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Peter Kornbluh on Obama and Cuba, Salamishah Tillet on boycotting marriage, George Zornick on Eric Griego v. Wall Street crooks, plus a new project on poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich and the Institute for Policy Studies.

Conservatives don't really want to get rid of abortion rights? This next Congress, we might just find out.

On a night when Republicans pulled off the largest shift in party power since 1938, they also seemed, paradoxically, to be an endangered species.

The most significant threats may come from the state level: Republicans picked up several governorships, and the Affordable Care Act requires the cooperation of states to set up their own insurance exchanges.

John Nichols on the primary winners and losers, Ari Berman on governor's races, and kudos for Katha Pollitt

The state's incendiary new immigration law has created a police state.