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The Battle for Healthcare Has Just Begun

Between Tea Party governors’ refusing to expand Medicaid and the attack ads vilifying Obamacare, progressives have a lot of work to do.

But the fact that five justices were nearly willing to strike it down shows just how conservative this Court truly is.

David Frum

He spent his life inside the GOP establishment. Now, he’s on the warpath against the right. What’s gotten into David Frum?

Romney and the "Regressives" want to pull America back to the inequalities of the nineteenth century. 

Lukewarm endorsements and lackluster enthusiasm are making Romney's November odds look slimmer than ever.

Mitt Romney

Bain Capital is part of a system that enriches Wall Street while impoverishing millions.

The Washington Post

The paper had a problem: it needed a blogger to cover conservatives. It wound up with a bigger problem.

A polling station in Florida

If GOP lawmakers get their way, voting will become much more difficult in the Sunshine State.

Obama bends over backwards to accommodate faith groups. It’s time for Democrats to champion separation of church and state instead.

Mosque in Dearborn, Michigan

Assailed by the right as a fiction, anti-Muslim bias is all too real for those who live with it.

Blogs

Jim DeMint’s move to the Heritage Foundation represents the combination of two nationally descredited brands.

December 7, 2012

Over time, Americans have become more open to tax increases.

December 5, 2012

Lawmakers shouldn’t be able to block legislation behind closed doors.

December 3, 2012

The Republican answer to the DREAM Act—the Achieve Act—still falls short of what the GOP needs to win over voters. 

November 28, 2012

It couldn't have been Republicans' demonization of everyone outside their white male base, right?

November 27, 2012

Republicans, meet your real master. Over 60 percent of Grover Norquist’s budget comes from just two billionaire-backed nonprofits. 

November 27, 2012

Obama’s modestly enlightened statement has right-wingers in a tizzy. What would they say about Roosevelt’s proclamations decrying greed and celebrating “our sense of social justice”?

November 21, 2012

Right-wing pundits still don’t get it: Romney's loss was about issues, not identity politics. 

November 20, 2012

In the recent election cycle, the GOP played to racial anxieties the same way Lee Atwater did two decades ago.

November 16, 2012

Fox News thinks secession petitions prove wide dissaproval of President Obama's re-election. An alternate interpretation: the petitioners are nut jobs.

November 15, 2012
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