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

Reports: Republicans vs. the Palinites

Reports: The GOP’s Toxic Tea Party

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

Reports: 2009 Elections Don’t Foretell a Thing

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

Reports: The Battle to Define the New Health Care System

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

Reports: TARP on Steroids

A/V Booth: Boehner Decries Health Bill as ‘Government Takeover’

Ear to the Ground: House Dems Unveil Giant Health Care Reform Bill

Reports: The Party of Choice

Ear to the Ground: House Dems Water Down Public Option

Reports: Wall Street ‘Crimes’ Need Better Policing

Reports: GOP Civil War Flares in New York

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

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

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

Reports: Bribe, Vote, Repeat

Ear to the Ground: Summers to Boehner: Stimulus Is Working

Reports: Rangel’s Portrait of Corruption

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

Reports: Meltdown After the Meltdown

Reports: Stimulation Without the S-Word

Reports: Why Obama Must Spend More

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

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

A/V Booth: Congressman: Republicans Are ‘Knuckle-Dragging Neanderthals’

Reports: Obama’s Afghanistan Dilemma

Reports: A Question of Health—and Equality

Ear to the Ground: House Votes to Pay Nation’s Bills, Tosses In a Bit for Itself

Reports: Health Reform Money Is Aimed at Red States

Ear to the Ground: Shady Deal Showered Top Blue Dog With Cash

Reports: A Clunker, Not a Cadillac

Reports: Talk of Bipartisanship Is Now Thoroughly Warped

Reports: Joe Wilson’s Confederate Cronies

Reports: Testing the Obama Effect

Ear to the Ground: Baucus Bill Lands With a Whimper

Reports: Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

Cartoons: Appease and Carrots

Reports: We’ve Seen This Trigger Before

Reports: No Way to Treat a President

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: 60 S.C. GOP Reps Want Sanford Out

Reports: The United States of Plutocracy

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

Ear to the Ground: We Are Watching You

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

Reports: Don’t Be Fooled by the Public Option

Reports: Distorting the Voice of the People

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

Reports: New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks

Reports: How Obama Can Win on Health Care

Reports: Who Is Obama Playing Ball With?

Reports: Status Quo Is Not an Option

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

Reports: Progressives Are the Key to Reform

Reports: Missing: Democrats’ Passion

Reports: Obama’s Enforcer: Not Really Tough Enough

Reports: You Can’t Blame Obama for American Stubbornness

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

Ear to the Ground: Obama Feels Liberal Backlash on Public Option

Reports: 10 Awesome Reasons to Pass Health Reform

Ear to the Ground: Georgia Republican Worries Dems Will Declare Martial Law

Reports: The Real Death Panels

Ear to the Ground: House Leaders Cite ‘Un-American’ Activities

Reports: Can Republicans Escape Their Extremists?

Reports: The Electricity in Your Garbage

Reports: Health Care Tyranny by 13 Obstructionists

Reports: A Time, Again, for Bill Clinton

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

Reports: Less Than Perfect Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: Public Option Headed for Senate Death

Reports: The Attack of the 1-Percenters

Reports: The Politics of Tenacity

Reports: Blue Dogs: The Special Interest Pets

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

Reports: Take Politics Out of Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes Down Military Boondoggle

Reports: Obama’s Aces in the Hole

Reports: Dennis vs. Goliath

Truthdig Podcast: Dennis vs. Goliath

Reports: Pelosi’s Toothless ‘Commission’

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

Ear to the Ground: CIA ‘Lied’ to Congress

Reports: The Unemployed Will Roar

Ear to the Ground: Progressives Flex Health Care Muscle

Ear to the Ground: Obama Still Backs Public Option

Ear to the Ground: Public Option in Critical Condition

Reports: Warming Up a New Politics?

Reports: Iraq Has Another One of Its Famous Turning Points

Ear to the Ground: Kucinich Says Climate Bill Might Make Things Worse

Reports: The Sickening Influence of Campaign Contributions

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

Reports: Tuning a Culture to a ‘Calling’

Reports: The Bipartisanship of Fools

Reports: Obama’s Economic Misfits Finally Get It

Reports: Outrage—and Business as Usual

Reports: Prop. 8 and the Misery of the Law

Reports: Health Care Reform’s Pulse Is Fading

Ear to the Ground: Al Gore Puts On His Capitalist Cap

Reports: Fessing Up Has Lost Its Shock Value

Reports: Fresh Air Versus a Bunker

Reports: Enough With This ‘100 Days’ Nonsense

Reports: Stop Thinking About Yesterday’s Health Care Debate

Reports: Bybee Must Go

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

Reports: Who Will Face Down the Gun Lobby?

Reports: Don’t Underestimate the Tea-Baggers

Ear to the Ground: There’s No Place Like Home, Unless You’re Chris Dodd

Reports: Tea and Ignorance

Reports: Pelosi’s Balancing Act

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

Ear to the Ground: Big Tobacco Targeted by Bigger Government

Ear to the Ground: N.Y. Race Too Close to Call

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

Arts and Culture: Jonathan Shapiro on ‘The Tyranny of Dead Ideas’

Reports: Daring to Utter the T Word

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

Reports: Our Justified Populist Rage

Reports: N.Y. Attorney General Investigates AIG’s ‘Staggering’ Bonus Mess

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

Reports: A Big Moment for Volunteerism

Reports: A Bad Fix Would Be No Fix

Reports: Put Single-Payer on the Table

Reports: If Only Obama Were as Radical as They Say

Reports: Pelosi Has Reason to Smile

Ear to the Ground: House Flummoxed by Green Initiatives

Reports: Robin-Hood Republicanism?

Reports: Government’s Long Night May Be Ending

Reports: Bill Redux?

Reports: The President’s Address to Congress

Reports: A Road-Trip Presidency

Reports: Past the Point of No Return

Ear to the Ground: Congress for Sale

Reports: Downward Automobility

Reports: There Was No GOP ‘Victory’

Reports: Carmaker, Banker, Broker ...

Ear to the Ground: Pols Sink or Swim With the Stimulus

Reports: Mr. Inside

Reports: A Dubious Equality for Women

Reports: Where’s the Top Gun?

Reports: The High Cost of Centrism

Ear to the Ground: Dems Bicker Behind the Scenes

Ear to the Ground: Reid Announces Stimulus Agreement

Ear to the Ground: Stimulus Survives Senate Pecking

Reports: Slam the Door on Compromise

Reports: The Real Obama

Reports: In Washington, Public Policy and Private Wealth Are Hopelessly Tangled

Reports: Howard Dean Should Have Been Obama’s Pick All Along

Reports: GOP Revs Up the Spin on Stimulus

Reports: Dear Wall Street

Cartoons: Stampede

Reports: Making Him Do It

Reports: The GOP’s Soundproof Room

Reports: Let the Limbaughs Whine

Reports: Stimulus Brings on a Family Feud

Ear to the Ground: Obama Pitches Stimulus Plan to GOP

Reports: Partisan Politics Wait in the Wings

Reports: Giving Obama the Benefit of the Doubt

Reports: It’s Over—and Not a Moment Too Soon

Reports: Fool Me Once

Ear to the Ground: What Does $825 Billion of Stimulation Feel Like?

Reports: Who’s in Charge—Obama, the Pentagon or Israel?

Reports: The Party of No Ideas

Reports: Nothing to Fear but No Health Care

Reports: One for the Workers

Reports: Learning From Clinton’s Mistakes

Ear to the Ground: The Road to Impeachment

Reports: The Politician in Chief Works for a Stimulus

Reports: Blagojevich vs. the Senate

Reports: Voices of Resistance Sing On

Reports: Workers Laid Off, Executives Paid Off, Bernard Madoff

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Gets Tough With Rahmbo

Reports: Crippling the Auto Union Is Just a Warm-Up

Reports: Killing the Big 3 Would Be Nuts

Ear to the Ground: In Illinois, They Love Blagojevich Not

Reports: Redrawing the Political Map

Ear to the Ground: Auto Bailout Comes With Car Czar, Standard

Ear to the Ground: Senator Tells GM Chief to Take a Hike

Ear to the Ground: Is Bush Dallas Bound?

Reports: Class Bigotry Mars Auto Debate

Reports: Bush’s Hoover Impression Flirts With Depression

Ear to the Ground: Dems Dump Detroit’s Man on the Hill

Ear to the Ground: Detroit Bailout Looks Unlikely

Arts and Culture: Jane Ciabattari on Toni Morrison’s ‘A Mercy’

Reports: Knowing When to Walk Away

Ear to the Ground: ‘Whatever Nancy Wants, Nancy Gets’

Reports: The Danger in Timidity

Reports: Only One Good Path for the Democrats: Go Big

Reports: The Ghost in Obama’s White House

Ear to the Ground: The Obama Administration Begins to Take Shape

Reports: Homeland Security Pays Dividends for Alaska

Ear to the Ground: Dems Tap Credit for Congressional Campaigns

Ear to the Ground: Greenspan Admits Ideological Flaw

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