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Reports: Colbert Conservatives and Military Waste

Reports: Understanding Our Hollow ‘Centrists’

Ear to the Ground: Report: Obama to Expand Afghan War by 50 Percent

Ear to the Ground: Obama to Make a Cameo in Copenhagen

Reports: Like It or Not, Health Care Mandate Is Constitutional

Reports: Delay Worked for Kennedy

Reports: Obama Risks Losing His Judicial Prize

Reports: Refuse Allegiance to Coal

Ear to the Ground: Give Kennedy His Cracker

Reports: Obama’s Third Way in Afghanistan

Reports: Intelligentsia Against Intelligence

Reports: The Afghanistan Speech Obama Should Give (but Won’t)

Reports: GOP Obstruction Goes Unnoticed—and Unpunished

Reports: Three Abortion Coverage Myths

Reports: Catholic Bishops Put Sex Obsession Ahead of the Sick and the Poor

Ear to the Ground: Senate Liberals to Majority Leader: No More Compromise

Reports: Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?

Reports: Testing Next Year’s Lies Today

Reports: Where Does the Caving End?

Reports: Department of Health Care Misinformation

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Health Care Bill

Ear to the Ground: The Rich? They Get Elected

Reports: Republicans vs. the Palinites

Reports: The GOP’s Toxic Tea Party

Ear to the Ground: Carly Fiorina Taking On Barbara Boxer for Senate Seat

Reports: Not Right Wing but Still Angry

Reports: 2009 Elections Don’t Foretell a Thing

Reports: Today’s U.S. Army and Its Ambitions

Reports: The Tortured Logic Continues

Reports: A Record You Can Believe In

Ear to the Ground: New York 3-Way Gets Even More Interesting

Reports: McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama?

Reports: TARP on Steroids

Reports: Hug Obama, Find the Moderates

Ear to the Ground: Surprise! Lieberman Stabs Dems in the Back

Ear to the Ground: Senate Bill Will Include Public Option

A/V Booth: Robert Reich: Make a Ruckus

Reports: War Is a Hate Crime

Reports: Wall Street ‘Crimes’ Need Better Policing

Reports: Don’t Worry About Us Seniors

Reports: GOP Civil War Flares in New York

Ear to the Ground: Nancy Pelosi Promises Public Option on the Cheap

Reports: Obama Can’t Lose the Young

Reports: When Did Olympia Snowe Become Queen of America?

Reports: With Al-Qaida Fading, Why Expand the Afghan War?

Ear to the Ground: Sorry Grandma, No COLA for You

Reports: Looking for a Middle Class

Cartoons: Diagnosis

Reports: Lt. Choi Won’t Lie for His Country

Reports: Bribe, Vote, Repeat

Ear to the Ground: The Poor Will Have to Wait for Health Care Help

Reports: Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan

Reports: Rangel’s Portrait of Corruption

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Responds to Republicans’ Sexist Nonsense

Reports: Meltdown After the Meltdown

Reports: Stimulation Without the S-Word

Reports: Why Obama Must Spend More

Reports: The Gay Divorce Fandango

Ear to the Ground: How Fox News Rigs Polls

Reports: Gen. McChrystal’s Celebrity Weekend

Ear to the Ground: D.C. Expected to Legalize Gay Marriage

Reports: The Missing Health Care Debate

Reports: Put a Sock in it, Stan

Ear to the Ground: Obama Pressures Senate on Public Option

Reports: War Kills Off Great Reform Movements

Reports: Pox Americana: The Real Cost of Bailing Out Wall Street

Reports: Who’s in Charge: Obama, Congress or the Military?

Reports: ‘Socialism’ and Sham in the Senate

Arts and Culture: Capitalism Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

Ear to the Ground: Grayson’s Comments Spark Congressional Flame War

A/V Booth: Congressman: Republicans Are ‘Knuckle-Dragging Neanderthals’

Ear to the Ground: The $380 Million Gorilla

Reports: A Question of Health—and Equality

Reports: Making Tragedy Out of Farce

Reports: The Public Option Only Looks Dead

Reports: In Europe, the Left Has Run Out of Gas

Reports: Washington Plays the Idiot With Guantanamo

Reports: Massachusetts Looks for Life After Teddy

Reports: Reflections on the ‘Godfather’ of Neoconservatism

Ear to the Ground: House Votes to Pay Nation’s Bills, Tosses In a Bit for Itself

Reports: Let Blue Dogs Face the Music

Reports: Charity Should Begin With Charities

Reports: Health Reform Money Is Aimed at Red States

Reports: Obama TV: How the President Revived Health Care

Ear to the Ground: Justice to Tackle Federal Secrecy Abuses

Ear to the Ground: Shady Deal Showered Top Blue Dog With Cash

Reports: A Clunker, Not a Cadillac

Ear to the Ground: Newspaper Bailout? Maybe, but Don’t Hold Your Breath

Ear to the Ground: AIG on the Mend?

Reports: Talk of Bipartisanship Is Now Thoroughly Warped

Reports: Selective Deficit Disorder

Reports: Jimmy Carter Is Right

Reports: Joe Wilson’s Confederate Cronies

Reports: Clinging to Civility

Reports: Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

Ear to the Ground: Santorum Wants to Be President, Has a Poo Problem

Reports: The Other Public Options

A/V Booth: Kanye Heckles Obama?

Cartoons: Appease and Carrots

Reports: Stop Begging Obama and Get Mad

Reports: Wilson and Our National Character

Reports: Homeland Security Spending Marked by Waste, Shoddy Oversight

Ear to the Ground: Is Rep. Joe Wilson Winning?

Cartoons: Obama M.D. [A Cartoon From Germany]

Reports: We’ve Seen This Trigger Before

Reports: No Way to Treat a President

Reports: A Speech Even Insurance Companies Could Love

Reports: A Perfect Storm of Idiocy

Reports: Obama’s Health Care Reset

Reports: Full Text of the President’s Speech to Congress

A/V Booth: Video: Obama’s Health Care Speech to Congress

A/V Booth: Obama Heckled During Speech

Ear to the Ground: Ted Kennedy’s Letter From Beyond the Grave

Ear to the Ground: Republicans Ask Reformed Birther to Rebut Obama

Reports: The United States of Plutocracy

Arts and Culture: ‘Dancing’ With Tom DeLay

Reports: States Ignoring Stimulus Welfare Fund

Reports: Food Is Power and the Powerful Are Poisoning Us

Reports: It Could Be the End of Our Democracy as We Know It

Reports: Progressives Pay the Price for Confusing a Party With a Movement

Reports: Don’t Be Fooled by the Public Option

Reports: Distorting the Voice of the People

Reports: New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks

Ear to the Ground: 3 Reasons Eliot Spitzer Should Run Again

Reports: How Obama Can Win on Health Care

Cartoons: Kennedy’s Shadow

Reports: Law, Not Torture, Protects National Security

Ear to the Ground: How About ‘Cash for My Crap Mortgage’?

Reports: The Eternal Flame

A/V Booth: Ted Kennedy in Pictures

Reports: Only One U.S. Official Has Taken an Honorable Stand on Torture

Reports: Status Quo Is Not an Option

Reports: This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery

Reports: Progressives Are the Key to Reform

Reports: Missing: Democrats’ Passion

Reports: Obama’s Enforcer: Not Really Tough Enough

Reports: Enabling the Gun Nuts

Reports: You Can’t Blame Obama for American Stubbornness

Ear to the Ground: ‘Nothing Has Changed’ for Public Option

Reports: Phantom of the Health Care Soap Opera

Reports: Playing Defense Isn’t Working

Reports: Pulling the Plug on the Public Option

Ear to the Ground: Obama Feels Liberal Backlash on Public Option

Reports: 10 Awesome Reasons to Pass Health Reform

Ear to the Ground: Georgia Republican Worries Dems Will Declare Martial Law

Ear to the Ground: What Do Billie Jean King and Bob Dole’s Running Mate Have in Common?

Ear to the Ground: Contractor Waste of Tax Dollars Continues

Reports: Letting the Banking Rats Out of the Bag

Ear to the Ground: House Grounds Fancy Plane Plan

Reports: Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America’s Dirty Work

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Targets Afghan Drug Suspects for Killing

Reports: 35 Years After Nixon

Reports: The Me-First, Screw-Everyone-Else Crowd

Ear to the Ground: Hold On to Your Clunkers, the Cash Is Coming

Reports: Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

A/V Booth: Pesky National Debt Wiped Out by Faux Coup

Reports: A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House

Ear to the Ground: Guantanamo 2

Reports: The Electricity in Your Garbage

Reports: ‘Judicial Activism’ on Campaign Finance Law

Ear to the Ground: Health Bill Survives House Committee Vote

Reports: Health Care Tyranny by 13 Obstructionists

Ear to the Ground: ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Plan Suspended

Reports: America’s Homeland Security Surplus

Reports: A Time, Again, for Bill Clinton

Reports: The Marvel That Is Medicare

Reports: Less Than Perfect Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: Public Option Headed for Senate Death

Reports: Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups

Reports: Let NRA-Loving Senators Practice What They Preach

A/V Booth: Progressives Campaign Against Democrats

Reports: The Attack of the 1-Percenters

Ear to the Ground: How the Democrats Sucker-Punched Labor

Reports: The Politics of Tenacity

Reports: Health Plan: Ask ‘What,’ Not ‘When’

Reports: Taking On ‘Big Food’

Ear to the Ground: Obama Pushes Health Care in the Face of Delays

Reports: Take Politics Out of Health Care Reform

Reports: Obama Means Business About Two-State Solution

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes Down Military Boondoggle

A/V Booth: Not All Scandals Are Equal

Reports: Obama’s Aces in the Hole

Reports: Dennis vs. Goliath

Truthdig Podcast: Dennis vs. Goliath

Ear to the Ground: House Committee to Launch CIA Probe

Ear to the Ground: Obama on Health Care: ‘We Are Going to Get This Done’

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Gut Union Bill

Reports: Stains From the Bush Era Won’t Fade

Reports: Pelosi’s Toothless ‘Commission’

Reports: Health Insurance Whistle-Blower Knows Where the Bodies Are Buried

Ear to the Ground: Confirmation Remarks Worth Revisiting

Ear to the Ground: CIA Program Too Good to Be True?

Reports: Sotomayor’s Critics Are the Real Radicals

Ear to the Ground: Cheney’s CIA Cover-Up

Ear to the Ground: Basis of Domestic Surveillance Was ‘Flawed,’ Report Finds

Ear to the Ground: CIA ‘Lied’ to Congress

Reports: The Unemployed Will Roar

Ear to the Ground: Progressives Flex Health Care Muscle

Arts and Culture: Alec Baldwin Considering Congressional Bid

Ear to the Ground: Obama Still Backs Public Option

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