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If the Supreme Court holds outrageously restrictive new abortion laws, abortion will effectively be impossible to obtain in states like Kansas and South Dakota—while technically leaving Roe on the books.

Republicans walked away from a budget deal not because cuts weren’t steep enough but because they included tax increases on the wealthiest. If they’re drawing a line in the sand, President Obama must, too.

A trove of documents reveals the vast procorporate strategy of this powerful right-wing group.

The fight to counter LePage’s extremism is gaining support not only among progressives in the state but within the Republican Party too.

Could black Americans follow Catholics and white Southerners in drifting away from the Democrats?

According to John Nichols, conservative governors' destructive budget-cutting and brutal attitude toward public sector unions have alienated the public. 

Can the fractious elements of the Republican party—from tea party fanatics to fiscal hawks and the religious right—come together behind a single candidate?

If the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has its way, patients across the country will suffer a broad-spectrum loss of rights.

Not one of the candidates for the GOP presidential nomination who debated Monday night rose to a point of seriousness in addressing the nation’s grievous problems. 

How I wish that Ben Bernanke would get caught e-mailing photos of his underwear-clad groin.