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Ear to the Ground: Independent Voters Swing to Obama

Reports: Contraception and the Cost of Culture Wars

Cartoons: Single-Payer Contraception

Reports: Will Mortgage Settlement Avoid Repeating Obama’s Foreclosure Failures?

Reports: Romney’s Overriding Ambition

Cartoons: Flock This Way

Reports: Elections Are for Suckers

Reports: Clint, Rick and the Limits of Pessimism

Ear to the Ground: Killing Fellow Americans? Sure, Say Most of Us

Reports: America’s Pro-Choice Majority Speaks Out

Ear to the Ground: Boehner Goes on the Attack Against Contraception Policy

Ear to the Ground: What Santorum’s Surge Means for Romney

Ear to the Ground: Fracking and the Government: 1969-Present

Ear to the Ground: Iran and Israel: Only Half the Story

Reports: Europe Decides Not to Play America’s Game

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

A/V Booth: Report Contradicts Obama on Drone Casualties

Reports: The Uninspired GOP Electorate

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

Reports: Romney’s 1 Percent Nation Under God

Reports: How Romney Won, and Lost

Arts and Culture: How the Stimulus Revived the Electric Car

Reports: The GOP’s Anti-Gingrich Campaign

Reports: Politics as Entertainment

Reports: Corporations Have No Use for Borders

Ear to the Ground: The Keystone XL Media Bias

Ear to the Ground: Newt Gingrich, Shameless Demagogue

Cartoons: Running Mate

Reports: An Argument Obama Can Win

Cartoons: State of the Union

Reports: Obama’s Faux Populism Sounds Like Bill Clinton

Reports: Mitch Daniels: Bombast From the Past

Reports: Obama’s Late Payment to Mortgage-Fraud Victims

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

A/V Booth: Robert Redford: We Can’t Afford To Be at the Mercy of Big Oil

Reports: Thank You for Standing Up

Cartoons: Pipeline Politics

Reports: What Newt Learned From Nixon

Reports: Forget Roe, Try Griswold

Reports: Truthdigger of the Week: Chris Hedges

Truthdig Podcast: Chris Hedges on His Lawsuit Against the President

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges on His Lawsuit Against the President

Reports: Change They Don’t Believe In

Reports: Ron Paul and Our Selective Definition of Bigotry

Reports: Tax Day: Will Romney Make April Fools of Republicans?

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Gov’t May Blend FDA, USDA

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

A/V Booth: Obama Plays Defense With First Commercial

Reports: So Much for a Populist GOP

Reports: The Day the Internet Roared

Reports: Election Will Decide Which New Wars Will Be Waged

Reports: A Fair Share of Scrutiny

Ear to the Ground: White House Pushing Big Pharma to Report Payments to MDs

Reports: Why I’m Suing Barack Obama

Ear to the Ground: Huntsman to Endorse Romney

Reports: Moving Obama to Europe

Ear to the Ground: White House Restores Diplomatic Relations With Burma

Reports: Obama’s Mission Accomplished Moment?

Reports: Romneycare, v. 2012

Reports: Education Reformers Send Their Kids to Private School

Reports: At Risk: America’s Poor During and After the Great Recession

Ear to the Ground: Millions of Americans to Be Driven Into Poverty, Study Says

Reports: There’s Hope for Republicans Yet

Reports: Guantanamo at 10: The Prisoner and the Prosecutor

Reports: What Kind of Capitalist Was Romney?

Ear to the Ground: A Decade of Guantanamo

Ear to the Ground: Zuccotti Park Reoccupied

Reports: Karzai’s Bagram Demands Add Stress to U.S. Policy

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

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s New Chief of Staff Hails From Wall Street

Reports: Stuck in the Bloody Primaries

A/V Booth: Do We Need to Worry About the NDAA?

Reports: Hawk in a Clown-Car Field

Cartoons: Pentagon Budget Cuts

Cartoons: Global Politics

Cartoons: One Last Christmas Wish

Ear to the Ground: No Child Left Behind 10 Years Later

Ear to the Ground: China Wary of Obama’s New Military Plan

Cartoons: Slimming Down the Military

Ear to the Ground: Obama Avoids Alignment With Israel Against Iran

Reports: America’s 5 Political Parties

Reports: For Once, Let’s Just Leave Iraq Alone

Reports: Arms Dealer Obama Will Win by Default

Reports: Santorum, Huntsman and the Future of Conservatism

Reports: Did Reagan Raise Taxes? Let GOP Candidates Answer

Reports: Republicans Divided, Citizens United

Ear to the Ground: Obama Gets His Way With Consumer Bureau Pick

Reports: Ron Paul’s Popularity a Sign of a War-Weary America

Cartoons: Iowa and USA Voters

Ear to the Ground: Rupert Murdoch Is on Twitter and It’s Weird

Reports: Extravagant Hopes of 2008 Haunt Obama in 2012

Reports: Could Ron Paul Be the Next Ralph Nader?

Ear to the Ground: Occupy Targets Obama

Ear to the Ground: Krugman: Austerity Still Doesn’t Work

Cartoons: Liberty Detained

Reports: Marginalizing Ron Paul

Reports: A Brainpower Revolution

Cartoons: From Barack

Reports: Obama: The Conservative in 2012

Ear to the Ground: Krugman: ‘Welcome to Post-Truth Politics’

Reports: The GOP’s Iowa Chaos

Reports: Bradley Manning and the Fog of War

Reports: History Tells Us Not to Dismiss a Democratic Challenge to Obama

Reports: Do We Want Mitt Romney Answering the ‘3 A.M.’ Call?

Reports: Three Supreme Court Cases That Should Worry You

Reports: Newt and the Revenge of the Base

Cartoons: Rugs

Reports: Bernie Sanders Explains Why Congress Fears Citizens United

Reports: Been There, Thought That

Reports: The New Newt

Cartoons: Speech at Fort Bragg

Reports: There Goes the Republic

Ear to the Ground: Human Rights Watch Says Obama Will Go Down in History—and Not in a Good Way

Ear to the Ground: Obama Drops Veto Threat, House Passes Defense Bill

Ear to the Ground: America the Battlefield

Cartoons: The Hole Truth

Ear to the Ground: Iran Refuses to Return U.S. Spy Drone

Reports: Iran: A Dangerous Game

Ear to the Ground: Obama, Maliki Make It Official

Reports: Obama Abroad: Democratic Realism

Ear to the Ground: Obama Still of Two Minds on Gay Rights

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

Reports: Government-Sponsored Sinner

Reports: Obama’s New Square Deal

Cartoons: The 2012 Presidential Dejection

Ear to the Ground: Obama Administration Exports GLBTQ Rights

Cartoons: Newt Tidings

A/V Booth: ‘Democracy Now!’: Thousands March for Climate Justice in South Africa

Reports: Shades of Mercy: Presidential Forgiveness Heavily Favors Whites

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Laud the Jobless Drop

Reports: China Profits From U.S.-Pakistan Shipwreck

Ear to the Ground: Let’s Talk About Inequality, Baby

Reports: Thought Crime in Washington

A/V Booth: ‘Democracy Now!’: NATO Kills 24 Pakistani Troops

Cartoons: Turkeys

Reports: Obama’s Catholic Friends and Enemies

Reports: Why Does Obama Suddenly Want a War With China?

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

Cartoons: GOP Candidates

Cartoons: Obama Turkey Pardon

Reports: The Easiest Way to Cut the Deficit

Ear to the Ground: Suspected White House Shooter Arrested

Ear to the Ground: Cabinet Officials Raise ‘Gray Area’ Cash for Obama

Reports: The GOP’s Message Problem

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Takes Its Time on Health Care

Reports: Obama Administration’s War on Pot in California

Ear to the Ground: Everyone Seems to Agree: Netanyahu Lies

Reports: The Nonsense Debate

Ear to the Ground: OWS Censored on Twitter’s Trends? Who Cares?

A/V Booth: Robert Reich and Robert Scheer at Occupy L.A. Teach-In

Reports: California Refuses to Accept Obama’s Banking Sellout

Reports: The Right Wing’s 2011 Shellacking

Ear to the Ground: America Edges Leftward in Elections

Reports: Keystone XL: Ring Around the Rose Garden

Ear to the Ground: Obama the Underdog

Ear to the Ground: Protesters Arrested Outside NYC Courthouse on Bank Transfer Day

Cartoons: More on the Greek Crisis

Cartoons: The Supercommittee

A/V Booth: Chomsky Has Some Advice for the Occupiers

Reports: The Mitt Might Not Fit

Cartoons: Equal Time

Truthdig Podcast: Manarchy!

A/V Booth: Manarchy!

Reports: Too Big to Jail

Cartoons: Job Creation Republicans Will Support

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

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Makes UNESCO Pay for Admitting Palestinians

Ear to the Ground: Halloween and Radio Unreality

Reports: 3 Signs Anti-Wall Streeters Are Succeeding

Cartoons: Occupy This

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Relief in Europe, Inequality in America

Cartoons: Mission ... Accomplished

Ear to the Ground: Labor Lawyer: Look to Keynes to Fix Economy

Reports: How the Rich Subverted the Legal System

Reports: The Arab Spring Gets Messy, and Even Messier for the U.S.

Ear to the Ground: And Now, Another Gimmicky GOP Tax Plan

Truthdig Podcast: The Spiritual Side of Occupy Wall Street

A/V Booth: The Spiritual Side of Occupy Wall Street

Ear to the Ground: Obama Rolls Out New Plan to Help Homeowners

Reports: The GOP’s Outsider Within

Reports: At a Loss for a World View

Cartoons: Err Obamacare

A/V Booth: ‘Frontline’ Investigates Obama’s Record Deportations

Ear to the Ground: Gadhafi Is Reported Killed in Libya

Ear to the Ground: Wall Street Is Still Trying to Buy Obama’s Love

Reports: Lincoln’s Lessons for Obama

Reports: 10 Non-Jobs: Career Alternatives in a Broken Economy

Reports: The Arc of the Moral Universe, From Memphis to Wall Street

Reports: Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party Movements More Alike Than Not

Reports: The Occupy Windfall

Ear to the Ground: Withdrawal Means Withdrawal

Ear to the Ground: Media’s Been Hardest on Candidate Obama, Study Shows

Ear to the Ground: California Medical Assn. Says Pot Should Be Legal

Reports: A Movement Too Big to Fail

Reports: The Tax Hikes That Republicans Love

Ear to the Ground: From Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park: Lessons in Inequality

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Cures for an Ailing Economy?

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