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Reports: A Religious War Out of Thin Air

Ear to the Ground: Sheldon Adelson: An Anti-Semite’s Dream

Reports: Contraception and the Cost of Culture Wars

Reports: White Nationalists Share Spotlight With GOP at CPAC

Reports: Clint, Rick and the Limits of Pessimism

A/V Booth: Bill Moyers Makes Newt Gingrich Look Like an Idiot

Reports: Romney Hasn’t Won Yet

Reports: Romney’s Indifference to the Poor

Reports: Politics as Entertainment

Reports: What Newt Learned From Nixon

Reports: So Much for a Populist GOP

Reports: The Day the Internet Roared

Reports: Election Will Decide Which New Wars Will Be Waged

Reports: Moving Obama to Europe

Reports: What Kind of Capitalist Was Romney?

Reports: America’s 5 Political Parties

Reports: Two Jerks

Reports: Search and Destroy Mission

Reports: Santorum, Huntsman and the Future of Conservatism

A/V Booth: A ‘Fuck You’ From Iowa

Reports: Extravagant Hopes of 2008 Haunt Obama in 2012

Reports: A Brainpower Revolution

Reports: Obama: The Conservative in 2012

Reports: Newt and the Revenge of the Base

Reports: Been There, Thought That

Reports: The New Newt

Reports: A Huntsman Moment?

Cartoons: The 2012 Presidential Dejection

Reports: The GOP’s Rational Reality Show

Cartoons: Mitt Romney

Reports: Will Moderates Defeat Moderation?

Reports: Romney Still Waiting for GOP Love

Reports: It’s Time to Occupy the Majority

Reports: The Easiest Way to Cut the Deficit

Reports: The True Conservative Scandal

Reports: Why Income Inequality Suddenly Matters

Reports: The Right Wing’s 2011 Shellacking

Reports: The Politics of the Heavenly and Unheavenly

Reports: Romney and the South Carolina Conundrum

Reports: Have and Have-Not Nation

Reports: The Vatican Meets the Occupiers

Reports: Perry, Cain and Flat Earth Government

Reports: What Romney’s Religion Reveals About His Politics

Reports: Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party Movements More Alike Than Not

Reports: Rick Santorum’s Family Provocation

Reports: The Tax Hikes That Republicans Love

Reports: The Rise of the Reverse Houdinis

Reports: If a Republican Were President

Reports: Refuting Straw Liberals

Reports: The Week Politics Changed

Reports: Can the Left Stage a Tea Party?

Reports: Class Warfare: Bring It On!

Reports: Why They Hate Warren Buffett

Reports: Only Conservatives Can End the Death Penalty

Ear to the Ground: The Right Reacts to Krugman’s 9/11 Post

Reports: Flaming Hypocrisy

Reports: How to Honor the True Spirit of 9/11: First, Ignore Limbaugh

Reports: The Election March of the Trolls

Reports: The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas

Reports: President Bachmann: Another Mideast Messiah

Reports: Straw Poll Winner: Obama

Reports: The New Old Obama

Reports: Wisconsin: Conservatives Win, Liberals Gain

Reports: Can America Still Lead?

Ear to the Ground: Rick Perry to Run for President Starting This Weekend

Reports: Oh, What a Tea Party!

Reports: Power of the Big Idea

Reports: Yes to Moderation, No to Centrism

Reports: After the Debt Ceiling Fiasco

Reports: The Limits of Compromise

Reports: Republican Goofery Isn’t Limited to the Tea Party

Reports: Blowing Up the House

Ear to the Ground: New Defense Secretary Spreads Bush’s Lies About Iraq

Reports: Washington Dysfunction: A Scorecard

Reports: Defending the Supremely Powerful

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

Reports: The Economy Is Bad Enough

Reports: Huntsman: Yes, He Might

A/V Booth: Left-Wing ‘Power’ Digs Into the Right-Wing Juggernaut

Reports: The Canary in the GOP Coal Mine

Reports: No Need to Demagogue the Ryan Plan

Reports: Cutting Kids’ Health Care Will Make Deficits Bigger

Reports: The Sky Really Is Falling

Arts and Culture: Words From the Right: On Buckley and From Paul and Breitbart

Reports: The Gingrich Style

Reports: Obama Gets No Credit for Courage

Reports: ‘Electronic Brownshirts’

Reports: Will the Courts Wreck Health Care?

Reports: The Government: Credit Where Credit Is Due

Reports: Tough Enough

Ear to the Ground: Obama Runs Into Signing Statements Firestorm

Reports: At Last: A President, Not a Ref

Reports: Demanding the Impossible

Reports: The Right’s War on Moderation

Reports: The End of Progressive Government?

Cartoons: Stinkers

Reports: Paradox and Principle in the New Mideast

Reports: Why the GOP Is Obsessed With ‘Leadership’

Reports: How America Doubled Its Brainpower

Cartoons: NPR Left Turn

Reports: What’s So Scary About NPR?

Reports: People Power vs. Washington

Ear to the Ground: NPR Controversy Fueled by Dishonest Editing

Reports: The ’80s Origins of Today’s Anti-Muslim Bigotry

Reports: The American Inquisition of 2011

Reports: This Time We’re Taking the Whole Planet With Us

Reports: The GOP’s Ingenious Madman Strategy

Reports: Yes, America Still Needs Unions

Arts and Culture: How the Democrats Killed Roosevelt’s Dream of the Affordable Home

Reports: The Submerged State

Reports: Obama and the Failure of the Deficit Hawks

Reports: Fear Not the Muslim Brotherhood Boogeyman

Ear to the Ground: Shirley Sherrod Strikes Back

Reports: Freedom’s Just Another Word

Reports: The Last Reagan Campaign: Legacy

Reports: With Democracy or Against It—There’s No In Between

Reports: Countering the Usurpers

Reports: America’s Foreign Policy Revolution

Reports: The Right Smears ElBaradei

Reports: Saad’s Revolution

Reports: Can Obama Make Sense of Government?

Reports: Meat-Cleaver Budgeting

Reports: How Obama Can Define Moderation

Reports: How Violent Talk Blocks Sane Gun Laws

Ear to the Ground: ‘Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand’

Reports: Washington Loves a Paradox

Reports: The House of Professors

Reports: Economic Suicide

Ear to the Ground: When Conservatives Celebrate Terrorists

Reports: ‘The Left Has Nowhere to Go’

Reports: A Snow-Filled Glimpse of America’s Future

Reports: Will Liberals Learn From Adversity?

Ear to the Ground: Conservative Brains Have More Fear, Less Courage

A/V Booth: Who Doesn’t Want to Shower With Barney Frank?

Reports: Sept. 11 Heroes Disdained on the Right

Reports: Why the ‘Lazy Jobless’ Myth Persists

Reports: Labels Aren’t the Problem

Reports: Every Man His Own Historian

Reports: Obama Speaks Ill of His Allies

Reports: Blaming Obama’s America First

Reports: Iran’s Best Friends on Capitol Hill

Reports: The Thanksgiving Wars? No Thanks

Reports: Calling the Bluff on Deficits

Reports: Professor Obama’s Teachable Moment

Reports: Republicans Repeal Health Care at Their Peril

Reports: Do Only Conservative Victories Count?

A/V Booth: Brave New PacMan

Ear to the Ground: David Sirota Tells Conservative Democrats to Go Fuck Themselves

Ear to the Ground: Blue Dogs Get Taken to the Pound

Reports: And Now for the Next Battle

Reports: Joe Sestak’s Witching Hour

Ear to the Ground: U.K. to Slash Defense Spending

Reports: Waiting for Another Watergate

Reports: The Wave and the Reality

Reports: The GOP’s Triple Play

Reports: The Imperial Defense of Pentagon Bloat

Reports: ‘Crazy Carl’ and the Limits of Anger

Reports: Gorbachev’s ‘New Policy Forum’ Hints at the Future

Reports: Tory vs. Voodoo Conservatism

Reports: Look Who’s Killing Jobs Now

Reports: Lies of the Tea Party

Reports: Are Obama’s Hands Tied?

Reports: What the Pot Legalization Campaign Really Threatens

Cartoons: This Much

Reports: Twisting Obama’s Words

Reports: A Chance for Supreme Court Damage Control

Reports: It’s Not Over Till It’s Over

Reports: Church Picnic With a Buzz

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Is Not Martin Luther King Jr.

Reports: Inching Away From Bullfighting and Its Macho B.S.

Reports: The Primary Differences

Reports: Right-Wing Wusses

Ear to the Ground: Ron Paul Condemns ‘Hate and Islamaphobia’

Reports: Forget the ‘Party of No,’ Dems Need to Run Against Extremism

Reports: Courage and Lower Manhattan

Ear to the Ground: Howard Dean Sounds Like a Conservative Blogger (Update: Dean Responds)

Reports: The Racists Return

Reports: Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich Need a History Lesson

Reports: ‘Dropping Babies,’ Abandoning Principles

Reports: The Politics of Stupidity Strike Again

Reports: Using Race to Smear Obama

Reports: An Electoral Dry Run Down Under

Ear to the Ground: White House Apologizes for Firing ‘Injustice’

Reports: The Socialist Who Coddles Business?

Reports: The NAACP and the Tea Party’s Flag-Burners

Reports: There’s Just No Pleasing Some Robber Barons

Reports: Are Low Taxes Exacerbating the Recession?

Reports: Show Us the Money

Reports: Judicial Change to Believe In

Reports: Unhinged on the Right

Reports: The Land Where Theories of Warfare Go to Die

Reports: Whose Supreme Court Is It?

Reports: 5 Million Iraqis Killed, Maimed, Tortured, Displaced—Think That Bothers War Boosters?

Reports: All Shook Up for BP

Reports: How Obama Changed the Right

Ear to the Ground: Justice Dept. to Challenge Arizona Law

Reports: A Loss Won’t Silence the Democratic Left

Reports: Israel From 10,000 Feet

Reports: Souter’s Challenge to Scalia

Reports: Rep. Alan Grayson Introduces the ‘War Is Making You Poor Act’

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