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Will Bezos’ Washington Post be a mouthpiece?

Jonathan D. Salant
Amazon's ranking among the country's highest spending lobby groups could create ethical conflicts

Mitch McConnell gets barbecued: Politics at its weirdest, Kentucky-style

Brian Weinberg
Behind the scenes at Fancy Farm, the Kentucky picnic that might be the oddest day in American politics

Ka-ching we can believe in

Joan Walsh
As Obama staffers get rich pushing corporations and conservative politicians, cynicism about politics soars

Florida lawmakers will review “Stand Your Ground” law

Jillian Rayfield
Republican leadership in the state legislature announced that it will hold hearings on the law this fall

Give Manning and Snowden the Nobel Peace Prize

Andrew O'Hehir
If the Nobel committee had any guts, it would honor America's leakers and deliver a smackdown to the security state

All the pundits are wrong

Jonathan Bernstein
Conventional wisdom says the GOP has a grip on the House, but can't win the White House. Here's why both are wrong

Meet the Bush-loving, military women-fearing, likely new senator

Jillian Rayfield
Rep. Tom Cotton once argued against women serving in the infantry because their "nature" could "impair" the mission

Republicans keep squabbling over Obamacare

Jillian Rayfield
The party is split over a push by tea party senators to shut down the government in order to defund the law

Pentagon will be hit hard by next round of sequester cuts

Andrew Taylor, Donna Cassata
An additional $20 billion in budget cuts is set to hit the Defense Department in 2014

America’s war on patriots

David Sirota
To expose U.S. war crimes and criminals is not to be lauded as a hero, but deemed a criminal with a long sentence

Amazon is worse than Walmart

Daniel D'Addario
The company's war on bookstores and book culture is increasingly supported by, yes, the Obama administration

Sociopathic centrists beg Obama for “entitlement cuts” as Americans starve

Alex Pareene
In the midst of mass poverty, powerful people still demand social insurance cuts. Obama may have stopped listening

Binders full of women lives on

Joey Cosco
Mitt Romney is ready to forget his botched debate answer on equal pay. Thankfully, the Internet never will

Bad things should happen to bad people!

Richard H. Smith
We feel better when politicians, athletes and others we despise fail — and celebrating that helps makes us human

Is the bully pulpit dead?

Jonathan Bernstein
Barack Obama keeps giving speeches and the result is predictably the same. Here’s why he should keep trying

Does George Zimmerman’s car hero story add up?

Alex Seitz-Wald
These conspiracy theorists are convinced Trayvon Martin's killer staged a car crash to boost his beleaguered image

The day the right lost the economic argument

Michael Lind
President Obama's speech clinched the case against Norquist-style austerity — and won over the likes of USA Today

Al Franken’s final punchline

Alex Seitz-Wald
A brash, rowdy comic becomes a senator — and sheds his old, funny persona. Is "serious Al Franken" for real?

Poll: Republicans like Zimmerman more than they do President Obama

Alex Seitz-Wald
A new poll finds the man who killed Trayvon Martin is more popular than the president among GOP voters

Beltway hacks Cillizza and Milbank solve the economy!

Alex Pareene
Post punditry experts Chris Cillizza and Dana Milbank demand bold new ideas from the president, like debt reduction

Student loan deal likely to pass in the House

Philip Elliott
The Senate has approved a compromise to reduce student loan rates, which doubled after congressional inaction

We used to care about killing people

Mugambi Jouet
Democrats once were anti-death penalty. Then Michael Dukakis's misfortune began a downward spiral toward immorality

Obama: Washington has “taken its eye off the ball” on the economy

Darlene Superville
On Wednesday, the president blamed "phony scandals" for distracting government from the plight of the middle class

Michelle Obama shifts from obesity to guns

Darlene Superville
The First Lady made a speech emphasizing the need to protect kids from gun violence
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