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Ear to the Ground: Frightening Charts From the Senate Inequality Hearing

Reports: Elections Are for Suckers

Reports: Clint, Rick and the Limits of Pessimism

Reports: Romney Hasn’t Won Yet

Reports: How Romney Won, and Lost

Cartoons: Political Leap Year

Reports: Politics as Entertainment

Cartoons: Two-Party System

Reports: America Does Not Share South Carolina’s Fondness for Gingrich

Reports: Election Will Decide Which New Wars Will Be Waged

Reports: The Dream That Came True

Reports: There’s Hope for Republicans Yet

Reports: Stuck in the Bloody Primaries

Cartoons: Global Politics

Reports: America’s 5 Political Parties

Cartoons: On to New Hampshire

Cartoons: Mitt Wins

Cartoons: Bye Bye Bachmann

Reports: Arms Dealer Obama Will Win by Default

Reports: Santorum, Huntsman and the Future of Conservatism

Reports: Did Reagan Raise Taxes? Let GOP Candidates Answer

Reports: Ron Paul’s Popularity a Sign of a War-Weary America

Cartoons: Iowa and USA Voters

Reports: Extravagant Hopes of 2008 Haunt Obama in 2012

Reports: Could Ron Paul Be the Next Ralph Nader?

Reports: A Brainpower Revolution

Reports: History Tells Us Not to Dismiss a Democratic Challenge to Obama

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

Cartoons: Speech at Fort Bragg

Ear to the Ground: The Attorney General Has a Great Idea

Ear to the Ground: America the Battlefield

Reports: Obama’s New Square Deal

Reports: Giving Politicians a Good Name

Reports: Will Moderates Defeat Moderation?

Reports: Obama’s Catholic Friends and Enemies

Reports: ‘Super Committee’ Fails to Overcome Republican Dogma

Reports: Still Occupied

Cartoons: Obama Turkey Pardon

Reports: The Easiest Way to Cut the Deficit

Reports: New ‘Mature’ Newt Is Just Same Old Gingrich

Reports: The GOP’s Message Problem

A/V Booth: Robert Reich and Robert Scheer at Occupy L.A. Teach-In

Reports: The Right Wing’s 2011 Shellacking

Reports: The War Against the Poor

Reports: What Romney’s Religion Reveals About His Politics

Cartoons: Err Obamacare

Cartoons: Spanking the Monkey

Reports: The Occupy Windfall

Reports: A Movement Too Big to Fail

Reports: Rick Santorum’s Family Provocation

Reports: If a Republican Were President

Reports: A New Bush Era or a Push Era?

Ear to the Ground: Elizabeth Warren Bags $3 Million

Arts and Culture: Missing From ‘March’

Reports: Refuting Straw Liberals

Cartoons: Bernanke’s Railroad

Ear to the Ground: Wall Street Occupiers Make Gains

Reports: The Week Politics Changed

Ear to the Ground: Senate Democrats Propose the Rich Pay for Jobs Bill

Reports: Can the Left Stage a Tea Party?

Reports: The Men We Trusted to Lead Us

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

Ear to the Ground: House Rejects Government Funding Bill

Reports: America the Passive

Reports: The Racial Divide Is There and Waiting

Reports: Unhappy Democrats Threaten Obama Jobs Bill

Ear to the Ground: Boehner Bad-Mouths Any Talk of Tax Hikes

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

Reports: GOP Tunnel Vision

Reports: How Much Has Obama Learned About Republicans?

Reports: Does Karl Rove Know Something We Don’t?

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

Reports: The Last Labor Day?

Reports: Obama and Republicans: Champions of Smog

Reports: Republicans Put Wars Ahead of People

Reports: Obama’s Paradox Problem

Reports: The Election March of the Trolls

Reports: Deep in the Heart of Fantasyland

Reports: Perry’s Big Mouth Is Giving Republicans Headaches

Reports: How Obama Can Save His Presidency

Reports: What Obama Should Learn From Wisconsin

Ear to the Ground: Two Wisconsin Democrats Make It Through Recall

Reports: Hello, Washington? Is Anyone Listening?

Reports: Wisconsin: Conservatives Win, Liberals Gain

Reports: Another Bailout Joins the Goofball Economy

Ear to the Ground: Wisconsin Republicans Win Recall Battle, 4-2

Reports: A Downgrade’s GOP Fingerprints

Reports: Who Wants to Go Back to the ’50s?

Reports: The Recovery Is Dead, Long Live the Recovery

Reports: War, Debt and the President

Ear to the Ground: House Democrats Rescue GOP to Pass Debt Compromise

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)

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

Reports: Power of the Big Idea

Reports: The Money Melodrama in Washington

A/V Booth: Bernie Sanders, a Violin and the Disappearing Middle Class

Reports: The Limits of Compromise

Ear to the Ground: Senate Democrats Angry Over Obama ‘Sellout’

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

Ear to the Ground: An Investment Manager Dishes on the Richest

Reports: Sorry Elizabeth, Wall Street Said No

Ear to the Ground: Dan Savage Calls Obama’s DOMA Announcement ‘Very Heartening’

Cartoons: Default Answer

Reports: Obama Can’t Celebrate Yet

Reports: Robin Hood in Reverse

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

Reports: Something to Squawk About

Reports: Obama’s Raw Deal?

Reports: Making a Progressive Case

Reports: Washington Dysfunction: A Scorecard

Reports: Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for President

A/V Booth: What California’s Devastating Budget Says About Democrats

Ear to the Ground: California Passes $86 Billion Budget Without New Taxes

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: Obama and the Agony of Prudence

Reports: Huntsman: Yes, He Might

Reports: Commencement Day for a Lost Generation

Reports: This Hero Didn’t Stand a Chance

Reports: Michele Bachmann Makes Dubya Look Good

Reports: Here We Go Again: Reform in California

Reports: Front and (Too) Center

Reports: Gridlocking the Lives of the Jobless

Reports: Declare Victory—and Leave

Reports: The Party of Righteous Indignation

Ear to the Ground: Where Are They Now: Corporate Democrat Edition

Reports: The Canary in the GOP Coal Mine

Reports: The Brief on Rep. Weiner

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

Reports: The Tea Party Is Yesterday’s News

Ear to the Ground: Wisconsin Is Ready for a Feingold Comeback

Reports: A Medicare Moment for the GOP

Reports: The Gingrich Style

Reports: Will Symbols Trump Logic?

Reports: One Lawman With the Guts to Go After Wall Street

Reports: Tough Enough

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Abandon the Anti-War Movement

Cartoons: Where Is the Exit?

Cartoons: Saving Medicare

Cartoons: Step by Step Deficit Solution

Reports: Democrats Can Win the Budget Debate

Reports: At Last: A President, Not a Ref

Reports: The End of Shutdowns

Reports: Ryan’s Plan Neither Serious nor Courageous

Reports: Trumped by Political Failure

Reports: The Right’s War on Moderation

Reports: Why Not Bachmann?

Reports: The End of Progressive Government?

Reports: Why the Reckless Republicans Win

Reports: The Surprising New Class Politics

Cartoons: Obamacare Makes a Wish

Reports: Why the GOP Is Obsessed With ‘Leadership’

Reports: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand

Reports: What Wisconsin Can Teach Washington

Reports: The GOP’s Ingenious Madman Strategy

Reports: When Cuts Don’t Cut It

Reports: Job Protection, 2012 Style

Reports: GOP Tactic: Intramural Class Warfare

Reports: Why the Wisconsin Fight Matters

Reports: Two Public Pay Standards, One Statement of Values

Reports: Starving Wisconsin’s Unions

Reports: The Tea Party Is Winning

Ear to the Ground: No Compromise in Wisconsin

Ear to the Ground: Protests Continue in Wisconsin

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

Reports: Obama and the Failure of the Deficit Hawks

Reports: The Leadership Vacuum

Reports: Can Obama Be Luke Skywalker?

Reports: Judging Obama’s Relaunch

Reports: Reagan’s Democrats

Reports: The Last Reagan Campaign: Legacy

Reports: Obama to Resort to Communicating With Mubarak in Caps

Reports: Governor Laser Beam

Reports: Saad’s Revolution

Reports: Truthdiggers of the Week: The Egyptian Protesters

Reports: All Talk, No Action on Deficit

Reports: Cow Most Sacred: Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable

Ear to the Ground: Financial Crisis Panel Names Names

Reports: Obama Changes the Narrative

Reports: Barack Obama: Paradoxical Whig

Reports: Where Liberals Go to Feel Good

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

Reports: Is America Too Corrupt to Keep Up?

Reports: It’s Repeal That’s Ailing

Cartoons: Lieberman’s Retirement Party

Reports: Fudging the Facts on Health Care and Deficits

Ear to the Ground: House Huffs, Puffs, Blows Health Care Down

Reports: What It Was Like to Be John F. Kennedy

Reports: Tucson, Juarez and an Assault Weapons Ban

Reports: The Cuts Are Coming

Reports: How Many Bullets Do You Need?

Reports: A Tale of Two Sheriffs

Reports: Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich

Reports: Gabrielle Giffords: Tragic Prophet

Reports: Turning the Tables on Health Care

Reports: Washington Loves a Paradox

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