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Topic: George McGovern

Former Senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern in 2006.

Reclaiming American idealism

William J. Astore - TomDispatch.com
Sherrod Brown (Nannette Bedway)

Sherrod Brown isn't running (exactly)

Andrew O'Hehir
John F Kennedy, George McGovern, John Kerry, and Alexander Vindman (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

GOP smears a combat vet, like usual

Heather Digby Parton
Joe Biden and Edmund Muskie (Getty/Sean Rayford/AP/Bob Daugherty)

Is Joe Biden the new Ed Muskie?

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump; Richard Nixon (AP/Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Watergate matters a lot on this day

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Drew Angerer/Monica Schipper/Keystone/Graham Wood/Harry Benson/)

Clinton-Sanders war is nothing new

Matthew Rozsa
Bernie Sanders, George McGovern, Hillary Clinton (AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Jim Cole/Photo montage by Salon)

Dems have their history wrong

Kathy Donohue
Bernie Sanders, HIllary Clinton (Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich/Mary Schwalm/Photo montage by Salon)

The truth of the Dem civil war

Nico Lang
(AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Why Clinton should wait

Luke Brinker
(AP/Timothy D. Easley/Reuters/Adrees Latif/AP/Tony Gutierrez)

Tea Party's perverse fantasy!

Sean McElwee, Conner Kennedy
(Shutterstock/Jiri Hera)

Michael S. Fenster - Pacific Standard
Rand Paul (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Rand Paul is in dream land

Jonathan Bernstein
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McGovern's crucial message

Stanley Kutler
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Hillel Italie
McGovern in 2011 (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, Pool, File)

Kristi Eaton, Walter R. Mears
Sen. George McGovern accepts the Democratic presidential nomination at the closing session of the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Fla., in this July 14, 1972 file photo. (AP/Ray Stubblebine)

McGovern deserved better

Joan Walsh
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