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It’s the height of hypocrisy: They call for repeal of the law but plead for its dollars on behalf of constituents.

That’s right, the evangelist's crusade against depravity took him straight to New York City porn parlors. It looks like he studied their products closely.

Anti-choicers think what they believe determines how abortion restrictions are enforced. They're dangerously wrong.

A new history of the party is too close to its subject, and misses the human drama.

The cameras no longer look at us because we’re famous; we’re famous because they look at us to death.

With a two-seat gain while chair of the DSCC and a successful effort to get a budget through the Senate under her belt, Patty Murray has become a major force in the Senate.

Gun control advocates can take a page from Harry Truman’s long struggle for public health insurance. 

It’s not 1945 anymore. Humanity needs to get itself together.

With overfishing, acidification and garbage-ification, the seven seas aren’t what they once were.

Like defense attorneys for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, I did my best to represent the ‘shoe-bomber,’ Richard Reid, when I was assigned to his case. But many less notorious defendants are not so lucky.