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While preventing a Republican triumph is imperative, we should have no illusions about Obama.

If he wins, he must use his platform and powers to tackle issues from global warming to nuclear arms control.

In this election and after, we need to write a new story for our changing nation that places care and connection at the center.

In the contest that comes after November, Obama will be on the wrong team.

A Romney presidency would rob progressive movements of the oxygen required to grow deeper and broader roots.

Forget Mitt Romney. With the foreign policy crisis in the Middle East, can the president make it to November 7?

But does his DNC speech signal that Obama will now champion the climate fight? Or was he just telling the Democratic base what they wanted to hear?

Bill Clinton bears as much responsibility as any politician for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

The former DNC chair predicts an Obama victory, says the future of the Supreme Court at stake.

The NRA’s dire warnings that the president is a threat to the Second Amendment are bogus—but profitable.