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Dinesh D'Souza became a right-wing campus radical at Dartmouth in the late Carter years. His motives should be recognizable to former campus radicals of the other variety.

Raise a Glass to the Stay-at-Home Voter?

How dismal was election night 2002?

One big problem with liberal and leftist debate about Al Qaeda or Iraq
is that it rarely seems to have much to do with Al Qaeda or Iraq.

With Republicans in full control in Washington, next year's prospects
are grim.

CORRECTION: John Eder of Maine, a Green, won state, not national, office.

The talk of war has done its job.
Rove's hopes were far exceeded.
So maybe, with the voting done,
The war itself's not needed.

Well, the elephant is out of the barn now. Congress is lost and whither
Congress, so will go the courts.

Let's take back the Democratic Party and do all we can to beat Bush in 2004.

The Republican wave that swept the country seemed to crash and recede
right at the California border, but only barely.

Blogs

The first Republican attack on Obama’s nominee to the EPA reveals the party’s fundamental beef with the agency as a whole.

March 19, 2013

Who'll be the lucky man (or troll) for you?

March 19, 2013

The party has always harbored conservatives and sell-outs to big business and pro-austerity boosters. The point is not to deny them, but to beat them.

March 18, 2013

The numbers on job creation and unemployment are not as positive as they first appear—just watch American Winter.

March 18, 2013

In hearing a challenge to Arizona’s proof of citizenship law for voter registration, the Justices will decide what powers Congress has to protect the right to vote.

March 18, 2013

Microsoft, a company staking out a public position as pro-equality, helps underwrite a conservative group pushing to exclude gays from the Republican Party. 

March 15, 2013

Chris Hayes moves up, Ed Schultz moves over and the man who taped the Romney “47 percent” video moves into the light. 

March 14, 2013

The lead-up to the Iraq War ten years ago shows us how the media today falsely correlates importance and exclusivity.

March 14, 2013

Unlike Paul Ryan’s thought exercise, the Congressional Progressive Caucus's budget proposal increases job spending while decreasing the public deficit.

March 14, 2013

In a letter to thousands of employees, Charles Koch writes about the last election and his plans for the future.

March 12, 2013
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