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The neoconservative leading the fight over the legacy of Vatican II in the American Church.

IRS building

It’s absurd to expect agency auditors to sort out confusing, outdated campaign finance laws and regulations.

Chris Christie

The governor needs to peddle a moderate image to win re-election in New Jersey, but on everything from reproductive rights to the environment to austerity, he’s very conservative.

Lemoore, California

Without its lifeline, a stream of federal aid, Lemoore is in crisis mode—and residents of all political stripes are united in outrage.

GOP-Fox Circus Act

Post Election Day, is the network's huge audience tuning out?

Occupy the DOE march

The growing movement against education reform is challenging a well-messaged behemoth funded by billionaires and sanctioned by both political parties.

Katrina vanden Heuvel on the battle for paid sick days, Elana Leopold on the fight against Pam Geller's Islamaphobic ads, Sarah Woolf on the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the editors congratulate Katha for her National Magazine Award nomination

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins pulled off a huge upset in a state legislative race by showing that he cared.

survivalism

Prophecies of government tyranny, financial meltdown and violent anarchy featured on Doomsday Preppers are being absorbed into contemporary conservatism.

Obama in Israel

We continue to obsess about Iran's fantasy weapons, but pay remarkably little attention to the existing nuclear weapons in the region—Israel's.

Blogs

Groupthink has misled us to belive that austerity will bring economic growth. What suggestion will finally alert us to the ticking of so many other issues that we've blocked out?

February 22, 2013

Will Virginia be the latest case for proving why the Voting Rights Act is still needed?

February 22, 2013

The political press doesn't understand just how differently the right thinks—it's scientifically proven.

February 21, 2013

A smart young college student tried to find a place for himself in the modern Republican Party—and ended up running screaming in the other direction.

February 21, 2013

We need to ask ourselves what these tales in political corruption are teaching us to believe.

February 21, 2013

Of course the defense nominee wasn't receiving funds from the made-up “Friends of Hamas.” But such coverage plays to Republicans’ agenda, regardless of its truthfulness.

February 21, 2013

Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei complain about access to the president—but what did they really do with that access when they had it?

February 20, 2013

In a belated birthday wish, a reminder of how morally obtuse Ronald Reagan could be.

February 19, 2013

The front men for the austerity agenda are back with plans to cut Social Security and redistribute wealth upward.

February 19, 2013

A task force exists to prosecute those who cause the housing crisis. Now we need to help it get to work.

February 18, 2013
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