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I Vs. We: The 'Heart' Of Our Political Differences

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E.J. Dionne Jr. writes a weekly column for The Washington Post on national policy and politics. He lives in Bethesda, Md., with his wife, Mary, and their three children.

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Originally published on Tue May 22, 2012 5:45 pm

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For years now, the Tea Party has held individualism up as the great American value. But Washington Post columnist and Georgetown University professor E.J. Dionne Jr. says that while Americans have always prized individualism, they've prized community just as much.

3:30 pm

Tue May 22, 2012

'It Worked For Me': Life Lessons From Colin Powell

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Colin Powell, then chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff under George H. W. Bush, makes a point about the entrenched Iraqi troops in Kuwait during a briefing at the Pentagon in January 1991.

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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell addresses the U.N. Security Council in New York on Feb. 5, 2003. He presented evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction — that turned out not to exist.

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Powell endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008. "I'm proud of the vote I cast for him in 2008, I think he was absolutely the right choice," Powell says. When it comes to the 2012 election, Powell says he's "not prepared" to say who he'll be voting for.

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Originally published on Tue May 22, 2012 4:50 pm

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If you're looking for advice on leadership, it's good to start with a four-star general. Colin Powell's new memoir, It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership, is a collection of lessons learned and anecdotes drawn from his childhood in the Bronx, his military training and career, and his work under four presidential administrations. The memoir also includes Powell's candid reflections on the most controversial time in his career: the lead-up to the war in Iraq in 2003.

7:21 pm

Mon May 21, 2012

All Routine PSA Tests For Prostate Cancer Should End, Task Force Says

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Terry Dyroff, at home in Silver Spring, Md., got a PSA blood test that led to a prostate biopsy. The biopsy found no cancer, but it gave him a life-threatening infection.

By Richard Knox

Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 1:33 pm

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There they go again — those 17 federally appointed experts at the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are telling American doctors and patients to stop routinely doing lifesaving tests.

5:22 pm

Mon May 21, 2012

Task Force: Men Don't Need Regular Prostate Tests

By Richard Knox

Originally published on Mon May 21, 2012 6:00 pm

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A federal task force has concluded that men over 50 don't need a regular blood test for prostate cancer. Millions of men get the test every year. The task force says too many unnecessary treatments are being performed because of the test.

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3:18 pm

Mon May 21, 2012

NewsPoet: Carmen G. Smith Writes The Day In Verse

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Carmen Gimenez Smith visits NPR headquarters in Washington on Monday.

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Originally published on Wed July 25, 2012 10:30 am

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Today at All Things Considered, we continue a project we're calling NewsPoet. Each month, we bring in a poet to spend time in the newsroom — and at the end of the day, to compose a poem reflecting on the day's stories.

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