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U.S. nurses: Our hospitals are unprepared for Ebola

Timothy McGrath
Healthcare workers on the front lines are sounding an alarm (of sorts) about our preparedness to treat the disease

Tea Party’s talking-point robot: How Tom Cotton’s unchallenged lies could tip Senate control

Simon Maloy
Arkansas' Tom Cotton is a sophisticated anti-Obama machine -- and in his battle with Mark Pryor the stakes are high

Guantanamo’s horrifying irony: How Bush’s shadow looms over shutting it down

Simon Maloy
Obama is mulling executive action to close Gitmo -- and he may have to trade one ugly Bush legacy for another

Upside-down Kansas, other surprises, enliven races

Charles Babington

Is race genetic?

Laura Miller
Advances in genealogy and DNA analysis tell surprising and disturbing stories about the heritage we think we know

“When that cop killed Michael Brown, and when George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin, they were killing Barack Obama”

Scott Timberg
Greil Marcus explains why the sick new American racism is only getting worse, and explores his brilliant new book

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Warren on Barack Obama: “They protected Wall Street. Not families who were losing their homes. Not people who lost their jobs. And it happened over and over and over”

Thomas Frank
"There has not been nearly enough change," she tells Salon, taking on Obama failures, lobbyists, tuition. So 2016?

America’s flip-flop foreign policy: Rand Paul, Hillary Clinton and the new millennial voter

Matthew Rozsa
Previously, politicians fought to be seen as more hawkish than their opponents. Here's why those days are over

Chuck Todd “disqualifies” Grimes: A candidate’s minor stumble gets caught up in the narrative

Simon Maloy
If an awkward remark about Obama is "disqualifying" for Grimes, what about McConnell's absurd lies about Obamacare?

GOP’s scheme to frighten America: 4-point plan of Ebola, Secret Service, Border, ISIS

Jim Newell
How Republicans plan to shoehorn fear over 4 very loosely related things through a lens of White House incompetence

“The end of the cringe”: Paul Krugman sounds off on progressive change in the Obama era

Luke Brinker
The economist defends Obama -- and proposes a theory of what's behind the administration's achievements

10 surprising facts about the history of pot

Keri Blakinger
Urban legend has it that the term "420" refers to a 1970s police code. The truth is stranger than fiction

“The Daily Show” mocks GOP’s latest effort to court women

Joanna Rothkopf
Senior Women's Issues Correspondent Kristen Schaal says the party knows what women care about: Menfolk!

GOP’s full-blown panic: Why they’re pushing national security again

Heather Digby Parton
Look closely and you'll see the old Republican strategy of attacking Dems on defense is back. Here's the reason why

Bill Maher’s atheist values: Why progressives must defend enlightenment, critique religious extremism

Jeffrey Tayler
"Real Time" fall-out illustrates a debate between theocracy and rule of law and reason. Liberals must choose a side

7 disturbing facts about the Koch brothers’ civil rights history

Terrell Jermaine Starr
A new report reveals the billionaires' union-busting efforts have hurt African American mobility, and so much worse

Mark Halperin’s legacy of doom: Why Drudge’s biggest fan keeps getting promoted

Heather Digby Parton
For a million bucks Bloomberg Politics has just hired the king of bad predictions, conventional wisdom -- and worse

Shocker: Poll shows Alison Grimes with edge over Mitch McConnell

Luke Brinker
After a string of polls showing the Republican leader ahead, a respected poll finds him suddenly behind

A message to American media: Stop spreading Ebola fear and start being ashamed

Joanna Rothkopf
West Africa is crumbling and American media is worried about politics... Seriously?

Joni Ernst’s extremist history: Iowa’s GOP Senate candidate supported prison for Obamacare officials

Simon Maloy
Ernst said she'd back a crazy bill to nullify the ACA and jail bureaucrats. So why are we talking about chickens?

“Immoral”: Obama ally blasts president’s unauthorized war in Iraq and Syria

Luke Brinker
Sen. Tim Kaine decries the administration's decision to wage an air war without congressional approval

The sex scandal that wrecked American politics

Laura Miller
The birth of gotcha journalism and empty-suit candidates can be traced back to Gary Hart's ill-fated boat trip

Torture is the new normal in Tibet

James Tapper
A 64-year-old woman is just the latest Tibetan to be brutalized at the hands of Chinese authorities

Is Bernie Sanders really all there is? Lessons from Pat Robertson’s insurgency

Paul Rosenberg
If Warren sits 2016 out, an unelectable longshot may be liberals' only hope. Let's take a lesson from Pat Robertson
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