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Will Elizabeth Warren's ability to connect with ordinary people be enough to win her a Massachusetts seat in the Senate?

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

The Keystone fight showed ordinary Nebraskans their power. Will their unlikely alliance stick?

Weapons manufacturing in America is still going strong, even if the wisdom or morality of arms deals is rarely discussed.

If all underwater mortgages were written down to market value and refinanced, it would add $71 billion a year to the economy and create 1 million jobs.

Her Senate testimony made her into a feminist icon, but her new book underscores her enduring career as a professor and writer.

Facing a primary challenger might force Obama to embrace progressive ideals—and he can’t win 2012 if he doesn’t.

Former Senator Mark Hatfield was a hero to many of us who consider ourselves "New Evangelicals."

As contradictory as the gospel truths of California's digerati are the dogmas of West Coast evangelicalism, a melding of Jefferson and Jesus.

Could the Senate start getting things done, if only legislators didn't have to face filibuster threats? This week on The Breakdown: the history of the filibuster, and how to get rid of it.