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Ear to the Ground: Put Your Money Where Your Jobs Aren’t

Cartoons: The Ratio

Reports: Obama’s Goldilocks Strategy

Cartoons: Thanks but No Thanks

Reports: Understanding Our Hollow ‘Centrists’

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

Reports: Obama Risks Losing His Judicial Prize

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

Reports: Obama’s Third Way in Afghanistan

Cartoons: Showdown

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: Testing Next Year’s Lies Today

Reports: Where Does the Caving End?

Reports: Don’t Let Abortion Destroy Health Care Reform

Reports: When Voters Disrupt the Tea Party

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Health Care Bill

Reports: Republicans vs. the Palinites

Reports: The GOP’s Toxic Tea Party

Reports: Not Right Wing but Still Angry

Ear to the Ground: Dems Win N.Y. Consolation Prize

Reports: 2009 Elections Don’t Foretell a Thing

Ear to the Ground: Republican Wins in New Jersey, Too

Reports: A Record You Can Believe In

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

Reports: The Battle to Define the New Health Care System

Reports: TARP on Steroids

Reports: Hug Obama, Find the Moderates

Reports: The Party of Choice

Ear to the Ground: House Dems Water Down Public Option

Ear to the Ground: Blue Dog Fundraising Dries Up

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

Reports: War Is a Hate Crime

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Ruin the Public Option for Everyone Else, Arkansas

Reports: GOP Civil War Flares in New York

Ear to the Ground: Attn. Senate: Most Americans Want a Public Option

Reports: Obama Can’t Lose the Young

Reports: When Did Olympia Snowe Become Queen of America?

Ear to the Ground: Poll Puts Clinton Over Obama

Reports: Bribe, Vote, Repeat

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

Ear to the Ground: Redefining Hate

Reports: Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan

Reports: Rangel’s Portrait of Corruption

Ear to the Ground: German Socialists Make Do Without Socialized Medicine

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

Reports: Stimulation Without the S-Word

Reports: Why Obama Must Spend More

Ear to the Ground: How Fox News Rigs Polls

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

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Pumps Up Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: Obama Pressures Senate on Public Option

Reports: A Question of Health—and Equality

Reports: The Public Option Only Looks Dead

Reports: Massachusetts Looks for Life After Teddy

Reports: Reflections on the ‘Godfather’ of Neoconservatism

Reports: Let Blue Dogs Face the Music

Ear to the Ground: Is Byrd’s Health a Factor for Health Reform?

Ear to the Ground: Kennedy’s Seat Is Temporarily Filled

Reports: Health Reform Money Is Aimed at Red States

Reports: Talk of Bipartisanship Is Now Thoroughly Warped

Reports: Selective Deficit Disorder

Reports: Jimmy Carter Is Right

Ear to the Ground: Massachusetts Close to Replacing Kennedy With a Temp

Reports: Testing the Obama Effect

Reports: All U.S. Presidents Need a War to Call Their Own—and Obama Has His

Ear to the Ground: Bill Clinton Picks a Horse in Cali Governor Race

Reports: Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

Cartoons: Appease and Carrots

Reports: Stop Begging Obama and Get Mad

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

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Sees Little Support for Troop Deployments

Reports: A Speech Even Insurance Companies Could Love

Reports: A Perfect Storm of Idiocy

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

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Take Blue Dog’s Word for It: It’s Worthless

Reports: Stuck in the Middle

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

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

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

Reports: Why We Must Stay in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Democratic Fundraiser Arrested in $74 Million Fraud

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

Reports: Progressives Are the Key to Reform

Reports: Missing: Democrats’ Passion

Reports: Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racism

Truthdig Podcast: Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racism

Reports: Obama’s Enforcer: Not Really Tough Enough

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

Reports: The Real Death Panels

Reports: Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama

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

Reports: The Nut Job as Political Force

Reports: Can Republicans Escape Their Extremists?

Arts and Culture: Frederic Raphael on Socrates

Reports: Health Care Tyranny by 13 Obstructionists

Reports: A Time, Again, for Bill Clinton

Reports: The Marvel That Is Medicare

Ear to the Ground: Blue Dogs Get Their Way, Progressives See Red

A/V Booth: Howard Dean Talks Health Care

Reports: Less Than Perfect Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: Public Option Headed for Senate Death

Cartoons: Slow Down

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: Blue Dogs: The Special Interest Pets

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

Ear to the Ground: The Bush Baby Boom

Ear to the Ground: California Cuts Budget Deal

Reports: Obama’s Aces in the Hole

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Gut Union Bill

Reports: Stains From the Bush Era Won’t Fade

Reports: Pelosi’s Toothless ‘Commission’

Ear to the Ground: California Sees Red

Ear to the Ground: House Plan Taxes the Rich to Insure the Poor

Reports: White Men Can’t Trump

A/V Booth: Health Care, Unions and the State of the U.S.

Ear to the Ground: So Long, Roland Burris?

Ear to the Ground: CIA ‘Lied’ to Congress

Reports: The Unemployed Will Roar

Reports: Party of Franken, Party of Palin

Ear to the Ground: Progressives Flex Health Care Muscle

Ear to the Ground: Public Option in Critical Condition

Reports: Obama’s Long, Hard Summer

Reports: The Age of Paine

Reports: Warming Up a New Politics?

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Won’t Budge as California Nears Collapse

Ear to the Ground: Dems Make Franken a Player

Reports: Obama and the Stone Tablets

Reports: The Sickening Influence of Campaign Contributions

Reports: Foreclosure Fiasco

Ear to the Ground: California Attacks Budget Crisis With Make-Believe

Reports: Obama’s Iran Dilemma

A/V Booth: Bill Maher: ‘Democrats Are the New Republicans’

Ear to the Ground: Health Care Fail

Reports: The AMA’s Unhealthy Obsession

Reports: The Bipartisanship of Fools

Reports: Why Patch-and-Fill Won’t Do

Reports: Guns and the Link We Won’t Admit

Reports: Obama and the Politics of Short Memories

Ear to the Ground: Gays Losing Patience With Team Obama

Cartoons: The Lesser of Two Spuds

Reports: All Politics, and Change, Is Still Local

Reports: The Lone Wolves Among Us

Reports: Why So Scared of a Public Plan?

Cartoons: Vern

Reports: Prop. 8 and the Misery of the Law

Reports: Rush and Newt Are Winning

Reports: Reagan Didn’t Do It

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Aren’t Buying What Schwarzenegger’s Cutting

Reports: Health Care Reform’s Pulse Is Fading

Reports: America’s Changing Moral Universe

Reports: Obama and the Limits of Mastery

Reports: Packing Heat in the Parks

Reports: Obama Can’t Duck the Tough Ones

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Finds Some Backing

Reports: The End of the Middle Class as We Know It

Reports: Sen. Arlen Specter on Switching

Ear to the Ground: Sebelius at Last

Reports: Specter Comes Full Circle

Ear to the Ground: Senate Shake-Up: Specter Goes Blue

Reports: News Flash: Populism Is Popular

Reports: Stop Thinking About Yesterday’s Health Care Debate

Ear to the Ground: Report: Rep. Harman Mixed Up With AIPAC, Espionage and Alberto Gonzales

Reports: Who Will Face Down the Gun Lobby?

Reports: The Obama Doctrine

Reports: Armey’s Tea Party Army

Reports: Pelosi’s Balancing Act

Reports: Crazy Like a Fox?

Reports: Resist or Become Serfs

Reports: Health Care Reform at Last

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Mega-Budget ’09

Reports: Where’s the Outrage Over Workers Getting the Shaft?

Reports: Change You Can Translate

Reports: Daring to Utter the T Word

Reports: Kill AIG Bonuses With a Tax? It’s a Lousy Idea

Arts and Culture: Jacob Heilbrunn on Alger Hiss

Reports: It’s Time to Put the Clamps on Tobacco

Reports: A Big Moment for Volunteerism

Reports: From Frozen Minds, a ‘Spending Freeze’

Reports: For Competition Before They Were Against It

Ear to the Ground: Obama on the Defensive as Stock Rebound Continues

Reports: A Changing Community Now Wants Softer U.S. Policy on Cuba

Reports: Pelosi Has Reason to Smile

Reports: Rushing Toward Irrelevance

Reports: It’s Obama’s War Now

Reports: Robin-Hood Republicanism?

Reports: Bill Redux?

Reports: The President’s Address to Congress

Reports: ‘Entitlements’ Take a Bum Rap

Reports: A Road-Trip Presidency

Ear to the Ground: Some Governors May Tell Obama to Stuff It

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