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Reports: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Campaign 2012

Reports: The GOP’s Anti-Gingrich Campaign

Reports: Politics as Entertainment

Ear to the Ground: Hillary Clinton Says She Won’t Re-Up as Secretary of State

Ear to the Ground: Everyone’s a Critic, Including Fidel Castro

Reports: Ron Paul and Our Selective Definition of Bigotry

Reports: Tax Day: Will Romney Make April Fools of Republicans?

Reports: So Much for a Populist GOP

Reports: A Fair Share of Scrutiny

Reports: Stuck in the Bloody Primaries

Reports: Hawk in a Clown-Car Field

Reports: Christopher Hitchens: Reason in Revolt

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’: Trump Dumps Debate

A/V Booth: Your Post-GOP Debate Breakdown, Featuring Al Gore

Reports: Republican Reality Show Gets Weirder and Weirder

Reports: Trump? The Republican Primary Is Now Officially a Gong Show

Reports: Cheering for the Chinese

Reports: Realism and Compassion: Unacceptable in Today’s GOP

Reports: The True Conservative Scandal

Reports: Mindless—but Always Talking Loud

Reports: The Nonsense Debate

Ear to the Ground: Perry: ‘This Ain’t a Day for Quitting Nothing’

A/V Booth: Rick Perry Will Get Rid of Government ... as Soon as He Remembers Which Part

Cartoons: Equal Time

Reports: Perry, Cain and Flat Earth Government

Reports: What Romney’s Religion Reveals About His Politics

Reports: No Hope for the Jobless if a Republican Wins

Reports: At a Loss for a World View

Reports: Nice Debates, Guys, but You’re in Trouble

Reports: Let Them Eat Keller

Ear to the Ground: A Very GOP Debate Recap

Cartoons: Drinking Helps

Reports: Rick Santorum’s Family Provocation

Reports: Flavor of the Week

Reports: The Rise of the Reverse Houdinis

Cartoons: Two and a Half Republicans

Reports: Nothing but Dogs in This Hunt

Reports: Preserving Life (Unless It’s Uninsured)

Reports: Where Are the Compassionate Conservatives?

Ear to the Ground: Bachmann Politicizes Cervical Cancer

Reports: Troy Davis and the Politics of Death

Cartoons: Ponzi

Reports: How Much Has Obama Learned About Republicans?

Reports: Flaming Hypocrisy

Ear to the Ground: Activist Rejects Indian PM’s Plea to End His Fast

Ear to the Ground: The Late Laughing Liberal Molly Ivins on Rick Perry

Reports: Sam Harris Responds to Chris Hedges’ ‘Fundamentalism Kills’ Column

Reports: Fundamentalism Kills

Reports: Obama Is Wrong on War Powers

Reports: Watch Your Back, Barack

Reports: Seven Republican Dwarfs

Reports: New Republican Front-Runner: Herman Cain

Reports: The Government: Credit Where Credit Is Due

Reports: Happy Mother’s Day: Now Let’s Rob You of a Key Right

Reports: Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System

Reports: Why We Loved David Broder

Reports: Can Obama Be Luke Skywalker?

Reports: Without Obama, We Lose So Much More Than an Election

Reports: Palin’s Egocentric Umbrage

Reports: Turning the Tables on Health Care

Reports: Celebrating the New GOP Majority

Reports: Democracy: Made in China

Reports: Happy as a Hangman

Reports: The Thanksgiving Wars? No Thanks

Reports: Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion

Reports: The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum

Reports: Do Only Conservative Victories Count?

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

Reports: Rich Media, Poor Democracy

Reports: And Now for the Next Battle

Reports: The World Is Safer Without a Republican House

Reports: The Mondo-Bizarro Campaign

Reports: War Should Be an Election Issue

Reports: Annoyer in Chief

Reports: The World Liberal Opportunists Made

A/V Booth: Christine O’Donnell’s Staggering Ignorance

Reports: Don’t Man Up, Grow Up

Reports: Looney, and That’s No Debate

Reports: ‘Crazy Carl’ and the Limits of Anger

A/V Booth: Brown, Whitman Wrangle Over ‘Whore’ Zinger

Reports: How Democracy Dies: Lessons From a Master

A/V Booth: California Debate Heats Up Over Immigration

Ear to the Ground: Florida Church Determined to Burn Qurans Despite Warnings

Ear to the Ground: Abe Lincoln’s Bromance

Ear to the Ground: Turns Out Obama’s Mosque Speech Wasn’t That Risky

Reports: Mosque-Issippi Burning

Reports: Bickering Over Judicial Nominations

Reports: Illegal Immigration Isn’t the Only Thing Infuriating Arizona Residents

Reports: The Politics of Stupidity Strike Again

Reports: The End of the Fox News Era?

Reports: The Grinches Who Stole Summer

Reports: Deficit Doves

Reports: Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick

Reports: Time Out for Recess Appointments

Reports: Pitfalls of Soaking the Rich

Ear to the Ground: Crisis of Capitalism

Reports: Fiddling While the Economy Burns

Reports: Whose Supreme Court Is It?

Reports: After 41 Years, a Belated Victory for Butter

Reports: A ‘Prophecy’ Worth Watching

Reports: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Framing the Narrative

Reports: A Warning From Noam Chomsky on the Threat of Elites

Ear to the Ground: ‘Australia Loses Freedom Points’ Edition

Ear to the Ground: Jerusalem Jews Tell Elie Wiesel to Get Real

Reports: After Religion Fizzles, We’re Stuck With Nietzsche

Reports: What Britain Taught Us About Hard Times and the Left

Reports: Tory Lessons for Republicans

A/V Booth: British Leaders Just Want to Party

Reports: Live Chat: Robert Scheer on the Goldman Hearings

Reports: How Wall Street Creates Socialists

Reports: The Republican to See Suddenly Won’t Deal

Reports: Clinton’s Contrition

Reports: 4.5 Steps to Building a Better Filibuster

Reports: Let’s Have a Real Debate About the Court

Reports: Barack Obama, Meet Sisyphus

A/V Booth: Debate: Hamas vs. Fatah

Reports: Sunny Charlie Crist’s Rain Cloud

Reports: Jeremy Scahill Says ‘We’re at a Ground Zero Moment to Save Real Journalism’

Reports: Take Two Doses of Caution and Call Me in 2014

Reports: Will True Conservatives Stand Up?

Reports: Tea Party Bigotry Can’t Stop History

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Health Care Reform

Reports: Good Debt, Bad Debt

A/V Booth: Rep. Kennedy Is Mad as Hell

Reports: Kucinich: ‘Heads They Win, Tails We Lose’ (Update: Transcript)

Truthdig Podcast: Kucinich: ‘Heads They Win, Tails We Lose’

Reports: The Politics of Earthquakes

Ear to the Ground: Starbucks in Gun Activist Crossfire

Reports: Ralph Nader Was Right About Barack Obama

Reports: Can’t We All Just Get Along? No

Reports: Behind the Tea Party Facade, Just Another Bush-League Republican

Reports: Dealing With the Democrats

Reports: Health Care: Pass It or Perish

Reports: The Elephant at the Health Care Summit

Reports: Hey, Dummy: Climate Change Is Real

Reports: Why the Democrats Are Losing

Reports: What Bayh’s Departure Says About the Senate

Reports: Budget Lies Aren’t Helping the Deficit

Reports: Booze Pirates Fleece Puerto Rico With the Help of Congress

Reports: Rotten Minds, Shriveled Hearts and Human Souls

Reports: The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News

Reports: Outsider in Chief

Reports: In Defense of the Filibuster

Reports: California’s Folly — Prop. 13

Reports: Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction

Ear to the Ground: Life After Massachusetts Edition

Reports: The Bay State Lesson

Reports: The End of Wall Street Liberalism

Reports: Obama’s Alternate Universe

Reports: Partisan Hysteria Hypes (and Helps) Al-Qaida

Reports: Sick With Terror

Reports: Decades From Hell: One Down, One to Go

Reports: Winning Ugly

Reports: Democrats Need More Pelosi, Less Reid

Reports: The Democrats Blinked

Ear to the Ground: Howard Dean: Kill the Health Care Bill

Reports: In Need of a Watchdog on Health Spending

Reports: Fair and Balanced (and Phony) Science

Reports: The ‘Human’ Factor Missing in Copenhagen

Reports: Making Gun Safety (Politically) Safe

Ear to the Ground: Senate Debate to Focus on Abortion

Reports: The Health Care Race to Christmas

Reports: Fighting Extremism With Civility

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

Reports: Delay Worked for Kennedy

Ear to the Ground: Lieberman Won’t Budge on Health Care

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

Reports: Testing Next Year’s Lies Today

Reports: Where Does the Caving End?

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

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