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Healthcare Reform

Salon's prescriptions

How to improve the reform legislation -- without scrapping it and starting over
Emily Holleman
Healthcare Reform

GOP pledges healthcare delay

Opposition threatens to stop "train wreck" reform bill
Crime

Prison population: First drop since '72

"Reversal of a trend that's been going on for more than a generation"
JEFF CARLTON
Barack Obama

Candidate flip, president flop

Obama crushes a medication policy he'd vowed to endorse. Such bogus election-year promises undermine democracy
David Sirota
Healthcare Reform

White House condescension on healthcare wears thin

The president's base won't easily forget being talked down to
Darren Hutchinson
Bank bailouts

Happy holidays from the banks

Obama stands by as Wall Street lives it up and the rest of America struggles
Michael Winship

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A first look at the new Senate healthcare bill

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DNC pounces on GOP senators

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Friday, Dec 18, 2009 19:36 EST

Iraq accuses Iran of seizing oil well near border

Iraq claims that Iranian soldiers have seized an oil well near to the two nations' disputed border.
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Friday, Dec 18, 2009 17:54 EST

Debt merry-go-round

Fannie, Freddie, AIG and GMAC coming around again for more of our tax dollars
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Friday, Dec 18, 2009 17:48 EST

Iraq: Iran oil well takeover violated sovereignty

A group of armed Iranians have seized an Iraqi oil platform.
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Friday, Dec 18, 2009 16:19 EST

Joe Wilson's fame lives on

The South Carolina Republican who shouted at President Obama makes some end-of-year lists
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Friday, Dec 18, 2009 14:53 EST

Move south, be happy

Warmer climes, bigger smiles, according to new study
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Friday, Dec 18, 2009 12:49 EST

Being anti-life in defense of pro-life

Nelson affirms the old saw about caring about the beginning and end of life -- but little in between
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Friday, Dec 18, 2009 12:45 EST

"It's unfair"

Howard Dean on why he doesn't support the Senate bill, which he calls "hocus pocus" reform
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Friday, Dec 18, 2009 12:15 EST

Blue Dog vulnerability in 2010

Crystal Ball's Isaac Woods looks at how many, and which, Blue Dogs might be in trouble next year
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Friday, Dec 18, 2009 10:47 EST

Why do Republicans hate our troops?

If shoe were on other foot, you know GOPers would be asking the same of Democrats
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Friday, Dec 18, 2009 09:54 EST

MoveOn raises $1M from Lieberman ad

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Friday, Dec 18, 2009 09:19 EST

A surge of dollars in Afghanistan

Total cost of the war could hit $1 trillion
By Jo Comerford
Friday, Dec 18, 2009 08:27 EST

Obama: Imperfect climate deal better than none

President will combat global warming with the deal he has, not the deal he wishes he had
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Friday, Dec 18, 2009 05:19 EST

The underlying divisions in the healthcare debate

Your view of corporatism will play a large role in whether you support the bill
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Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 19:18 EST

Thank you, Sen. Franken

Senate Dems are saying he stifled Joe Lieberman to keep debate on track. Liberals are happy, whatever the reason Video
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Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 18:18 EST

Wrong, Keith

Olbermann's prescription for protesting the insurance mandate -- don't buy insurance -- is nuts Video
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Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 18:15 EST

Woman charged in murder of pregnant friend

Charges filed in bizarre, sad case of woman who killed pregnant friend and cut out her fetus
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Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 17:14 EST

Big Dog backs reform bill

Clinton speaks up in favor of passing reform plan
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Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 14:59 EST

No closure-cloture deal

NE senator and healthcare reform holdout denies he was threatened with base closure
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Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 14:01 EST

Injured abroad, neglected at home

Investigation: Civilian workers fight losing battle against insurers -- with little government support
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Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 13:53 EST

The Great Recession

Obama's invoked the FDR analogy in a much more direct, rhetorical way
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Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 13:36 EST

Bengals' Henry dies day after dispute

Troubled receiver killed after falling from pickup during fight with his fiancee, police say
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Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 12:12 EST

Dean's diagnosis

Former presidential candidate and DNC chair uses prime WaPo space to oppose HCR bill
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Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 11:18 EST

Slouching toward healthcare reform

The long, painful road to a disappointing deal
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