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Reports: Understanding Our Hollow ‘Centrists’

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

Reports: Intelligentsia Against Intelligence

Reports: Enough G-2 Talk Already

Reports: GOP Obstruction Goes Unnoticed—and Unpunished

Reports: What Is So Patriotic About Hysteria?

Reports: Three Abortion Coverage Myths

Reports: The Demilitarization of the White House

Ear to the Ground: 1 in 7 Americans Went Hungry in 2008

Reports: We Need a Civilian ‘ROTC’

Reports: Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?

Reports: Don’t Let Abortion Destroy Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Rains on Surge Parade

Reports: Department of Health Care Misinformation

Reports: When Voters Disrupt the Tea Party

Reports: Kucinich: Why I Voted No

Ear to the Ground: The Rich? They Get Elected

Reports: We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It

Reports: Keep the Government Out of the News Business

Reports: Learning to Speak Anew in a Tribal World

Reports: The GOP’s Toxic Tea Party

Reports: Today’s U.S. Army and Its Ambitions

Reports: The Tortured Logic Continues

Reports: The Best Justice That Money Can Buy

Reports: Opium, Rape and the American Way

Reports: McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama?

Reports: Afghan Poppy Trade Blurs All the Lines

Reports: TARP on Steroids

Reports: When the Tough Should Get Going

Ear to the Ground: Pot Politics: California Could Go All the Way

Reports: The Party of Choice

Ear to the Ground: Geithner’s Fed Made AIG Pay Banks to the Max

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

Reports: Wall Street ‘Crimes’ Need Better Policing

Reports: The Country That Cries Wolf

Reports: Blinded by Reform

Reports: Playing Monopoly With America’s Health

Ear to the Ground: Nancy Pelosi Promises Public Option on the Cheap

Ear to the Ground: Boom Times for Pot Growers

Reports: Trick or Treat for Climate Change

Reports: With Al-Qaida Fading, Why Expand the Afghan War?

Ear to the Ground: Sorry Grandma, No COLA for You

Reports: Looking for a Middle Class

Ear to the Ground: Snowe Helps Baucus Bill Pass Committee Hurdle

Reports: Bribe, Vote, Repeat

Reports: Night of the Living Deadbeats

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

Reports: Why Obama Must Spend More

Reports: Watch What You Tweet

Reports: The Missing Health Care Debate

Reports: A Slippery Slope on Guns

Reports: Pox Americana: The Real Cost of Bailing Out Wall Street

Reports: Who’s in Charge: Obama, Congress or the Military?

Reports: ‘Socialism’ and Sham in the Senate

Reports: Communist China Turns 60—and Reveals Its Insecurities

Reports: Obama’s Afghanistan Dilemma

Reports: A Question of Health—and Equality

Reports: Making Tragedy Out of Farce

Reports: The Public Option Only Looks Dead

Reports: In Europe, the Left Has Run Out of Gas

Reports: Reflections on the ‘Godfather’ of Neoconservatism

Reports: Charity Should Begin With Charities

Reports: Health Reform Money Is Aimed at Red States

Ear to the Ground: Justice to Tackle Federal Secrecy Abuses

Reports: President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action

Reports: Talk of Bipartisanship Is Now Thoroughly Warped

A/V Booth: Bill O’Reilly Wants a Public Option

Reports: Why We Fight the Tire War With China

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

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Finds Israel War Crimes in Gaza

Reports: The Other Public Options

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s White House Is Woman and Girl Crazy—in a Good Way

Ear to the Ground: Nothing Has Changed on Wall Street

Reports: Homeland Security Spending Marked by Waste, Shoddy Oversight

Reports: A Hundred Holocausts: An Insider’s Window Into U.S. Nuclear Policy

Reports: A Speech Even Insurance Companies Could Love

Reports: Obama’s Health Care Reset

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

Reports: The United States of Plutocracy

Reports: States Ignoring Stimulus Welfare Fund

Reports: Food Is Power and the Powerful Are Poisoning Us

Reports: From ‘Do No Harm’ to Torture

Ear to the Ground: Kabul Contractor Parties Aren’t the Half of It

Reports: Health Care’s Senior Moments

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

Reports: Will Japan’s New Leader Maintain His Country’s Fealty to Washington?

Reports: New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks

Reports: Go to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire

Reports: Ted Kennedy’s Humanity

Reports: Who Is Obama Playing Ball With?

Reports: Only One U.S. Official Has Taken an Honorable Stand on Torture

Reports: Status Quo Is Not an Option

Reports: We Need to Know What Was Done in Our Name

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

Reports: Obama’s Invisible Achievement

Arts and Culture: A Bomb in Every Issue

Reports: Missing: Democrats’ Passion

Ear to the Ground: Putin’s Pecs and Political Roid Rage

Ear to the Ground: The Pentagon Can’t Stop Baghdad Bombs

Reports: You Can’t Blame Obama for American Stubbornness

Ear to the Ground: Can Whole Foods Repair Its Image?

Ear to the Ground: ‘Nothing Has Changed’ for Public Option

Reports: Phantom of the Health Care Soap Opera

Reports: Playing Defense Isn’t Working

Reports: Pulling the Plug on the Public Option

Reports: Only Time Can Heal Some Iraqi Wounds

Reports: 10 Awesome Reasons to Pass Health Reform

Ear to the Ground: Team Obama Ready to Surrender Public Option?

Reports: Bush’s Pioneering Sadists: A Tale From the ‘War on Terror’ Dark Side

Reports: The Real Death Panels

Ear to the Ground: Contractor Waste of Tax Dollars Continues

Reports: Health Care Reform Needs an Action Hero

Reports: A Reason for All the Health Care Rage

Ear to the Ground: Paul Krugman: Big Government Prevented a Second Depression

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

Reports: Playing Politics With a Ghost

Reports: Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Reports: Read My Lips: We Need to Raise Taxes

Ear to the Ground: U.K. to Monitor Families With In-Home Surveillance

Reports: A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House

Reports: U.S. Militarism Makes Us Less Secure

Ear to the Ground: Come Rain, Sleet or E-Mail

Reports: Can Republicans Escape Their Extremists?

Arts and Culture: Frederic Raphael on Socrates

Reports: It’s Time for the U.S. to Declare Victory and Go Home

Reports: The Marvel That Is Medicare

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

Reports: The Attack of the 1-Percenters

Reports: U.S. Foreign Wars Not Going According to Plan

Reports: Blue Dogs: The Special Interest Pets

Reports: What Really Causes Autism? Thousands of Parents Still Blame Vaccines

Reports: Take Politics Out of Health Care Reform

Reports: Obama Means Business About Two-State Solution

Ear to the Ground: California Cuts Budget Deal

Reports: Support Iran Protesters Without Meddling

Reports: War Without Purpose

Reports: China Is Here

Reports: Health Insurance Whistle-Blower Knows Where the Bodies Are Buried

Ear to the Ground: Gone With the Wind

Reports: The Unemployed Will Roar

Reports: Party of Franken, Party of Palin

Reports: Two Standards of Detention

Ear to the Ground: Progressives Flex Health Care Muscle

Reports: So This Is What Victory Looks Like?

Ear to the Ground: Public Option in Critical Condition

Reports: Obama’s Long, Hard Summer

Reports: The Age of Paine

Reports: The Root of Madoff’s Evil

Reports: U.S. Troops Leave Iraqi Cities, but Unsettled Issues Remain

Reports: Iraq Has Another One of Its Famous Turning Points

Reports: America’s ICE Backwards Approach to Immigration

Reports: Obama and the Stone Tablets

Reports: The Sickening Influence of Campaign Contributions

Reports: Courtly Politics

Ear to the Ground: Public Option or Bust

Reports: Foreclosure Fiasco

Reports: Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age

Reports: Iran’s Regime Reveals Its Brutality

A/V Booth: Obama ‘Strongly Condemns’ Iran Crackdown

Ear to the Ground: Iran Election Watchdog Stands by Results

Reports: Symbols Are Not Enough to Win This Battle

Reports: Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

Reports: Daring to Dream

Ear to the Ground: Deficit Could Be Obama’s Achilles’ Heel

Reports: The AMA’s Unhealthy Obsession

Reports: The Bipartisanship of Fools

Reports: Why Patch-and-Fill Won’t Do

Reports: Obama’s Economic Misfits Finally Get It

Ear to the Ground: Obama OKs Some Benefits for Gay Federal Workers’ Partners

Reports: The Islamic Republic Is Not in Danger

Reports: The American Empire Is Bankrupt

Reports: Obama and the Politics of Short Memories

Arts and Culture: Megan Hustad on Class in America

Reports: The Lone Wolves Among Us

Reports: Why So Scared of a Public Plan?

Ear to the Ground: Ahmadinejad Blames Hitler and Israelis for Rivals’ Success

Reports: America’s Foreign Policy Phobias Are Overblown

Ear to the Ground: An Army of Fun

Reports: A Republican to Save Us

Reports: Two Men Who Stood Under the Plunderers’ Knives

Ear to the Ground: Some Banks to Repay Bailout Funds

Ear to the Ground: Supremes Stall Chrysler Deal

Ear to the Ground: China to Censor Online Porn, Possibly Basketball

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Reports: Harry and Louise Need Health Reform

Reports: Prop. 8 and the Misery of the Law

Reports: Domestic Terrorism by Any Standard

Reports: Rush and Newt Are Winning

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Reports: Health Care Reform’s Pulse Is Fading

Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

Reports: Hung Up on Race

Reports: Fessing Up Has Lost Its Shock Value

Reports: Sotomayor Is No Leftist

Reports: A Justice for Us All

Ear to the Ground: Conservatives Go After Arab Israelis

Reports: ‘Clean’ Energy and Poisoned Water

Reports: Obama and the Limits of Mastery

Arts and Culture: Lou Cannon on Ronald Reagan

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

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