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Reports: Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless

Cartoons: Single-Payer Contraception

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Reports: Clint, Rick and the Limits of Pessimism

Reports: America’s Pro-Choice Majority Speaks Out

Ear to the Ground: Rick Santorum’s Big Night

Cartoons: Romney Cares About the Middle Class

Reports: The Uninspired GOP Electorate

A/V Booth: Bill Moyers Makes Newt Gingrich Look Like an Idiot

Cartoons: The Candidate

Reports: Romney Hasn’t Won Yet

Cartoons: Free From the Tea

Cartoons: Komen Kerfuffle

Reports: Romney’s Indifference to the Poor

Reports: The Democrats Who Unleashed Wall Street and Got Away With It

Reports: What Happened in Florida Won’t Stay in Florida

Reports: Romney’s 1 Percent Nation Under God

Reports: How Romney Won, and Lost

Ear to the Ground: Mitt Romney Says He Is ‘Not Concerned About the Very Poor’

Cartoons: Political Leap Year

Cartoons: Occupy Dreams

Ear to the Ground: Romney Rights the Ship in Florida

Reports: Politics as Entertainment

Reports: Obama Owes More on Religious Freedom

Cartoons: Not That Kind of Occupation

Truthdig Podcast: The Numbers Show

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Cartoons: How the Mammoth Went Extinct

Cartoons: Running Mate

Reports: An Argument Obama Can Win

Ear to the Ground: Freedom of the Press Roughed Up in U.S.

Cartoons: Two-Party System

Cartoons: State of the Union

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges and Lawrence Lessig: Getting Money Out of Politics

Ear to the Ground: Everyone’s a Critic, Including Fidel Castro

Reports: Obama: No Retreat, No Surrender

Reports: Thank You for Standing Up

Cartoons: Gazillions

Cartoons: El Presidente

Cartoons: Hit in the Face

A/V Booth: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Explains Why She’s Resigning From Congress

Reports: What Newt Learned From Nixon

Reports: Forget Roe, Try Griswold

Ear to the Ground: Newt Stomps Romney to Win South Carolina

Cartoons: Mitt Worldview

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?

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

Reports: So Much for a Populist GOP

Cartoons: Compromised

Arts and Culture: Sean Penn’s Diplomatic New Gig

Cartoons: Where the Buck Stops

Reports: A Fair Share of Scrutiny

Reports: Why I’m Suing Barack Obama

Reports: Newt’s Venom Is Mitt’s Medicine

Ear to the Ground: Huntsman to Endorse Romney

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Reports: Education Reformers Send Their Kids to Private School

A/V Booth: Dukakis, Kerry, Romney

Reports: There’s Hope for Republicans Yet

Reports: Bitter Primary Reveals the Real Romney

Reports: Two-for-Two and Game On

Reports: What Kind of Capitalist Was Romney?

Cartoons: The Cartoonist

Ear to the Ground: Zuccotti Park Reoccupied

Ear to the Ground: Romney Takes New Hampshire

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

Cartoons: I Voted

A/V Booth: Did Mitt Romney Really Say He Likes Firing People?

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

Ear to the Ground: Farewell to a Conservative Gentleman

Reports: Stuck in the Bloody Primaries

Reports: Hawk in a Clown-Car Field

Cartoons: Pentagon Budget Cuts

Cartoons: Global Politics

Cartoons: Romney Hair

Cartoons: One Last Christmas Wish

Cartoons: Hobson’s Choice

A/V Booth: Taibbi and Olbermann Talk Money and Politics

Cartoons: Overdose

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

Reports: 10 American ABCs We May Soon Forget

Cartoons: On to New Hampshire

Cartoons: Mitt Wins

Cartoons: Bye Bye Bachmann

Reports: Search and Destroy Mission

Reports: Santorum, Huntsman and the Future of Conservatism

Cartoons: Dough Boy

Ear to the Ground: Mitt Romney Beats Rick Santorum by 8 Votes

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

A/V Booth: A ‘Fuck You’ From Iowa

Cartoons: Iowa and USA Voters

Reports: The Puzzling Presidential Candidacy of Mikhail Prokhorov

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

Cartoons: Are You Experienced?

Arts and Culture: Norman Lear Is a ‘Born Again American’

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges Lays It All Out

Cartoons: New Year’s

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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

Cartoons: Liberty Detained

Reports: Fewer and Fewer Reasons for the West to Fixate on the Mideast

Reports: Marginalizing Ron Paul

Reports: Romney and the Art of Unpredictable Predictability

Ear to the Ground: Everything’s Coming Up Romney

A/V Booth: Greetings From Newt-Hampshire

Cartoons: Baby New Year

Cartoons: Iraq Wound

Reports: A Brainpower Revolution

Cartoons: Shades of Boehner

Cartoons: Over-Caucused

Reports: Obama: The Conservative in 2012

Reports: Obama Benefits From Republican Civil War

Ear to the Ground: Tweet of the Day: Attack of the Drones

Reports: The Bigots and Billionaires in Ron Paul’s Orbit

Reports: The GOP’s Iowa Chaos

Reports: ’Tis The Season of Fake Outrage

Reports: On to the Next ‘Bubble Fantasy’

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

Ear to the Ground: Krugman Deems PolitiFact ‘Useless and Irrelevant’

Reports: Dennis Kucinich on the NDAA and ‘War Without End’

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

Ear to the Ground: Ron Paul Projected to Win Iowa

Reports: Newt and the Revenge of the Base

Ear to the Ground: 30 Companies Paid Lobbyists More Than the IRS

Cartoons: Romney’s Bet

Cartoons: Newt Still Ahead

Cartoons: Mud Wrestling

Reports: Bernie Sanders Explains Why Congress Fears Citizens United

Reports: Christopher Hitchens: Reason in Revolt

Reports: Been There, Thought That

Reports: Banana Republicans’ Assault on Democracy

Ear to the Ground: Rest in Peace, Comrade

Reports: The New Newt

Cartoons: Go Away Trump

Cartoons: Gringrich

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

Reports: A Huntsman Moment?

Reports: Germany Dominates Europe Once Again

Ear to the Ground: America the Battlefield

Ear to the Ground: Krugman Calls It a Depression

Cartoons: Death of Internet Democracy

Cartoons: Madame Pelosi

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

Truthdig Podcast: The Cruelty of Nonlethal Weapons

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Cartoons: Reinvention

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

Reports: Republican Reality Show Gets Weirder and Weirder

Reports: Government-Sponsored Sinner

Reports: Obama’s New Square Deal

Cartoons: The 2012 Presidential Dejection

Cartoons: Newt Tidings

Cartoons: Nott Romney

Cartoons: Hillary and Aung San Suu Kyi

Cartoons: All I Want for Christmas

Cartoons: Mittbott

Reports: Where Were You When They Crucified My Lord?

Reports: Trump? The Republican Primary Is Now Officially a Gong Show

Cartoons: Islamic Spring

Cartoons: U.S. Regrets Friendly Fire Deaths in Pakistan

Cartoons: Cain’s Toast

Truthdig Podcast: Preoccupied by Health and Safety

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Reports: The Sayings of Chairman Barney

Cartoons: Naughty Herman Cain

Cartoons: Mitt Romney

Cartoons: Dual Trigger Double Barrel

Reports: You Can Arrest an Idea

Reports: Giving Politicians a Good Name

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

Reports: Cheering for the Chinese

Cartoons: Pants on Fire

Cartoons: New Slogan for Cain

Reports: Below the Safety Net

Ear to the Ground: Teenager Refuses Orders to Apologize to Conservative Governor

Cartoons: Turkeys

Reports: Will Moderates Defeat Moderation?

Reports: Romney Still Waiting for GOP Love

Ear to the Ground: Violent Response to Occupy Is No Surprise

Cartoons: Tahrir Square

Cartoons: Beg for Money

Cartoons: NBA Super Committee

Reports: Thanks for What?

Reports: Realism and Compassion: Unacceptable in Today’s GOP

Ear to the Ground: The Free Internet Could Soon Die—Is Anyone Watching?

Cartoons: Romney Ad

Reports: How Students Landed on the Front Lines of Class War

Reports: ‘Super Committee’ Fails to Overcome Republican Dogma

Arts and Culture: The New York Times Refused to Print This Book’s Title

A/V Booth: Money: All of It

Reports: It’s Time to Occupy the Majority

Cartoons: Newt’s Parade

Cartoons: Super Committee Gun

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