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• What's missing from the Democratic convention?

  Democrats have largely avoided discussions of the radicalism of the past eight years, and even more so personal attacks on John McCain. Is that wise?

  Glenn Greenwald

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• What Sarah Palin means

  She lets John McCain appease the Christian right while looking like a social reformer.

  Joan Walsh

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• McCain's Palin pick is the epitome of tokenism

  Suddenly all anyone needs to qualify as a potential commander in chief is to be a religious ideologue with female gender characteristics?

  By Joe Conason

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• Bill Clinton shows -- and gets -- the love

  "Barack Obama is ready to lead America," he tells an adoring crowd -- and suddenly Clinton haters who predicted mayhem in Denver are 0 for 2.

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• Should Obama have picked Hillary?

  Did the GOP just co-opt the Democrats' chance at making history? Sarah Palin, a conservative, antiabortion, pro-NRA Republican may just be the first woman in the White House.

  Rebecca Traister

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