slogan "Vote Republican, End Medicare" opens the party up to unnecessary criticism
Newt Gingrich (Jeff Malet Maletphoto.com)

Behold the undisciplined Gingrich candidacy

Justin Elliott
The former speaker's presidential campaign gets off to an inauspicious start
Water diverted from the Mississippi River spills through a bay in the Morganza Spillway in Morganza, La., Saturday, May 14, 2011. Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in the Cajun countryside, threatening to slowly submerge the land under water up to 25 feet deep. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (AP)

Evacuations in Cajun country after spillway opens

Michael Kunzelman
Louisiana reeling from historic flooding
President Barack Obama tours the Sphinx and pyramids outside Cairo, Thursday, June 4, 2009.

What the Muslim world needs to hear from Obama

Nadia Hijab
It feels like domestic politics -- and not meaningful change in the Middle East -- is on the president's mind
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich delivers an economic speech to the 51st Washington Conference with Laffer Associates, Friday, May 13, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Gingrich says 2012 election biggest since 1860

SHANNON McCAFFREY
Former House speaker calls Obama the "most successful food stamp president in modern American history"
President Barack Obama speaks at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Thursday, May 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Obama announces steps to speed U.S. oil production

Dina Cappiello, Darlene Superville
President will authorize plan to open Alaska's national petroleum reserve for drilling
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich delivers an economic speech to the 51st Washington Conference with Laffer Associates, Friday, May 13, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Gingrich: GE “clever” to pay zero corporate taxes

Charles Babington
In his first speech since announcing his presidential candidacy, the former House speaker pushes corporate tax cuts
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