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Ear to the Ground: Bill Clinton vs. George W. Bush

Reports: The Party of Choice

Reports: Trick or Treat for Climate Change

Ear to the Ground: Snowe Helps Baucus Bill Pass Committee Hurdle

A/V Booth: Keith Olbermann: Saving American Lives

Reports: The Missing Health Care Debate

Reports: ‘Socialism’ and Sham in the Senate

Reports: Making Tragedy Out of Farce

Reports: The Public Option Only Looks Dead

Reports: The War on Language

Reports: Obama TV: How the President Revived Health Care

Reports: Talk of Bipartisanship Is Now Thoroughly Warped

Reports: Testing the Obama Effect

Reports: The Other Public Options

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

Reports: Distorting the Voice of the People

Ear to the Ground: ‘Death With Dignity’ for the Public Option?

Reports: New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks

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

Reports: 10 Awesome Reasons to Pass Health Reform

Ear to the Ground: Team Obama Ready to Surrender Public Option?

Reports: A Reason for All the Health Care Rage

Reports: What if the Big Cheese Had Been White?

Reports: The Sickening Influence of Campaign Contributions

Ear to the Ground: Public Option or Bust

Ear to the Ground: Obama Comes Closer to Meddling

Reports: The Bipartisanship of Fools

Reports: Why Patch-and-Fill Won’t Do

Reports: Why So Scared of a Public Plan?

Reports: America’s Foreign Policy Phobias Are Overblown

Reports: Harry and Louise Need Health Reform

Ear to the Ground: Justice Dept. Lawyers Opposed Torture but Saw It as Legal

Arts and Culture: Susie Linfield on How to Think About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Reports: Prop. 8 and the Misery of the Law

Reports: What Rhetoric Won’t Cure

Reports: Rush and Newt Are Winning

Reports: America’s Changing Moral Universe

Reports: Sotomayor Is No Leftist

Reports: A Justice for Us All

Reports: Fresh Air Versus a Bunker

Reports: Enough With This ‘100 Days’ Nonsense

Arts and Culture: Eve Pell on America’s Culture of Punishment

Ear to the Ground: What You Dig

Arts and Culture: Jonathan Shapiro on ‘The Tyranny of Dead Ideas’

Reports: Daring to Utter the T Word

Reports: America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout

Reports: For Competition Before They Were Against It

Reports: The Point of Pointing Fingers

Reports: Population Boom in the Freezer

Reports: Put Single-Payer on the Table

Reports: Rushing Toward Irrelevance

Reports: Redistributionist, and That’s Just Fine

Reports: A Road-Trip Presidency

Reports: The High Cost of Centrism

Reports: Stronger, Please, Mr. President

Reports: Slam the Door on Compromise

Reports: Stimulus Skeptics Wrong (Again)

Reports: GOP Revs Up the Spin on Stimulus

Reports: Making Him Do It

Reports: Stimulus Brings on a Family Feud

Reports: Obama’s Stuck Playing the Same Lame Game

Ear to the Ground: Senate Sends Geithner to Treasury

Reports: Should the Torturers Go on Trial?

Reports: Navel-Gazing in the Grand Old Party

Arts and Culture: James Blight on McGeorge Bundy

Reports: Choice for Education Secretary Marks a New Path

Reports: Should She Be Sen. Kennedy?

Reports: You Can Never Have Too Many Kennedys in the Senate

Reports: We Told You So

Reports: The Beauty of Free Money

Reports: Not a Team of Rivals at All

Reports: Class Bigotry Mars Auto Debate

A/V Booth: Flashback: Obama Looks Forward to Clinton’s Advice

Reports: Confronting the Terrorist Within

Ear to the Ground: AIDS Theory Runs Amok

Reports: Why Obama Can Keep Gates

Reports: Not a Scratch on That Glass Ceiling

Reports: This Is What He’s Sorry About?

Reports: Some Blame Must Follow the Financial Collapse

Reports: A New Era of Hope

Reports: Only Nader Is Right on the Issues

Reports: The Obama Standard

Reports: Populism Arising—but Will It Be the Killer Kind?

Ear to the Ground: ‘Joe the Plumber’ in 2010?

A/V Booth: McCain’s Oil-Talk Addiction

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Looking Down the Final Stretch

Reports: McCain Sounds Worse Than He Looks

Reports: Stuck in the Primary

A/V Booth: McCain’s Scare Quotes

A/V Booth: The HBO Debate

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’: Getting Off at the NSA

Reports: Another Round of Dirty Tricks in Ohio

Ear to the Ground: Joe, the Plumber Who Wasn’t

Ear to the Ground: Obama 3, McCain 0

Reports: Endangering Choice

A/V Booth: Debate Preview: Batman vs. the Penguin

Cartoons: McMime

Reports: Palling Around With Meteorologists

Reports: This Is No Time for Specifics

Reports: Palin vs. Palin

Ear to the Ground: Citizens Against Government Waste, and for McCain

A/V Booth: Michelle Obama, Known Associate of Barack Obama, Visits ‘Daily Show’

Reports: Third-Party Blues

A/V Booth: Flashback: McCain Pledges to Run a ‘Respectful Campaign’

Ear to the Ground: Projectorgate 2008: Astronomers Fact-Check McCain

A/V Booth: Obama Responds to McCain-Palin Attacks

Reports: Honor Won and Lost

Reports: What McCain and Obama Don’t Know

Reports: The Real Stars of the Debate

Ear to the Ground: Obama Leads by 11

A/V Booth: McCain’s Brain and the Second Debate

Reports: Open the Debates

A/V Booth: 2008 Presidential Debates, Round Two

Reports: Obama Wins in Nashville

Reports: Nowhere for McCain to Go

Reports: What McCain and Obama Just Don’t Get About Central Asia

Truthdig Podcast: Bill Boyarsky on McCain’s Low Blows

Digs: Vetting Sarah Palin

A/V Booth: ‘SNL’ Spoofs the VP Debate

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: The Bailout Deal and the VP Debate

A/V Booth: ‘Middle East 101’ for Biden and Palin

A/V Booth: Clinton Chats With Seacrest About VP Debate

Reports: With Palin, McCain Is Gambling With the Country

Reports: Saying ‘No Deal’ to This New Deal

A/V Booth: The Big Question After the VP Tussle

Reports: You’re No Harry Truman, Governor

Ear to the Ground: Politico: Biden Will Go Soft on Palin

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’: McCain Courts the Reptile Vote

Reports: From Fired U.S. Attorneys to Sarah Palin

Reports: McCain Is Guilty Enough

A/V Booth: Zakaria Calls Palin ‘Utterly Unqualified’ for VP Post

Ear to the Ground: CBS Has More Palin Gold in the Vault

Reports: McCain’s Debate Implosion Bodes Ill for His Campaign

Cartoons: Debate Rules

Cartoons: Country First

A/V Booth: Obama and McCain Face Off in First Presidential Debate

Reports: A Calm Obama Weathers a Storm of Sarcasm

Ear to the Ground: McCain Blinks, Claims Debate Victory

Reports: How McCain’s Grandstanding Sidelined the Bailout Deal

Reports: McCain Has a Meltdown of His Own

Reports: The Debate Camera’s Deep Vision

Ear to the Ground: Now McCain Wants to Cancel the VP Debate

Ear to the Ground: McCain Wants to Cancel First Debate

Reports: Fiddling While Wall Street Burns

Reports: A Campaign Without Ideas

Reports: Keeping Palin Under Wraps

Reports: Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention

A/V Booth: Palin the Debater

Cartoons: Biden Suits Up

Reports: The Missing Debate

Reports: A Common-Sense Approach to Social Security

Reports: Refighting the Vietnam War

Reports: The Death of Reaganomics

Reports: Terror Goes a Lot Further With Good Advertising

Arts and Culture: Williams to Step In for Russert on ‘Meet the Press’

Reports: An Anti-Clinton for VP

Reports: The Case for Biden

Reports: Pacifying Dr. King

Reports: Mission Impossible

Reports: Belittling the Campaign

Ear to the Ground: Obama and the Other Clinton

Reports: Matthews vs. McNulty

Reports: The Two Obamas

Cartoons: The Candidates Agree

Reports: ABC’s Philadelphia Story: Punditry Over Politics

Cartoons: True Test of Leadership

Ear to the Ground: Philly Debate Maligned by Pro-Obama Media?

Reports: Substance for Those Who Were Patient

Ear to the Ground: ABC’s ‘Despicable’ Debate

A/V Booth: ‘Condi Must Go’

Reports: Just a Regular Gal

Reports: Bush’s Parallel Universe

Reports: Road to Nowhere

Reports: A Torture Debate Among Healers

Reports: Torture’s Poet Laureate

Ear to the Ground: Up for Debate

Reports: Conservatives Beware

Ear to the Ground: Death by a Thousand Memos

Reports: Gore Vidal Speaks Seriously Ill of the Dead

Ear to the Ground: Congress Holds Sensory-Deprived Session

Cartoons: Up for a Debate

Ear to the Ground: Top Commander for Mideast Resigns

Reports: Hope in the Time of NAFTA

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Backtracks on Tax Returns

Ear to the Ground: Twenty Debates Later

A/V Booth: Clinton Takes On Obama Photo Question

Ear to the Ground: Huckabee Yells Out for a Debate, but the Press Goes Deaf

A/V Booth: Clinton Caught Xeroxing

Reports: A ‘Challenge’ Worth Challenging

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Prepares for Fox News Debate

A/V Booth: Down to the Fundamentals

Reports: The McCain Divide

Reports: Step Back, Mr. Clinton

A/V Booth: Republicans Spar Over the War

A/V Booth: GOP Presidential Hopefuls Debate in Florida

Reports: Message From Third Place

Reports: That Dismal Democratic Debate

Ear to the Ground: Show Me the Money

A/V Booth: Fireworks in South Carolina

Reports: Not All Is Debated in Love and War

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