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Mar 15, 2010  Conservatives Gather for Annual Thugfest brief
  The Facts? | Tea Party Chic | Dodd Folds brief
Mar 1, 2010  Talking Financial Reform to Death brief
  Fire Sale | Lobbyists Rule | Minority Rules brief
Feb 15, 2010  Can Obama Get His Groove Back? brief
  Activist Judges and Corporate Cash brief
Feb 1, 2010  Time for Democrats to Deliver for Working Americans brief
  Why Change is a Challenge brief
  Rendering Justice at Bagram brief
Jan 1, 2010  Replaying the Great Game brief
  Talking Back to My TV brief
Dec 1, 2009  A New Cold War in a Small Tropical Country brief
Nov 15, 2009  A New Avenue to Middle East Peace? brief
  The Afghan Dilemma|Blaming Obama|Intelligence as an Option|Five Years and Five Billion brief
Nov 1, 2009  Democrats Might Learn Something From Dirty Dancing Tom DeLay brief
  Obama receives the Nobel Peace Prize brief
  Last Word on Last Rights|States' Rights|Senate Rites of Passage|Foreign Policy Roadblock brief
Oct 15, 2009  Bush's Crimes and Obama's Lawyers brief
  Do the Numbers | Guns and Cars brief
Oct 1, 2009  A Three Percent Solution for Minority Voters brief
  Cracking Acorn | Banana Republican Alert | Gonzo Justice brief
Sep 15, 2009  The Senator Takes on Talking Points brief
  Kennedy Enduring brief
Sep 1, 2009  Preying on Fear and Predicting the Final Solution brief
  Prelude to an Obama Peace Plan brief
Aug 1, 2009  House Republicans Respond to Climate Legislation brief
  Health Care Reform Holiday | Help Wanted? | Beware the Activist Judge brief
Jul 15, 2009  Will Health Care Reform Survive Summer In the Senate? brief
  Guns and Butter | Maxed Out | Drug Money | Senators on the Move | Prescription Foods brief
Jul 1, 2009  Defending the Ancien Régime brief
  Republicans Are Revolting | Much Ado About… | No Worries brief
Jun 15, 2009  You Don't Need a Weatherman brief
  Cheney Agonistes brief
Jun 1, 2009  In the Wrong Place for a Long Time brief
  Judge Not/Attacking the Speaker brief
May 15, 2009  Republicans Shocked, Shocked at Partisan Behavior of Democrats brief
  Bomb Iran? | Cram-Down Crammed Down brief
May 1, 2009  Obama's Economic Team Banks 
On Wall Street brief
  The Contraception Lottery | Send in the Clowns | Senatorial Courtesy brief
Apr 15, 2009  Bob Gates vs. Lockheed Martin brief
  Watchdog Bites | Iron Law of Wages | Critical Mass of Crazy | Race to the Bottom brief
Apr 1, 2009  No News Is Bad News brief
  Jindal Agenda? brief
Mar 15, 2009  The GOP Finds New Old White Guys to Take George W.'s Place brief
  Al-Haramain v. Obama | Economic Dunkirk brief
Mar 1, 2009  Bankrupt Bankers and Insolvent Banks brief
  Enough Pentagon Spending? | Of Mice and Men | Texas Hold 'em | He's Back brief
Feb 15, 2009  A Race to Repair the Nation brief
  Stimulated Opposition | The "N" Word brief
Feb 1, 2009  Filibuster Bluster, or New Rules For the Senate? brief
  Bair's Bailout Plan | Turning the Corner on Torture brief
Jan 15, 2009  Dismantling Environmental Protections and Workers' Rights brief
  The "A-Word" | J Street Position? | An American War | Death of a Mud Salesman brief
Jan 1, 2009  A World-Class Pentagon Budget brief
  Economic Treason | Intelligence Failure? | Liars' Club brief
Dec 1, 2008  Evangelicals and the Republican Party brief
  Roubini's Crystal Ball | Prosecuting the Bushies (If Not Bush) brief
Nov 15, 2008  The Black Vote in a Red State brief
  Sarah Steals the Show | Newt Eyes 2012 | Republicans Smear a Scholar brief
Nov 1, 2008  What's Driving McCain's Decline? brief
  McCain Advisers Disappeared | Swamped by Swaps | Time to Tax Securities Transactions? brief
Oct 15, 2008  Is the Bailout Plan the Beginning, Or the End, of the Economic Collapse? brief
  The McCain Campaign Gets Sleazy | Give or Take $100 Million brief
Oct 1, 2008  Pied Piper of the Christian Right brief
Sep 15, 2008  John McCain as a Man of the Shifting Political Moment brief
  The Un-Vetted Veep Choice brief
Sep 1, 2008  John McCain and Dick Cheney Bait the Bear brief
  Ralph Reed: Crook and McCain Money Man | Rev. Hagee Plays Nice | Obama Rethinks Ethanol brief
Aug 1, 2008  Ethanol, Food Prices and the Environment brief
  Expanding Medicare to Cover Everyone | Phil Gramm Finally Gets the Boot brief
  Privatizing Profits and Socializing Loss brief
Jul 15, 2008  Two Congressional Races and One Disgraced Lobbyist brief
  The FISA Giveaway | Torture Becomes Routine | Conservatives Sweating About an Obama Court brief
Jul 1, 2008  Henry Waxman Returns to Jack Abramoff brief
  A Detainee Addresses Congress | Obama's Adviser Loves Wal-Mart | "Code Words" About Israel brief
Jun 15, 2008  A Superior Health Care System Without the Middleman brief
  McCain's Gramm Problem | Goodbye to All Those Pastors brief
  A Man, a Plan, a Mandate? brief
Jun 1, 2008  Using Academic Freedom to Keep God in the Science Classroom brief
  Republican Hypocrisy on "Negotiating with Terrorists" | How Bush Bungled Iranian Diplomacy brief
May 15, 2008  A Missile Defense Boondoggle Fueled by Money brief
  Congress Looks for Accountability on U.S. Torture Policy brief
May 1, 2008  War Games: The Democrats vs. Petraeus brief
  Emerging Bipartisan Consensus: The Iraq War is a "Major Debacle" brief
Apr 15, 2008  Winning Ugly in Texas and Sparring in Pennsylvania brief
  Phil Gramm is John McCain's Economic Brain brief
Apr 1, 2008  John McCain's Minister of War brief
  High-Living Ministers | Cheney Sticks to His Story | Tracking Down White House E-Mails brief
Mar 15, 2008  It's Time to Build a New Corporate Democracy brief
  Stickin' (It) to the Union brief
Mar 1, 2008  Selling a Military Budget That Will "Make the Rubble Bounce" brief
  Hillary, the Movie | Gingrich Foresees an Electoral Catastrophe for GOP brief
Feb 15, 2008  Will the Other Mayor of New York Run? brief
  The Conservative Crackup | Kucinich's Seat in Trouble | Bush's Doublespeak on Earmarks brief
Feb 1, 2008  Mike Huckabee's New Covenant brief
  Ralph Reed, John McCain and CNN brief
  How Much Longer in Iraq? | The Military's Lower Standards for Recruits | An EPA Whitewash brief
Jan 15, 2008  By Stalling, Bush Prevails Again on Global Warming brief
  Republican Primaries Focus on Immigration | What's Really Going on in Pakistan brief
Jan 1, 2008  Is Darwin Losing the Battle With God? brief
  Where Have All the E-Mails Gone? brief
Dec 1, 2007  'Twilight Politics' in the Shadow of the Blackwater Scandal brief
Nov 15, 2007  Did Karl Rove Help Send an Innocent Man to Jail? brief
  Safe, Secular Thompson? | Here Comes Huckabee | Giuliani's Torture Talk | CLOSing Argument brief
Nov 1, 2007  United Nations Opponents All at Sea Over Convention brief
  Karl Rove's Dirty Politics in Alabama brief
Oct 15, 2007  On Children's Health Care and Iraq War Funding brief
  One Trillion Dollars? | Congress Kicks Back on War Funding | Hillary's Iran Flip-Flop brief
Oct 1, 2007  When Anti-Terror Justice Runs Amok brief
  Judging Judge Mukasey brief
Sep 15, 2007  A $20 Billion Solution to an Intractable Problem brief
  The Iran Hawks are Circling | Rep. Lewis's (Mis)Appropriations brief
Sep 1, 2007  Where Karl Rove Went Wrong brief
  Requiem for a Lightweight | Does Rove's Departure Strengthen Cheney's Hand? brief
Aug 1, 2007  High Crimes and Misdemeanors brief
  A Vast Rightwing Conspiracy? | Bush Clips SCHIP brief
Jul 15, 2007  A Long-Ball Hitter Gets Benched brief
  The D.C. Madam Strikes Again | McCain Is in Trouble | It Ain't Easy Being the Veep brief
Jul 1, 2007  Coming to a Theater Near You: Five Years in Guantánamo brief
  Vice Presidential Hubris | Tony Blair to the Rescue? brief
Jun 15, 2007  Ethanol Is the Agricultural Equivalent of Holy Water brief
  Liberating Libby | Bush's European Vacation | Faith-Based Legal Counsel brief
Jun 1, 2007  Congress Challenges Bush's Order to Lock Away Presidential Records brief
  Senatorial Courtesy | Iraqi Flight Risk brief
May 15, 2007  Gagged National-Security-Letter Recipients Find Their Voice brief
  Rove's Spotty Record Under Oath | Not Every Deputy Attorney General Lacks Integrity brief
May 1, 2007  The Army's Abuse of Its Own Extends Far Beyond Walter Reed brief
  Fight Firearms with Firearms | The Religious Right Hates the Hate Crimes Bill brief
Apr 15, 2007  Putting Fairness Back into America's Tax System brief
  New York's Novel Plan | A Carbon Problem for GM | Judging CEOs by Their Houses brief
Apr 1, 2007  The Legal Muscle Leading the Fight to End the Separation of Church and State brief
  Tom DeLay's Unsolicited Advice | The Foreclosure Epidemic | An Iraq Fallacy brief
Mar 15, 2007  The End of Illegal Domestic Spying? Don't Count on It brief
  The Bush Administration Has Two Full-Fledged Scandals on Its Hands | More on Voting Reform brief
Mar 1, 2007  Congress Just Says No to an Iraq War Escalation brief
  A Republican Legal Blacklist | Journalism Is a Dangerous Job | The Future of Guantánamo brief
Feb 15, 2007  Despite Cheney's Absence, His Influence Looms Over Complex CIA Leak Trial brief
  Remembering Molly Ivins | Strange Bedfellows | Florida Dumps Electronic Voting brief
Feb 1, 2007  "Pillar of Democracy" May Be Worse Than Useless brief
  Reviewing the First 100 Hours | Spoiling for a Fight With Iran | Turn Down the Heat! brief
Jan 15, 2007  Our Election System Is Broken. Can the New Congress Fix It? brief
  Weird Weather | Will Rudy Run? | Ethics Committee Gets Back to Work brief
Jan 1, 2007  The U.S. Can't Bring Peace to Iraq, But Muslim Nations Can brief
  Lobbyists Love Democrats! | Wolfowitz Wears Out His World Bank Welcome | Joeverthrown brief
Dec 1, 2006  Progressives Must Turn Their Attention to the States brief
Nov 15, 2006  The People's Case for Impeaching Bush brief
  Busting the Myth of a Conservative Triumph | The Anti-Scandal Vote | Blame Enough for All brief
Nov 1, 2006  Maxed-Out Families and the Fading American Dream brief
  Is There a Scandal in the House? | A Run for Their Money | Big Bucks Bob brief
Oct 15, 2006  The GOP Playbook: How to Steal the Vote brief
  Electoral Fraud: A Reading List  
  An October Surprise at the Pump? | Thatcherites No Longer | Mark Foley's Money brief
Oct 1, 2006  The Elephant in the Polling Booth brief
  McCain Sells Out | Wal-Mart Gets Political | Capitol Hill Is an FBI Crime Scene brief
Sep 15, 2006  An Old Schism Haunts the 9/11 Commission brief
  The Congressional Art of Doing Nothing | Replacing Tom DeLay | Trouble A'Brewing brief
  Should ABC Have Yanked The Path to 9/11? brief
Sep 1, 2006  Big Money vs. Grassroots: The Fight For the Heart of the Democratic Party brief
  Deadlock Over Immigration | An Erstwhile Democrat | The Michigan Court Decision brief
Aug 1, 2006  What Does a Dying U.S. Auto Industry Mean for the Rest of America? brief
  Do-Nothing Foreign Policy | Election Ammunition | Republican Airwaves brief
Jul 15, 2006  America's Curious Hatred of the United Nations brief
  Bush Rebuked by High Court | Voting Down Voting Rights | "Darfur Is Dying" brief
Jul 1, 2006  An Ancient Group's Struggle Provides Clues To the Future of the Middle East brief
  Stalling on Haditha | Lieberman's Lonely Road | Our Endangered National Parks brief
Jun 15, 2006  Can the Democrats Make Common Cause With Evangelical Voters? brief
  Much Ado About the Inheritance Tax | Replacing "Duke" | Corruption Investigation Widens brief
Jun 1, 2006  How Invading Iraq Has Set Back Democracy In the Middle East brief
  How Low Can Bush Go? | Scandal Stalks the Democrats | Corrupt Contracts brief
May 15, 2006  Bush Relatives Keep Cashing In With Military Contracts brief
  What a Gas! | Ohio's Voting Meltdown | Trust the Media? Trust Your Government? brief
May 1, 2006  "Good Riddance" to Gale Norton, but the Problems at Interior Remain brief
  Fantasy vs. Reality in the Federal Budget brief
  At Arm's Length | The Immigration Debate Misses the Point | Osama's Swing Voters? brief
Apr 15, 2006  One Year After a Major Realignment, The Intelligence Community Is in Disarray brief
  Erasing History at the National Archives brief
  Replacing DeLay | The Immigration Debate Moves to the Streets | Voting in New Orleans brief
Apr 1, 2006  Let's Save Our Democracy by Getting Money Out of Politics brief
Mar 15, 2006  The Dubai Ports Deal and Our American Ship of State brief
  Congress Talks Reform, Doesn't Act | Bush and Torture | State Secrets Are Piling Up brief
Mar 1, 2006  Do You Know How Your Vote Will Be Counted? brief
  The Agenda Behind Bush's Budget | FEMA's Fault? | Minority Report brief
Feb 15, 2006  Our "Healthy" Economy Is Heading for Trouble brief
  Lay Off Abramoff | Broken Promises to New Orleans | Phony Reformers brief
Feb 1, 2006  After Tom DeLay: The Corruption Eruption Continues brief
  Ney Steps Down | The Sudden Popularity of Lobbying Reform | All Talk, No Answers brief
Jan 15, 2006  The New Bush Doctrine: Don't Ask, Don't Tell—Just Do It brief
  DeLaying the Inevitable | Abramoff Rolls Over | The Real Sam Alito brief
Jan 1, 2006  Senators Beat the Stock Market—and Get Rich—With Insider Information brief
  Ben A. Franklin, 1927-2005 brief
Dec 1, 2005  Libby Gets His Comeuppance—But the Press Still Needs a Federal Shield Law brief
Nov 15, 2005  Why George W. Bush Is Really Our King brief
  Senate Shutdown Showdown | The Trouble With Alito | DeLay Goes Judge Shopping brief
Nov 1, 2005  The Politics (and Profits) of Information: The 9/11 Commission One Year Later brief
  The Politics of Arm Twisting | Un-American Girl? | Dissent in the G.O.P. brief
Oct 15, 2005  Cronyism Is Sinking the Ship of State brief
  The Unpopularity of Harriet Miers | DeLay Indicted | A Wrist-Slap for Bush & Co. brief
Oct 1, 2005  President Bush's Penchant for Secrecy Is Moving Us Toward a Closed Society brief
  DeLay's Pals Indicted (Again) | Porked Out | Chasing Hurricane Dollars | Tancredo Tantrum brief
Sep 15, 2005  Hurricane Katrina: Destroying Lives, Destroying Illusions brief
  Judging John Roberts | Help From Abroad | Public to Democrats: Speak Up! | Liberal Hawks brief
Sep 1, 2005  Cindy Sheehan's Texas Vigil brief
  Cindy and the Media | Talk of Iraq Withdrawal in Congress | It's Getting Hot in Here brief
Aug 1, 2005  A New Book Smearing Senator Clinton Sells Well brief
Jul 15, 2005  A Multimillion-Dollar Scam Finally Gets Some Close Scrutiny brief
Jul 1, 2005  A Coming Energy Crisis Is Being Ignored brief
  Pruning the Patriot Act | Unpopularity Contest | P.B.S. Reprieve | Tongues Wag in Congress brief
Jun 15, 2005  Someone Needs to Keep Focused On Ballot Fraud—So We Are brief
  Destroying the Filibuster in Order to Save It | In Defense of Anonymous Sources brief
Jun 1, 2005  The Fifth Black Senator in U.S. History Makes F.D.R. His Icon brief
  The Senate Showdown | Russia's Loose Nukes | Ford Moving Up? | Counting Votes in Miami brief
May 15, 2005  A Do-Nothing U.S. Congress Makes Local Government More Important brief
  GOP Scrutinizes CBP | Amtrak Hits the Breaks | More DeLay | Bush Cuts His Own Taxes brief
May 1, 2005  In the Bush Administration, Treaties Ain't Sweeties brief
  Follow the Pork | Disciplining DeLay | Toll-Road Inflation | Primetime Perp Walks brief
Apr 15, 2005  It Still Doesn't Work the Way It Should brief
  Au Revoir, Tom DeLay [We Hope] | The Senate's Nuclear Standoff | Let Us Pray brief
Apr 1, 2005  Home From the War: The 200-Year Struggle of Returning Soldiers for Their Rights brief
  Congress Enters the Terri Schiavo Debate | Morally Bankrupt Legislation | Overweight Kids brief
Mar 15, 2005  A Lot of Americans Think We're Off the Track brief
  Crackdown on C.E.O. Crooks | Our "Liberal" Supreme Court? | The Senate's Nuclear Deterrant brief
Mar 1, 2005  A Family's House Is Its Castle—Without a Moat brief
  The Senate's Elder Statesman | Pundits in the Pockets of the White House | BushSpeak brief
Feb 15, 2005  Family Business at the Watergate brief
  Social Security Piratization | Dr. Dean's New Job brief
Feb 1, 2005  How News Is Reported—or Not Reported—Can Make It Worse brief
  Knight Ridder's Verdict: We're Not Winning the War brief
Jan 15, 2005  It's Really the Selectoral or Ejectoral College and Needs to Go brief
  Aid for Tsunami Victims | Good Election News | U.S. to "Disappear" Suspected Terrorists brief
Jan 1, 2005  For the Democrats, Happy Days Aren't Here Again and May Be Far Away brief
Dec 1, 2004  From Tuesday Night to Wednesday Mourning brief
Nov 15, 2004  Mission Finally Accomplished—Four More Years of the Political Right brief
  Newspapers Voted Too | Bad Bets | List of Lies | Mercks Misdeeds | Praise to the Max brief
Nov 1, 2004  The Final Election Finish Line May Be Weeks Away brief
  A Best-Case Scenario | Legacy of Racism | Nixon Strikes Again brief
Oct 15, 2004  American Indians Open a Massive New Museum in Washington brief
  The Debate Season Is Here | Drug Maker Feeling Woozy | $53 Oil brief
Oct 1, 2004  A Reporter Examines Four Decades of Speculation on the Kennedy Assassination brief
  Drug Company Deceptions | "News That Could Be Verse" brief
Sep 15, 2004  With Two Months to Go, the G.O.P. Convention Aired a Lot of Distortions brief
  Bush & Co. Preach the Gospel of Deregulation brief
Sep 1, 2004  Political Cookbooks That Roast the Bush Administration Are Moving Off the Shelves brief
  The Madness of King George | The Interior Department's Coal-Black Hearts brief
Aug 1, 2004  Get Ready to Yawn—"Conventional" Means "Lacking Originality" brief
  Corporate Crooks in the Dock | Health Care Bandits | Outfoxing Fox brief
Jul 15, 2004  A Corporate Free-for-All Becomes a Fee for All brief
  Go Granny D! | The White House Plame Game | Cheney's Potty Mouth | More from Moore brief
Jul 1, 2004  The Memorial Reminiscences Missed the Mess brief
  Excuses for Abuses | Get a Lawyer | "Dumper Stickers" brief
Jun 15, 2004  The Electoral College Is Seen By Many as the Deplorable College brief
  State Governments for Sale | Journalists Confess | Pelosi Lashes Out brief
Jun 1, 2004  American Dereliction of Duty in Iraq Gives World Terrorists Recruiting Posters brief
  Lobbyists in the Bush Camp | Bob Edwards Redux | New Jobs for Two Heroes brief
May 15, 2004  The Fifty Years Since Brown Have Not Solved an American Quandry brief
  Cheney's Secrets | Sierra Club Controversy | Specter Wins, Democracy Loses in Pennsylvania brief
May 1, 2004  Warriors Behind the Scenes Coached the Stars On Stage brief
  Post-Tax-Day Musings | Bob Edwards Gets Axed brief
Apr 15, 2004  Electronic Voting Machines May Cast More Doubts Than Votes brief
  The State of the News Media: Not Good | Bush's Foot Back in Mouth | A Medicare Cover-Up  
Apr 1, 2004  The Nonsense of Twisted Intelligence brief
  Washington CEOs Strike It Rich | Seniors, Doctors Baffled by Medicare | Bush Spoofs  
Mar 15, 2004  Tightening Our Belts—a Major Issue in the 2004 Election Needs Explanation brief
  Nader's Role | Washington Monument Spy-Cam | TV Wasteland  
Mar 1, 2004  From His "Undisclosed Secure Location" Dick Cheney Drags the President Down brief
  Media Merger Mania | Recommended Reading | Bush's Numbers Sink  
Feb 15, 2004  The 2004 Presidential Election Begins brief
  How Corrupt Is Your State? | Nixon Secrets | Appalachian Outrage | G.O.P. Gerrymandering  
Feb 1, 2004  The Family's Profiteering Goes Unobserved brief
  Buying the President | Bush in Space | Paul O'Neill's View | Documents That Shaped America  
Jan 15, 2004  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly brief
  WMD Deception | Anti-Bush Books | What Congress? | Sticking Up for Albright  
Jan 1, 2004  For Bush—and Us—The Devil Is in the Details brief

   
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Selling a Military Budget That Will | Mar. 1, 2008
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A New Book Smearing Hillary Clinton Does Well | Aug. 1, 2005
President Bush's Penchant for Secrecy Is Moving Us Toward a Closed Society | Oct. 1, 2005

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