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Reports: Kucinich on Obama’s Escalation: Great Speech, Bad Policy

Truthdig Podcast: Kucinich on Obama’s Escalation: Great Speech, Bad Policy

Reports: Addicted to Nonsense

Reports: Colbert Conservatives and Military Waste

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

Ear to the Ground: Banks Gamble With Almost-Free Money

Reports: To Your Health—and Mine

Reports: Refuse Allegiance to Coal

Reports: Despite Subsidies, Class Sizes Rise in California Schools

Reports: The Afghanistan Speech Obama Should Give (but Won’t)

Reports: Three Abortion Coverage Myths

Reports: When Voters Disrupt the Tea Party

Reports: Kucinich: Why I Voted No

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

Ear to the Ground: Magic Bomb Wand Would Be Funny if It Didn’t Kill People

Reports: The Best Justice That Money Can Buy

Arts and Culture: Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times

Reports: Opium, Rape and the American Way

Reports: Afghan Poppy Trade Blurs All the Lines

Ear to the Ground: Blue Dog Fundraising Dries Up

Reports: War Is a Hate Crime

Ear to the Ground: Rich Germans Want More Taxes

Reports: Wall Street ‘Crimes’ Need Better Policing

Ear to the Ground: ‘Get Motivated’ With George W. Bush

Reports: Blinded by Reform

Reports: Don’t Worry About Us Seniors

Reports: Trick or Treat for Climate Change

Reports: A Down-and-Out Route for Rush

Reports: Looking for a Middle Class

Ear to the Ground: Dow Hits 10K, You Can Go Back to Work Now

Reports: Bribe, Vote, Repeat

Reports: Night of the Living Deadbeats

Reports: Stimulation Without the S-Word

Reports: The Missing Health Care Debate

Arts and Culture: Treasury Foils Cultural Exchange With Cuba

Ear to the Ground: Obama Pressures Senate on Public Option

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

Reports: A Question of Health—and Equality

Reports: Making Tragedy Out of Farce

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

Ear to the Ground: Veterans Still Waiting for GI Bill Money

Reports: Charity Should Begin With Charities

Reports: Health Reform Money Is Aimed at Red States

Reports: The Worst Type of Cad

Reports: Talk of Bipartisanship Is Now Thoroughly Warped

Arts and Culture: Business Goes to School

Reports: Wall Street Is Still Playing the Odds

Reports: Homeland Security Spending Marked by Waste, Shoddy Oversight

Ear to the Ground: Insurance Stocks Rise After Obama Speech

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

Reports: The United States of Plutocracy

Reports: States Ignoring Stimulus Welfare Fund

Ear to the Ground: Wall Street Comes Up With a Great Idea for the Next Recession

Reports: It Could Be the End of Our Democracy as We Know It

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

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

Ear to the Ground: How About ‘Cash for My Crap Mortgage’?

Reports: Who Is Obama Playing Ball With?

Reports: There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in History

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

Reports: Obama’s Invisible Achievement

Ear to the Ground: Israeli Blockade = Hamas Cash

Reports: Playing Defense Isn’t Working

Reports: Pulling the Plug on the Public Option

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

Reports: The Real Death Panels

Cartoons: ®IP Michael Jackson

Reports: A Reason for All the Health Care Rage

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

Reports: 35 Years After Nixon

Reports: The Me-First, Screw-Everyone-Else Crowd

Ear to the Ground: Hold On to Your Clunkers, the Cash Is Coming

Reports: ‘Judicial Activism’ on Campaign Finance Law

Arts and Culture: Frederic Raphael on Socrates

Reports: Health Care Tyranny by 13 Obstructionists

Reports: What if the Big Cheese Had Been White?

Reports: A Rebound Without Recovery

Reports: Happiness Consultants Won’t Stop a Depression

Reports: The Attack of the 1-Percenters

Reports: The Politics of Tenacity

Reports: Blue Dogs: The Special Interest Pets

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

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes Down Military Boondoggle

Reports: Blame the Midas Touch

Ear to the Ground: Obama Wants to Send Unemployed Back to School

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

Ear to the Ground: Goldman Sachs Execs Dumped Stock Like Crazy

Reports: The Man in the Mirror

Ear to the Ground: Gone With the Wind

Ear to the Ground: AIG Gets Back to Bonuses

Reports: The Unemployed Will Roar

Reports: Party of Franken, Party of Palin

Reports: Don’t Cry for Me, Alaska

Reports: The Crooks Get Cash While the Poor Get Screwed

Reports: The Age of Paine

Ear to the Ground: Washington Post Makes a Really Bad Decision

Reports: Designer Vaginas: Is Female Circumcision Coming Out of the Closet?

Reports: Suddenly, a Trillion Dollars Is Too Expensive?

Reports: The Root of Madoff’s Evil

Reports: The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free

Reports: The Sickening Influence of Campaign Contributions

Reports: Foreclosure Fiasco

Reports: Daring to Dream

Ear to the Ground: Health Care Fail

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

Ear to the Ground: Congress Funds Wars With Billions to Spare

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Financial Plan Fails to Impress

Reports: The AMA’s Unhealthy Obsession

Reports: Tuning a Culture to a ‘Calling’

Reports: Why Patch-and-Fill Won’t Do

Reports: Obama’s Economic Misfits Finally Get It

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 Justice Business

Reports: A Republican to Save Us

Arts and Culture: Actors Reach ‘Devastatingly Unsatisfactory’ Agreement with Studios

Ear to the Ground: Some Banks to Repay Bailout Funds

Reports: Outrage—and Business as Usual

Reports: Harry and Louise Need Health Reform

Reports: Prop. 8 and the Misery of the Law

Reports: Clean Coal or Dry Hole?

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: Obama and the Limits of Mastery

Reports: Obama Has Missed His Moment

Arts and Culture: Eve Pell on America’s Culture of Punishment

Reports: Stop Thinking About Yesterday’s Health Care Debate

Ear to the Ground: Treasury Covers for Stingy Banks

Reports: Don’t Underestimate the Tea-Baggers

Reports: Columbine Questions We Still Don’t Ponder

Reports: Tea and Ignorance

Reports: Armey’s Tea Party Army

Reports: Wrong Road to Recovery

Reports: The Best Investment Money Can Buy

A/V Booth: Protesters Confront Summers

Ear to the Ground: God Is Not a Fan of the Banking Industry

Ear to the Ground: Defense Secretary Trims Fat Around the Edges

Reports: Resist or Become Serfs

Ear to the Ground: Wall Street Showered Obama’s Top Economic Adviser With Riches

Reports: Health Care Reform at Last

Reports: Close These Refuges for Scoundrels

Reports: The Nobelists vs. Obama and Geithner

Reports: Putting the ‘Care’ in Health Care

Reports: Seattle’s Lessons for London

Reports: Cars, Banks and Confusion

Reports: Change You Can Translate

Reports: Obstruction of Justice

Ear to the Ground: What You Dig

Reports: Drugs, Guns and Reality

Reports: Daring to Utter the T Word

Reports: A Repairman, Not a Revolutionary

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

Reports: America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout

Truthdig Podcast: Idealism in Short Supply

Reports: The Geithner Problem

Reports: A Government of Men, Not Laws

Ear to the Ground: Sarah Palin Doesn’t Want Your Money

Reports: If You’re a ‘Little Guy,’ a Contract Means Nothing

Reports: The Geezer Gang Is Staying on the Job

Reports: Our Justified Populist Rage

Reports: Push Back Against AIG’s ‘Best and Brightest’

Ear to the Ground: Geithner’s Bonus Plan as Perplexing as His Other Proposals

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

Reports: Those Hit Hardest Get No Bailout

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

Reports: The False Idol of Unfettered Capitalism

Ear to the Ground: OK—So Where Did the Other Billions Go?

Arts and Culture: Tony Platt on Wall Street Terror Attack

Reports: A Bad Fix Would Be No Fix

Reports: The Point of Pointing Fingers

Reports: Population Boom in the Freezer

Reports: If Only Obama Were as Radical as They Say

Reports: The A Word

Ear to the Ground: GM Is Europe’s Headache, Too

A/V Booth: Jon Stewart Is Mad as Hell

Reports: Finding Peace in the Culture Wars

Ear to the Ground: Bernie Sanders Wants Answers, Writes Legislation to Get Them

Reports: Medicare (Dis-)Advantage

Reports: America’s New Trajectory

Ear to the Ground: Islamic Banks Presented as an Economic Model

Reports: Robin-Hood Republicanism?

Reports: Government’s Long Night May Be Ending

Reports: At Last, Accepting Some Clues From Across the Pond

Reports: The President’s Address to Congress

Reports: Toxins ’R’ Us

Reports: Turn a Harsh Light Onto the Banks

Ear to the Ground: Citigroup Wants a Bigger Bailout

Ear to the Ground: Some Governors May Tell Obama to Stuff It

Arts and Culture: Zachary Karabell on ‘The Case for Big Government’

Reports: Past the Point of No Return

Ear to the Ground: Congress for Sale

Reports: Downward Automobility

Reports: Good Money After Bad

Ear to the Ground: Burris Did More for Blagojevich Than He Let On

Reports: Blame Your Puny Paycheck

Reports: Carmaker, Banker, Broker ...

Reports: Bad News From America’s Top Spy

Reports: A Hand on History

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