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

“Hell” in Iowa; Ron Paul's bedfellows

Occupy Wall Street isn't just producing art work, it's challenging the boundaries of art and activism.

The fate of America's unions and the fate of our middle class are inextricably intertwined.

The presidential candidate seen as the most likely GOP contender is threatening women's health so he can play a political game with conservative voters.

The GOP has come to believe that they were elected to usher in their radical vision of extreme privatization of the welfare state—which they were not.

This year, the Tea Party didn't get a big turnout for their Tax Day protests. Has this group that has held so much power over Washington seen its peak?

Republicans have created popular anxiety about public services by linking them with highly stigmatized members of our society.

If Democrats engage with Republicans on their absurd proposition to cut Medicare, then we will have a real problem.

Why has the US shifted the official policy toward Yemen's strongman president, Ali Abdullah Saleh?