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Reports: The Age of Paine

Cartoons: Soul Mate

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

Reports: The Battle Over the Burqa

Reports: Suddenly, a Trillion Dollars Is Too Expensive?

Reports: Warming Up a New Politics?

Ear to the Ground: Dems Make Franken a Player

Cartoons: The Long Goodbye

Cartoons: Family Values

Reports: America’s ICE Backwards Approach to Immigration

Ear to the Ground: Obama Overload?

Reports: The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free

Reports: Obama and the Stone Tablets

Cartoons: Berlusconi’s Italians [A Cartoon From Germany]

Ear to the Ground: Honduras’ Leftist President Gets the Boot

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

Ear to the Ground: Still Waiting on Minnesota

A/V Booth: Turning Soldiers Into Crusaders

Cartoons: Hiking

Reports: The Sickening Influence of Campaign Contributions

Reports: Courtly Politics

Reports: Journalism in the Twitter Era

Ear to the Ground: Did Taxpayers Fund Sanford’s Love Jaunts?

Ear to the Ground: Governor Admits Argentine Tryst

Ear to the Ground: Public Option or Bust

Reports: Iran’s Regime Reveals Its Brutality

Ear to the Ground: Obama Comes Closer to Meddling

Ear to the Ground: Iran Election Watchdog Stands by Results

Cartoons: Alternative Lifestyle

Reports: Symbols Are Not Enough to Win This Battle

Ear to the Ground: Governor Goes Missing

Ear to the Ground: Iran Arrests Hundreds, Admits Vote Errors

Cartoons: Uncle Sam

Cartoons: Friendly Advice

Reports: Obama’s Iran Dilemma

A/V Booth: Bill Maher: ‘Democrats Are the New Republicans’

Ear to the Ground: 10 Reported Killed in Streets of Tehran

Reports: Health Care Reform by Medicare Expansion

Cartoons: More Than the Sum of 140 Characters

Reports: Daring to Dream

Ear to the Ground: Health Care Fail

Reports: The War Between Civilizations That Never Was

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

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

Reports: The AMA’s Unhealthy Obsession

Reports: Tuning a Culture to a ‘Calling’

Reports: The Bipartisanship of Fools

Reports: Obama’s Economic Misfits Finally Get It

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

Ear to the Ground: Obama Won’t ‘Meddle’ in Iran

Reports: Congre$$, Heal Thyself

Reports: The Islamic Republic Is Not in Danger

Reports: Learning to Live With the Devil We Know

Ear to the Ground: Iran to Recount Disputed Votes

Reports: Guns and the Link We Won’t Admit

Reports: The American Empire Is Bankrupt

Reports: Obama and the Politics of Short Memories

Cartoons: Scared of Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: Gays Losing Patience With Team Obama

Ear to the Ground: CIA Chief Wonders Whether Cheney Wishes for Terrorist Attack

A/V Booth: Bill Maher Is Hoping for a Little More Audacity

Ear to the Ground: Ahmadinejad Wins Dubious Election

Arts and Culture: Megan Hustad on Class in America

Cartoons: The Lesser of Two Spuds

Reports: All Politics, and Change, Is Still Local

Reports: The Lone Wolves Among Us

Reports: The Justice Business

Reports: The Identity Dance

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

Reports: America’s Foreign Policy Phobias Are Overblown

Cartoons: Vern

Reports: A Republican to Save Us

Reports: Outrage—and Business as Usual

Reports: Being Obama Matters

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

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Cartoons: Naysayers

Reports: Harry and Louise Need Health Reform

Ear to the Ground: Two Elections in the World Spotlight

A/V Booth: LRC: Obama in the Middle East, GM in Bankruptcy, Now What?

Ear to the Ground: Man Arrested in Threat to Blow Up Sotomayor

Arts and Culture: Susie Linfield on How to Think About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Reports: Prop. 8 and the Misery of the Law

Reports: Whither the Sacred Campaign Promise?

Reports: Obama’s Cairo Speech: Significant, Eloquent—and Perhaps Just the Beginning

A/V Booth: Obama’s Cairo Speech

Ear to the Ground: Brown in the Dumps

Ear to the Ground: Moving to Run California ‘More Efficiently’

Ear to the Ground: The Cold War Is Over ... Well, Sort of

Reports: Domestic Terrorism by Any Standard

Reports: Rush and Newt Are Winning

Ear to the Ground: New Hampshire Legalizes Gay Marriage

Reports: Myth of the Lone Shooter

Reports: Reagan Didn’t Do It

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Aren’t Buying What Schwarzenegger’s Cutting

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Invites Iran for Hot Dogs and Fireworks

A/V Booth: Cheney Backs Gay Marriage

Reports: Fighting Crime by Reforming Juvenile Hall

Truthdig Podcast: Fighting Crime by Reforming Juvenile Hall

Reports: A Lemon of a Bailout

Cartoons: It Worked for Clarence Thomas

Reports: America’s Changing Moral Universe

Cartoons: GOP Paints Sotomayor

A/V Booth: Bill Maher: America Is Greedy, Not Good

Ear to the Ground: Bush Defends Torture

Reports: Hung Up on Race

Cartoons: Big Tent

Reports: A Wise Person for the Court

Reports: Why Obama’s Court Pick Is Already a Winner

Reports: Sotomayor Is No Leftist

Reports: A Justice for Us All

Ear to the Ground: Conservatives Go After Arab Israelis

Cartoons: How a Hate Crime Becomes a Law

Ear to the Ground: Uncle Sam to Own GM Without Any of the Perks

Reports: The West’s Reckless Approach to Relations With Russia

Ear to the Ground: House Arrest Over for Aung San Suu Kyi

Reports: Fresh Air Versus a Bunker

Reports: Obama and the Limits of Mastery

A/V Booth: Bill Maher’s California Elegy

Ear to the Ground: Netanyahu Backs Settlement Expansion

Reports: Packing Heat in the Parks

Ear to the Ground: Top GOP Senator Threatens High Court Filibuster

Reports: The House That Taxpayers Built

A/V Booth: Cheney’s Chains to Torture

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Military Investigating Afghan Casualty Claims

Arts and Culture: Lou Cannon on Ronald Reagan

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

Reports: Combating Epidemic Ignorance

Cartoons: Breakup

Ear to the Ground: B of A Chairman Dethroned

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Hallmark Moment

Ear to the Ground: Blind People Aren’t Crazy About Your Prius

Ear to the Ground: Special Frenemies

Reports: Sen. Arlen Specter on Switching

Ear to the Ground: Sebelius at Last

Reports: Look to the Law—Not to Whether Torture ‘Works’

Reports: Specter Comes Full Circle

Ear to the Ground: Senate Shake-Up: Specter Goes Blue

Reports: Model for an Accounting

Ear to the Ground: Boost Your Karma With a Vote for Truthdig

Cartoons: Feeling Dirty

Ear to the Ground: Joe Wilson Wants Dick Cheney to Let It All Hang Out

Cartoons: Take It From Bert

Reports: Obama Has Missed His Moment

Reports: What to Make of the Ironic Mr. Obama

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Declares Swine Flu Emergency

A/V Booth: Bill Maher on GOP Drama

Ear to the Ground: Stuck Between a Turk and an Armenian, So to Speak

Reports: News Flash: Populism Is Popular

Reports: Europe Needs No Part in Doomed Afghan War

Ear to the Ground: Holder Says He Will Pursue Torture Wrongdoing

Ear to the Ground: Chrysler Heads for the Chop Shop

Reports: Stop Thinking About Yesterday’s Health Care Debate

Reports: Sexting—and Common Sense

Reports: Reagan and Nixon Greeted Despots, Too

Ear to the Ground: John McCain for Anti-Torture Czar?

Ear to the Ground: There’s Gold in Them Waves

Cartoons: Decisions Decisions

Reports: When Slapped, Slap Back

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

Reports: Where’s Rev. Wright When You Need Him?

Ear to the Ground: Treasury Covers for Stingy Banks

Cartoons: Doing Nothing

Cartoons: The Downside

Arts and Culture: Chesa Boudin on Growing Up Radical

Reports: Columbine Questions We Still Don’t Ponder

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

Reports: A Strange Dual Citizenship

Ear to the Ground: They Don’t Build Democracies Like They Used To

Ear to the Ground: Truthdig Nominated for Best Political Site in Best Political Year

Reports: Pacifica Radio at 60: A Sanctuary of Dissent

Ear to the Ground: Tony Blair Goes Gaga for God

Reports: Wrong Road to Recovery

Reports: Castro’s Racial-Paradise Myth

Ear to the Ground: Norm Coleman Is the Energizer Bunny of Losers

Ear to the Ground: You Can’t Teach an Old Predatory Lender New Tricks

Reports: Israel’s Racist in Chief

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Role in the Pirate Affair

Ear to the Ground: Land of Coups

Cartoons: Running on Fumes

Ear to the Ground: What You Dig

Reports: Getting to Zero Starts With One Man

Reports: Torture Is a Crime That Must Be Punished

Reports: The Best Investment Money Can Buy

Arts and Culture: Susan Jacoby on William Goetzmann’s ‘Beyond the Revolution’

Ear to the Ground: Obama Considering Radical Solutions to Climate Crisis

Reports: Obama: The Extremists’ Nightmare

Reports: Pelosi’s Balancing Act

Ear to the Ground: Shoe-Thrower Catches a Break

Ear to the Ground: Iran Warms to Obama Overtures

Ear to the Ground: Mitt Romney’s Housing Crisis

Cartoons: Shovel Ready [A Cartoon From Mexico]

Ear to the Ground: Obama Shows the Troops Some Love

Reports: It’s Now a ‘Soft War’ in Afghanistan, but It’s Still a Disaster

Cartoons: The Dream

Reports: Crazy Like a Fox?

Reports: Resist or Become Serfs

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

Cartoons: Suckers

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