http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/category/analysis analysis news from TucsonSentinel.com - Tucson's independent nonprofit online news en Copyright 2010 2010-09-06T13:41:40+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/090210_iraq_war/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/090210_iraq_war/#When: 03:47:36Z Jane Arraf In a war that has changed the U.S. and its military almost as much as the country it invaded, the realization seems to have sunk in that victory is much easier to declare than it will be to define. news, politics, war, nationworld, breaking, hub_headlines, globalpost, analysis 2010-09-03T03:47:36+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/090210_iraq_nowwhat/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/090210_iraq_nowwhat/#When: 17:05:21Z Razzaq al-Saiedi Analysis: President Barack Obama officially declared Tuesday the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq. For Americans, this moment brings closure to a controversial war. But after more than 7 years, Iraqis are still scrambling to forge a working government. news, politics, war, opinion, analysis, nationworld, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, globalpost 2010-09-02T17:05:21+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/083010_mosque_metaphor/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/083010_mosque_metaphor/#When: 14:29:31Z Jimmy Zuma A feeling of insecurity is the underlying motive behind the silly rhetoric about the Park 51 Muslim community center in New York City. Opponents are expressing the despair of the defeated. news, politics, crime, faith, war, opinion, analysis, nationworld, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, columnist 2010-08-30T14:29:31+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/082710_oil_grainofsalt/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/082710_oil_grainofsalt/#When: 23:35:25Z Marian Wang Earlier this week, major news outlets ran with headlines about how a new microbe has been found eating up BP’s oil, and how microbes have degraded the hydrocarbons so efficiently that the vast plumes of oil in the Gulf are now undetectable. No joke. news, politics, business, environment, sci_tech, nationworld, breaking, hub_headlines, propublica, analysis 2010-08-27T23:35:25+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/082310_obamamuslim/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/082310_obamamuslim/#When: 15:02:38Z Sally Steenland Here’s a new item to add to the growing list of fake facts dominating the news over the past year. Already on the list are death panels, a foreign-born president, the hoax of global warming, and rampant discrimination against white people. Now we can add a new fake fact: President Obama is a Muslim. news, politics, faith, opinion, analysis, nationworld, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, center_for_american_progress 2010-08-23T15:02:38+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/082010_mosque_legal/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/082010_mosque_legal/#When: 19:00:09Z Marian Wang For all the anger, political strategizing and stabs in the heart that the plans to build a Muslim community center near ground zero may have brought about, land-use and zoning experts say opponents of the project have very little legal basis on which to rest their argument. news, politics, business, faith, war, nationworld, breaking, propublica, analysis 2010-08-20T19:00:09+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/082010_iraq_withdrawl/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/082010_iraq_withdrawl/#When: 14:08:36Z Lawrence J. Korb The last U.S. combat brigade left Iraq early Thursday. This orderly drawdown is one bright spot in a difficult region, yet the departure of the 4th Stryker Brigade is not a decisive “mission accomplished” moment in Iraq. news, politics, war, opinion, analysis, nationworld, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, center_for_american_progress 2010-08-20T14:08:36+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/081910_murdoch_donation/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/081910_murdoch_donation/#When: 00:17:22Z Eric Alterman Much of the media world is understandably agog at the size of the million-dollar donation Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation gave to the Republican Governors Association. The News Corp empire is vast and wide, and it deliberately slants the news while shamelessly promoting blatant disinformation in platform after platform all over the world. news, politics, business, media, opinion, analysis, nationworld, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, center_for_american_progress, columnist 2010-08-20T00:17:22+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/081810_groundzero_op/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/081810_groundzero_op/#When: 16:12:58Z HDS Greenway The controversy over a mosque close to the World Trade Center site can do irreparable harm to United States foreign policy and its struggle against Islamic extremism. It gives strength to Osama bin Laden’s contention that the West is at war with Islam, and that it is the duty of every Muslim to resist. news, politics, business, faith, war, opinion, analysis, nationworld, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, globalpost 2010-08-18T16:12:58+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/081710_anchorbabies/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/081710_anchorbabies/#When: 14:55:39Z Morgan Smith Proposals to abolish the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship provision have ricocheted through the political noise machine. What would the removal of birthright citizenship mean for the country? Pierce the fog of rhetoric and you’ll quickly discover that nobody really knows. news, politics, border, family, local, arizona, nationworld, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, analysis, mexico_latin 2010-08-17T14:55:39+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/081210_testscores/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/081210_testscores/#When: 22:34:36Z Justin Snider Tough talk on teacher accountability is all the rage this summer. Trouble is, we don’t know how to handle the perverse incentives that arise the moment we place undue weight on easily manipulated exams. But that hasn’t stopped a slew of education leaders from weighing in on the need to hold teachers’ feet to the fire. news, politics, education, family, opinion, analysis, nationworld, breaking 2010-08-12T22:34:36+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/08092010_race_politics/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/08092010_race_politics/#When: 11:26:56Z Jimmy Zuma Smart v. Stupid: Conservative politics over the past two years has a common thread that looks an awful lot like an attempt to maintain white supremacy. But it’s a tragic mistake to try to defend the dominance of white-centric culture. news, politics, faith, family, opinion, analysis, nationworld, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, columnist 2010-08-09T11:26:56+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/080610_gay_marriage_op/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/080610_gay_marriage_op/#When: 18:55:28Z Ian Millhiser Wednesday’s court decision that gay couples love just as intensely, care for their children just as deeply, and are entitled to the very same dignity as straight spouses may be the judiciary’s single most important blow against inequality since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education. news, politics, family, opinion, analysis, nationworld, breaking, center_for_american_progress 2010-08-06T18:55:28+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/080610_media_right/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/080610_media_right/#When: 18:31:11Z Eric Alterman Opinion: The notion that the nastiness and dishonesty that is coming from the left is comparable to that coming from Breitbart, Limbaugh, Beck, and the entire cast of characters at Fox News and on conservative talk radio would be laughable were it not mindlessly repeated news, politics, media, opinion, analysis, nationworld, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, center_for_american_progress, columnist 2010-08-06T18:31:11+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/080510_afghan_op/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/080510_afghan_op/#When: 15:31:51Z Jonathan Moore As United States foreign policy makers wrestle about Afghanistan, three temptations must be forcefully resisted: re-asserting the U.S. commitment to winning the insurgency war against the Taliban; weakening the U.S. plan to begin withdrawing forces; and blocking local and regional efforts to negotiate a resolution. news, politics, war, opinion, analysis, nationworld, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, globalpost 2010-08-05T15:31:51+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/073010_wikileaks_op/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/073010_wikileaks_op/#When: 18:35:06Z Stephen Engelberg The release of more than 75,000 classified documents by WikiLeaks this week makes the old arrangement between reporters and sources regarding government secrets seem as quaint as vinyl records and typewriters. nationworld, news, politics, media, war, opinion, analysis, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, propublica 2010-07-30T18:35:06+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/072710_sheehan_wikileaks/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/072710_sheehan_wikileaks/#When: 15:39:33Z Marian Wang Classified documents leaked in a time of war. The comparisons abound, but what did the Pentagon Papers say about Vietnam, and what do the War Logs tell us now? We asked Neil Sheehan, who reported the Pentagon Papers story for the New York Times. nationworld, news, politics, media, history, war, opinion, analysis, breaking, propublica 2010-07-27T15:39:33+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/072610_journalism_integrity/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/072610_journalism_integrity/#When: 03:56:34Z Jimmy Zuma Smart v. Stupid: Bloggers seldom have the benefit of an editor, but one has to wonder if it would have made any difference to Andrew Breitbart, the man who published the salacious snip of a speech by USDA employee Shirley Sherrod, then labeled her a racist. The next day, we all found out that she was exactly the opposite of what he’d claimed. nationworld, news, politics, media, opinion, analysis, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, columnist 2010-07-26T03:56:34+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/072110_brit_afghan/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/072110_brit_afghan/#When: 18:14:49Z Michael Goldfarb Three weeks ago British Prime Minister Cameron made clear he wanted all British troops home by 2015. At the start of this week Britain’s defense secretary said 2014. Following his meeting Tuesday with President Obama, 2011 is the new target date to begin withdrawal. nationworld, news, politics, war, opinion, analysis, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, globalpost 2010-07-21T18:14:49+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/072110_daniel_ortega/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/072110_daniel_ortega/#When: 18:05:57Z Tim Rogers Is Ortega pushing Nicaragua toward a retro-tropical dictatorship with a God complex? The constitution prohibits the president from seeking re-election, but the ruling Sandinista party, which Ortega runs like a family business, has made it clear it intends to remain in power for a long time. nationworld, news, politics, opinion, analysis, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, globalpost, mexico_latin 2010-07-21T18:05:57+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/072010_unions/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/072010_unions/#When: 17:42:59Z Karla Walter Americans have expressed positive attitudes toward unions for as long as pollsters have been asking, and for decades approval of labor unions has hovered around 60%. But starting in 2009 public opinion toward labor unions dropped. Why? nationworld, news, politics, business, history, opinion, analysis, breaking, hub_headlines, center_for_american_progress 2010-07-20T17:42:59+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071910_tenthers/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071910_tenthers/#When: 16:38:44Z Ian Millhiser Opinion: Spend a week listening to the right, and you’ll think the founders were all modern-day Tea Partiers. It’s enough to make you think they’re just making it up as they go along. Yet the reality is even worse. When the right’s view of the Constitution was ascendant 75 years ago, basic protections such as a restriction on child labor were declared unconstitutional. nationworld, news, politics, history, opinion, analysis, breaking, lead_ok, center_for_american_progress 2010-07-19T16:38:44+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071910_first_amendment_ii/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071910_first_amendment_ii/#When: 08:45:20Z Jimmy Zuma Smart v. Stupid: When one of the nation’s most venerable newspapers gets it so wrong on free speech, one worries who might be left to speak up for personal liberty. nationworld, news, politics, business, history, opinion, analysis, breaking, hub_headlines, columnist 2010-07-19T08:45:20+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071810_pakistansecular/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071810_pakistansecular/#When: 00:12:11Z Sonya Fatah Dogged by internal crises, the rise of intolerant extremism, and a deliberately apathetic state and military response, Pakistan’s future seems bleak. Returning to a secular state may be the answer. nationworld, news, politics, faith, war, opinion, analysis, guestopinion, breaking, hub_headlines, globalpost 2010-07-19T00:12:11+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071610_israelpalestine/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071610_israelpalestine/#When: 18:34:40Z Matt Beynon Rees If you asked about a moment that encapsulates the tragedy of the Israelis and Palestinians, there’d be no shortage of incidents, fatal and wrathful, from which to choose. Here’s an occasion that was less shocking but just as poignant. nationworld, news, politics, war, opinion, analysis, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, globalpost 2010-07-16T18:34:40+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071410_independents/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071410_independents/#When: 17:56:58Z Bill Hart The rise of Arizona’s independents remains a very real and potentially decisive development in state politics — one echoed to various degrees across the country. But the likelihood is that this increasingly potent political force will fail to exert its influence in not one but both of their approaching electoral opportunities. Why? flags, news, politics, local, arizona, opinion, analysis, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, morrison_institute 2010-07-14T17:56:58+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071410_northkorea/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071410_northkorea/#When: 15:10:30Z Justin McCurry What do the sinking of a ship, stalled talks and Kim Jong Il’s secretive son add up to? Trouble. nationworld, news, politics, war, opinion, analysis, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, globalpost 2010-07-14T15:10:30+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071310_dangedfence/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071310_dangedfence/#When: 06:23:45Z Bill Hart Analysis: Public-policy debates can generate their own, almost irresistible momentum. In the heat of rhetorical battle, we can be so busy scrambling after new data and devising cleverer arguments that we leave older yet unresolved matters behind. Case in point: What McCain recently termed “the danged fence.” nationworld, news, politics, border, local, arizona, opinion, analysis, breaking, morrison_institute 2010-07-14T06:23:45+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071310_morrison_cleanelections/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/071310_morrison_cleanelections/#When: 05:45:08Z Kristin Borns Analysis: A dizzying number of contradicting court rulings has been issued on Clean Elections as litigation worked all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. Arizona again is on cusp of a fundamental change in how elections are funded, but exactly how that will play out is anything but clear. flags, news, politics, local, arizona, opinion, analysis, breaking, morrison_institute 2010-07-14T05:45:08+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/070810_navarrette_brewer/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local|sports|arts|opinion|nationworld/report/070810_navarrette_brewer/#When: 17:35:03Z Ruben Navarrette Jr. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has figured out at least this much: Mexican drug dealers are, to average folks, much scarier than Mexican dishwashers. So Brewer, who is running for election, has decided to make one the face of the other — all Mexicans being interchangeable, after all. nationworld, news, politics, border, crime, local, arizona, opinion, analysis, breaking, hub_headlines, lead_ok, globalpost 2010-07-08T17:35:03+00:00