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By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch —
Why take a look at the history of gay rights in the context of the climate struggle? Because the hardest part of the Keystone pipeline fight has been figuring out what to do about the Democrats.
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
The slow bulldozing of government protections has allowed lawmakers to re-examine programs and policies that haven’t been touched for decades.
Posted on Apr 8, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 29, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Nate Silver makes a prediction about gay marriage and North Dakota sticks it to women by enacting the nation’s strictest abortion law.
Posted on Mar 26, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Castro is a politician in not too much of a hurry. This does not mean the 38-year-old mayor of San Antonio lacks ambition.
Posted on Mar 24, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Shame on Harry Reid for killing any prospect of an assault weapons ban. I understand why he did it, but that doesn’t make it right.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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Nation writer Jeremy Scahill ripped into Republicans and Democrats on the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, claiming that both parties are to blame for the war during a recent appearance on MSNBC.
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Libertarians, whom the Republican National Committee has largely shut out, assumed a more energetic role at CPAC this year, using the failed election as evidence that the GOP should return to their philosophy’s ideals.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Mar 15, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a Reuters editor is indicted on suspicion of aiding hackers and Barack Obama wants Democratic lawmakers to know he’s not Dick Cheney.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Sarah Palin announces her next book project and Iran mulls a lawsuit against Hollywood.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Just when our politics seemed destined to freeze into a brain-dead brand of partisanship, party lines started cracking up.
Posted on Mar 11, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Mar 11, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 11, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 9, 2013
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There are, believe it or not, grounds for hoping that the sequester, stupid as it is, might open the way to ending our nation’s budget stalemate.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — You could say that a filibuster occurs when a senator drones on and on. The problem with the U.S. Senate was that there were too few senators speaking about drones this week.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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On his program Monday night, Jon Stewart said that the sequester, which took effect Friday, was like an “autoerotic asphyxiation” for Congress.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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Neon Tommy
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If President Obama follows the example of Gov. Jerry Brown in California, he can use devastating budget cuts to deal conservatives a crushing blow, argues David Sirota.
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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Office of the Speaker of the House/Bryant Avondoglio
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Ever since they took control of the House of Representatives in 2011, Republicans have made journeys to the fiscal brink as commonplace as summertime visits to the beach or the ballpark.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Chris Christie being omitted from a major conservative event and Stephen Colbert breaks character to make his first political endorsement.
Posted on Feb 26, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including one lawmaker’s efforts to ensure corporations can vote and Michelle Obama teams up with Jimmy Fallon for the “Evolution of Mom’s Dancing.”
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — A not-so-small miracle is unfolding before our eyes. After nearly two decades in which established opinion insisted that it would never again be possible to pass sensible regulations of firearms, the unthinkable is on the verge of happening.
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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By David Sirota — Despite its success in recent elections, and despite the image of unity it projects, the Democratic Party is in the throes of an epic identity crisis pitting its corporate money against its stated principles.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — The standoff over the package of budget cuts known as “the sequester” is the dumbest, most self-defeating fight between President Obama and Republicans in Congress since ... let’s see, since the last dumb, self-defeating fight less than two months ago.
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — If I were a Republican activist, I think I would give up reading political journalism for a while. I might even turn to reading history, say the history of whatever happened to the Whig Party.
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The deficit that should concern us most right now has to do with time, not money. Money can be recouped. Time just disappears.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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On Friday, journalist and historian Jon Meacham said on HBO’s “Real Time” that President Obama should, like FDR and Ronald Reagan, ignore Congress and campaign directly to the American people. It appears that is what Obama intends to do.
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — In his bid to be remembered as a transformational leader, President Obama is following the playbook of an ideological opposite, Margaret Thatcher. First you win the argument, she used to say, then you win the vote.
Posted on Feb 15, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — It is bizarre that Chuck Hagel, a war hero with a long record of sensible views on the deployment of military power, gets blocked as the president’s nominee to run the Pentagon, while Jack Lew, steeped in Wall Street greed, sails through as Treasury secretary.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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The only reason President Obama is interested in health care reform is to please big business; Aaron Swartz memorials have become the setting of discussions about transforming the U.S. justice system; meanwhile, Obama’s pick for secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew, is no stranger to the Cayman Islands. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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