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Republicans are fighting Dodd-Frank's mechanism for dismantling failing financial firms.

With Mitt Romney’s Super-PAC limo now on cruise control to victory at the GOP convention, voters are left with only two reasons to vote against Barack Obama.

“Hell” in Iowa; Ron Paul's bedfellows

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Awash in Super PAC money, defined by negative TV ads, degraded by dumbed-down media and poisoned by voter suppression—this is not what democracy looks like.

The insurance program is facing its toughest challenges just as the health reform law is poised to expand eligibility for millions of Americans.

Ever notice that anytime anyone tells the truth in the contest for the Republican nomination, a new scandal erupts?

A powerful, bipartisan coalition of deficit hawks has manufactured a center-right consensus that dominates the Beltway.

Is a vote for Bachmann actually a vote for her husband?

Obama must stop searching for common ground—and start defining higher ground.