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Reports: Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless

Cartoons: Romney Valentine

Reports: Elections Are for Suckers

Ear to the Ground: Rick Santorum’s Big Night

Ear to the Ground: Obama Gets Ready to Defend Birth Control Policy

Cartoons: Romney Cares About the Middle Class

Ear to the Ground: Egypt Gives an Inch on Election Date

Ear to the Ground: Citizen Suspect: We’re All Under Attack in the WikiLeaks Case

Reports: Romney’s 1 Percent Nation Under God

Cartoons: Political Leap Year

Ear to the Ground: Romney Rights the Ship in Florida

Ear to the Ground: Gingrich a Tough Sell Among Florida Women

Ear to the Ground: Newt Gingrich, Shameless Demagogue

Reports: An Argument Obama Can Win

Cartoons: State of the Union

Reports: Obama’s Faux Populism Sounds Like Bill Clinton

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

Ear to the Ground: Geithner Eyes the Exit

Ear to the Ground: Obama Aims State of the Union Address at the Working Class

Reports: Obama: No Retreat, No Surrender

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

Reports: Thank You for Standing Up

Cartoons: Pipeline Politics

Cartoons: Hit in the Face

Reports: What Newt Learned From Nixon

Ear to the Ground: Newt Stomps Romney to Win South Carolina

Cartoons: Mitt Worldview

Reports: Ron Paul and Our Selective Definition of Bigotry

Reports: California and the Rapture-Ready Candidacy of Newt Gingrich

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Raising Cane Against the ‘Morality Police’

Reports: Election Will Decide Which New Wars Will Be Waged

Reports: The Dream That Came True

Truthdig Podcast: The Gayest Cities in America

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Reports: There’s Hope for Republicans Yet

Ear to the Ground: Romney and Huntsman Split New Hampshire’s Tiniest Primary

Cartoons: I Voted

A/V Booth: Did Mitt Romney Really Say He Likes Firing People?

Reports: Stuck in the Bloody Primaries

Ear to the Ground: Musharraf Hopes for a Pakistan Comeback

Reports: Hawk in a Clown-Car Field

Cartoons: Global Politics

Cartoons: Romney Hair

Reports: Arms Dealer Obama Will Win by Default

Reports: Two Jerks

Reports: Republicans Divided, Citizens United

Cartoons: Iowa and USA Voters

Reports: The Puzzling Presidential Candidacy of Mikhail Prokhorov

Ear to the Ground: Fiji Military Says It Will Lift Martial Law

Reports: Extravagant Hopes of 2008 Haunt Obama in 2012

Ear to the Ground: Occupy Targets Obama

Reports: If You Can’t Beat Them, Enjoin Them (From Voting)

Reports: A Brainpower Revolution

Reports: Obama: The Conservative in 2012

Cartoons: Newt Nude

Cartoons: Ron Paul Leads in Iowa Polls

Reports: The Bigots and Billionaires in Ron Paul’s Orbit

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: The Worst So Far

Reports: Newt and the Revenge of the Base

Cartoons: Newt Still Ahead

Cartoons: Mud Wrestling

Reports: Bernie Sanders Explains Why Congress Fears Citizens United

Cartoons: Go Away Trump

Cartoons: Speech at Fort Bragg

Reports: A Huntsman Moment?

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

Ear to the Ground: America the Battlefield

Cartoons: The Hole Truth

Reports: Mass Protests Are Not a Threat to Putin … Yet

Reports: Obama Abroad: Democratic Realism

Cartoons: Madame Pelosi

Reports: War With Iran? School Prayer? Just More Republican Campaign Promises

Reports: Republican Reality Show Gets Weirder and Weirder

Reports: Obama’s New Square Deal

Ear to the Ground: More Protests Lead to Mass Arrests in Moscow

Cartoons: Newt Tidings

Cartoons: Nott Romney

Ear to the Ground: Putin’s Party Takes a Hit at the Polls

Cartoons: Newt and Mitt Hit the Circuit

Cartoons: Cain’s Toast

Cartoons: Naughty Herman Cain

Cartoons: Mitt Romney

Reports: Giving Politicians a Good Name

Ear to the Ground: Egyptian Election Goes Forward Despite Setbacks

Cartoons: Post Thanksgiving Blues

Ear to the Ground: Egyptian Military Leaders: Sorry, but We’re Not Going Anywhere

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Return of the Revolution

Ear to the Ground: Egypt’s Military Council Gives an Inch

Reports: The Republicans Aren’t Funny, They’re Scary

Cartoons: GOP Candidates

Ear to the Ground: America Is Special, Vote for Me

Ear to the Ground: Egyptians Take On Military Council in New Protest

Reports: The GOP’s Message Problem

Ear to the Ground: Cain Tops Poll With Romney, Gingrich Close Behind

Reports: The Right Wing’s 2011 Shellacking

Ear to the Ground: America Edges Leftward in Elections

A/V Booth: Are the Koch Brothers Messing With Your Voting Rights?

Cartoons: Cain Gropes

Reports: The War Against the Poor

Ear to the Ground: Obama the Underdog

Cartoons: Herman Cain Explains

Cartoons: GOP Jobs Plan

Cartoons: Mitt Harasses

Cartoons: Vote Cain

Reports: One Nation, Gone Awry

Reports: Mitt Romney’s Big Bad Ideas for the Middle East

Reports: How the Rich Subverted the Legal System

A/V Booth: This Herman Cain Ad Cannot Be Real, but It Is

Ear to the Ground: The Argentine Model

Reports: At a Loss for a World View

Cartoons: Cain and the Kochs

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

Reports: Lincoln’s Lessons for Obama

Reports: Turkish Kurds Surrounded by War and Promises

Cartoons: Drinking Helps

Reports: The Tax Hikes That Republicans Love

Reports: The Rise of the Reverse Houdinis

Reports: If a Republican Were President

Ear to the Ground: Schumer Sees Democrats Hanging On to Senate

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: Citizen Cain

Reports: The Week Politics Changed

Reports: Can the Left Stage a Tea Party?

Reports: Afghanistan Is Obama’s Gordian Knot

Reports: Nothing but Dogs in This Hunt

Ear to the Ground: Saudi Arabia’s Radical King Gives Women the Right to Vote

Reports: Two Heads of One Political Monster

Reports: The Racial Divide Is There and Waiting

Reports: Lost Decade … Lost Generation?

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

Reports: GOP Tunnel Vision

Ear to the Ground: North Carolina Considers Gay Marriage Amendment

Reports: Republicans Put Wars Ahead of People

Reports: Always Some Bushie There to Remind Us

Reports: Obama’s Paradox Problem

Reports: A Come-to-Jesus Moment for American Religion

Reports: Jobs: Go Big or Go Home

Cartoons: Look for Signs

Reports: Race and the Church of Denialism

Cartoons: Presidential Campaign Posters

Reports: Perry’s Big Mouth Is Giving Republicans Headaches

Reports: How Obama Can Save His Presidency

Cartoons: Election Year

Reports: What Obama Should Learn From Wisconsin

Reports: Killer in Chief

Reports: President Bachmann: Another Mideast Messiah

Reports: The New Old Obama

Reports: Wisconsin: Conservatives Win, Liberals Gain

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Ramadan, Revolution and Rumors

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

Reports: Can America Still Lead?

Reports: A Downgrade’s GOP Fingerprints

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

Reports: Oh, What a Tea Party!

Reports: Yes to Moderation, No to Centrism

Reports: The Money Melodrama in Washington

Reports: After the Debt Ceiling Fiasco

Reports: Republican Goofery Isn’t Limited to the Tea Party

Reports: Blowing Up the House

Ear to the Ground: Cancer Will Not Keep Hugo Chavez From Politics

Ear to the Ground: Study: To Win Votes, Motivate Your Base

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

Reports: Obama’s Raw Deal?

Reports: The Finland Phenomenon

Reports: Making a Progressive Case

A/V Booth: What If Jesse Jackson Had Been the First Black President?

Reports: Democracy Building Is Back in Fashion

Reports: Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for President

Ear to the Ground: Hey Thai Government, This Girl Just Kicked Your Ass

Reports: Defending the Supremely Powerful

Reports: Gay Marriage: From Stonewall to Albany

Reports: The Economics of a ‘Rabbit Cage’

Reports: Huntsman: Yes, He Might

Reports: Rigging the 2012 Election

Reports: Here We Go Again: Reform in California

Reports: No Need to Demagogue the Ryan Plan

Reports: GOP’s Self-Destruction Derby

A/V Booth: Texas Gov. on Presidential Bid: Going to ‘Think About It’

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

Arts and Culture: Words From the Right: On Buckley and From Paul and Breitbart

Reports: A Medicare Moment for the GOP

Reports: Crime Scene From Two Cities

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’: Lithgow Channels Gingrich

Reports: Will Symbols Trump Logic?

Reports: Strauss-Kahn Scandal an Embarrassment for France

Reports: Obama Gets No Credit for Courage

Reports: Mr. Big Takes a Perp Walk

Ear to the Ground: Trump Spares Us the Possibility of His Becoming President (Video)

Reports: Tough Enough

Ear to the Ground: Wisconsin Recount a Mess

Ear to the Ground: Exiled Tibetans Elect a New Leader

Cartoons: Barack OJimmy

Cartoons: Kissing GOP Frogs

Ear to the Ground: 500 Dead in Nigerian Postelection Violence

Ear to the Ground: 2012 GOP Candidate Pool Officially Unexciting

Ear to the Ground: Postelection Violence Rocks Nigeria

Cartoons: Birther in Chief

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