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Reports: Romney’s Overriding Ambition

Reports: Embracing ‘Enough’

Cartoons: State of the Union

Reports: Mitch Daniels: Bombast From the Past

Ear to the Ground: Obama Aims State of the Union Address at the Working Class

Reports: Thank You for Standing Up

Reports: Surviving the Hell of War, and Then Some

A/V Booth: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Explains Why She’s Resigning From Congress

Reports: The Day the Internet Roared

Cartoons: Where the Buck Stops

Reports: Why I’m Suing Barack Obama

Ear to the Ground: Who’s Supporting SOPA and PIPA?

Reports: Guantanamo at 10: The Prisoner and the Prosecutor

Ear to the Ground: A Decade of Guantanamo

Reports: Stuck in the Bloody Primaries

Ear to the Ground: Another Kennedy Mulls a Run for Congress

Reports: Did Reagan Raise Taxes? Let GOP Candidates Answer

Reports: Marginalizing Ron Paul

Reports: A Brainpower Revolution

Cartoons: Shades of Boehner

Ear to the Ground: Krugman Deems PolitiFact ‘Useless and Irrelevant’

Reports: Dennis Kucinich on the NDAA and ‘War Without End’

Reports: Three Supreme Court Cases That Should Worry You

Ear to the Ground: House Hits the Pause Button on SOPA

Reports: Bernie Sanders Explains Why Congress Fears Citizens United

Reports: The New Newt

Reports: There Goes the Republic

Ear to the Ground: Human Rights Watch Says Obama Will Go Down in History—and Not in a Good Way

Reports: Iran: A Dangerous Game

Reports: Government-Sponsored Sinner

Reports: Listen to the People, Not the Polluters

Reports: China Profits From U.S.-Pakistan Shipwreck

Cartoons: Dual Trigger Double Barrel

Reports: Thought Crime in Washington

Reports: Will Moderates Defeat Moderation?

Cartoons: NBA Super Committee

Reports: Obama’s Catholic Friends and Enemies

Ear to the Ground: Survey: Number of Religious Lobbying Groups in D.C. Is Up Fivefold

Arts and Culture: Russell Simmons, OWS Crusader

Ear to the Ground: The Free Internet Could Soon Die—Is Anyone Watching?

Reports: ‘Super Committee’ Fails to Overcome Republican Dogma

Cartoons: It’s a Flipped Bird, It’s a Pain, it’s ...

Reports: The Republicans Aren’t Funny, They’re Scary

Cartoons: Occupy Congress

Ear to the Ground: Gov’t Shutdown Crisis Averted (Again)

Reports: The Easiest Way to Cut the Deficit

Reports: Where Does Occupy Go From Here?

Ear to the Ground: Study: Nearly Half of Congress Members Are Millionaires

Ear to the Ground: Report Claims Rep. Bachus Capitalized on Financial Meltdown

Cartoons: Super Committee Thanksgiving

Reports: Why Income Inequality Suddenly Matters

Reports: The War Against the Poor

Reports: Bloomberg vs. Occupy Wall Street

Ear to the Ground: And the Worst Natural Disaster Is …

Cartoons: Do No Harm

Ear to the Ground: Matt Taibbi Tells Michael Bloomberg to Sex Himself

Reports: 3 Signs Anti-Wall Streeters Are Succeeding

Reports: Have and Have-Not Nation

Reports: The Worst Generation

A/V Booth: Colbert to Alabama: I Told You So

Reports: Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed

Reports: Let Them Eat Keller

Reports: The Tax Hikes That Republicans Love

Reports: Government by Death Panel

Cartoons: Occupy Sesame Street

Ear to the Ground: Schumer Sees Democrats Hanging On to Senate

Ear to the Ground: Elizabeth Warren Bags $3 Million

Reports: Why the Elites Are in Trouble

Reports: The Week Politics Changed

Reports: Stopping the Insanity

Reports: What Do They Want? Justice

Reports: American Government’s Indifference to Popular Protest

Ear to the Ground: Robert Reich Points a Way Out of the ‘Jobs Depression’

Reports: The Men We Trusted to Lead Us

Ear to the Ground: Senate OKs Compromise Funding Deal

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Who’s the Bad Wolf Today?

Ear to the Ground: From Top to Bottom, Supercommittee Is in the War Lobby’s Pocket

Cartoons: Congress Trainer

Reports: No End in Sight for a Family’s Agonizing Guessing Game

Reports: The Racial Divide Is There and Waiting

Reports: The Fight-Back Plan

Reports: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace

Reports: Unhappy Democrats Threaten Obama Jobs Bill

Reports: Preserving Life (Unless It’s Uninsured)

Reports: Where Are the Compassionate Conservatives?

Reports: One Betrayal Too Many

Ear to the Ground: Elizabeth Warren Is Running for the Senate

Reports: How to Save the United States and Israel From Themselves

Reports: GOP Tunnel Vision

Reports: How Much Has Obama Learned About Republicans?

Reports: Obama Tells Congress Americans Don’t Have 14 Months

Ear to the Ground: Health Care Act Wins a Battle on Its Way to the Supreme Court

Reports: How Not to Commemorate 9/11

Reports: Homeland Security Office Creates ‘Intelligence Spam,’ Insiders Say

A/V Booth: Obama Labor Day Speech (Video and Transcript)

Ear to the Ground: Obama Previews Jobs Agenda

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Postal Service Begs Congress for Help

Reports: The Last Labor Day?

Reports: Republicans Put Wars Ahead of People

Reports: The Lesson of the Chinese Invasion

Reports: Who Pays for God’s Revenge?

Reports: Obama’s Paradox Problem

Ear to the Ground: ATF Chief Reassigned Over Deadly Sting

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Wasted $30 Billion on Contractors

Reports: The Election March of the Trolls

Reports: How Obama Can Save His Presidency

Ear to the Ground: The Cost of America’s Wars: Felt but Unknown

Ear to the Ground: Give Your Representative Your 2 Cents for $15

Reports: The New Old Obama

Reports: Hello, Washington? Is Anyone Listening?

Reports: America Is a Spark Away From Riots of Its Own

Cartoons: Wedgie Issues

Reports: Another Bailout Joins the Goofball Economy

Reports: A Downgrade’s GOP Fingerprints

Cartoons: Fowl Business

Cartoons: Blame THEM for the Crash

Reports: The Bizarro FDR

Reports: The Wrong Problem ‘Solved’

Truthdig Podcast: Kucinich Says Obama Got the Deal He Wanted

A/V Booth: Kucinich Says Obama Got the Deal He Wanted

Reports: Oh, What a Tea Party!

Cartoons: Obama Turns 50

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Debt Deal FAQ

Reports: The Recovery Is Dead, Long Live the Recovery

Cartoons: America’s Debt Problem

Cartoons: I’m a Little Teapot

Reports: A Retreat, Not a Rout

Ear to the Ground: Krugman Calls Obama’s ‘Surrender’ a ‘Catastrophe on Multiple Levels’

Ear to the Ground: ‘A Terrible Deal’

Ear to the Ground: Debt Deal to Cut at Least $1 Trillion (Video)

Cartoons: U.S. Debt Crisis Explained

Cartoons: Debt Crisis

Cartoons: Divided Government

Reports: Without a Debt Deal, Obama Can Make the Rich Pay

Reports: Why China Is Laughing All the Way to the Bank

Reports: Power of the Big Idea

Reports: Yes to Moderation, No to Centrism

Ear to the Ground: Congressman Arrested for Protesting Deportations

Reports: War Is a Racket

Reports: The Money Melodrama in Washington

Reports: Don’t Believe Everything You Read About Michele Bachmann—or Anyone Else

Reports: After the Debt Ceiling Fiasco

Ear to the Ground: FAA Prepares to Furlough 4,000 Workers

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Ready to End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Reports: The Terrorist Threat We’re Ignoring

A/V Booth: Alan Grayson Tells It Like It Is

Truthdig Podcast: Alan Grayson Tells It Like It Is

Reports: Blowing Up the House

Reports: ‘Dysfunctional’ Too Polite to Describe Tea Party Congress

Reports: Sorry Elizabeth, Wall Street Said No

Reports: Why Did Congress Waste Six Months?

Cartoons: Default Answer

Reports: Robin Hood in Reverse

Ear to the Ground: Forget Congress, Alan Grayson Should Pull a Palin

Reports: Obama’s Raw Deal?

Cartoons: USA Hits the Debt Ceiling

Cartoons: Elephant Trunks

Cartoons: Truth in Architecture

Reports: Washington Dysfunction: A Scorecard

Reports: Calling the GOP’s Bluff

Cartoons: Debt Ceiling Negotiations

Reports: John Dean Knows How to Get Rid of Clarence Thomas

Reports: The Economy Is Bad Enough

Reports: Gay Marriage: From Stonewall to Albany

Reports: Meet Michele Bachmann

Reports: Obama Is Wrong on War Powers

Cartoons: War Powers Act

Ear to the Ground: Hustler Publisher Offers Weiner a Job

Reports: Washington’s Deeper Immorality

A/V Booth: Bernie Sanders Goes After the Oil Industry

Reports: Gridlocking the Lives of the Jobless

Reports: America’s Energy Ethos: Do, Regardless of Harm

Reports: The Party of Righteous Indignation

Reports: Tweeting Our Way to Oblivion

Ear to the Ground: ‘Patriotic Millionaires’ Want Higher Taxes

Reports: Politicians Are Different From You and Me

Reports: Weiner’s No Longfellow

Reports: Playing With Default

Reports: The Brief on Rep. Weiner

Reports: Cutting Kids’ Health Care Will Make Deficits Bigger

A/V Booth: Beleaguered Rep. Weiner Endures Prolonged Twitter Scandal

Reports: Budget Problems, America? Try Ending Your Many Wars

Reports: Hope and Resistance in Honduras

Reports: The New American Segregation: The Military

Reports: GOP’s Self-Destruction Derby

Reports: Our Imagination Deficit

Reports: From Wisconsin to Florida, Strong Winds of Political Remorse

Ear to the Ground: Vermont Approves Universal Health Care

Reports: The Tea Party Is Yesterday’s News

A/V Booth: Netanyahu Brings Congress to Its Feet ... 29 Times

Ear to the Ground: Netanyahu Addresses Congress

Reports: A Medicare Moment for the GOP

Reports: The Speech Obama Should Have Given to AIPAC

Reports: Boehner’s Catholic Lessons

Ear to the Ground: Time’s Up: Obama Ignores War Powers Act in Drive Against Gadhafi

Reports: The Gingrich Style

Reports: Will Symbols Trump Logic?

Reports: Obama’s Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing?

Reports: The Government: Credit Where Credit Is Due

Reports: Tough Enough

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