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President Barack Obama

The GOP's Played-Out Race Card

Republicans are turning to tired, failed strategies in an effort to alienate both black and white voters from President Obama.

Melissa Harris-Perry

The 'Julia' Backlash: Because Americans Like to Pretend They Don't Need Government
Backing policies that enable to women to access health insurance, earn fair wages, pay for college, start a small business: that’s showing respect.
Emily Douglas
Posted May 22 2012 - 6:17pm
Reality Bites Republicans
Political watchdogs like PolitiFact and the Washington Post's "Fact-Checker" are accused of favoring Democrats—but it is the facts themselves that have a liberal bias.
Chris Mooney
Posted May 16 2012 - 4:23pm
The GOP Chooses the Pentagon Over Their Fellow Americans
Take money from food stamps and healthcare for the poor, House Republicans cry, but don't you dare shave the defense industry's profit margins.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Posted May 23 2012 - 10:43am

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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney's Neocon War Cabinet (Election 2012, Foreign Policy, Conservatives and the American Right, US Wars and Military Action)

Judging by his advisers, Romney would embrace Bush’s unilateral interventionism and massive military budgets.

Ari Berman
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren: Yes She Can? (US Politics, Polling and Opinion Surveys, Politics)

Progressives adore her. Conservatives despise her. But it's Massachusetts' fickle independents who'll decide her high-stakes showdown with Scott Brown.

E.J. Graff
Meet the 28 Lawmakers Who Have Quit ALEC This Month (Government, Public Policy, Lobbies)

Legislators who are leaving the corporate front group ALEC deserve applause.

Zaid Jilani
Barack Obama
What Do We See in Obama? (Barack Obama, Election 2012)

As in a Rorschach test, people see in him what they want to see. Why don’t we look at his record?

Gary Younge
The Fight for American Liberalism (The Left)

If their fortunes are ever to revive, liberals must find a way to recapture FDR’s militant and optimistic spirit.

Eric Alterman

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