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White House: Leaked immigration plan just a backup
Associated Press
The White House downplay the leaked proposal as merely backup if lawmakers fail to come up with an overhaul
Marco Rubio threatens White House leaked immigration bill would be “dead on arrival”
Katie McDonough
While Congress struggles to compromise, an impatient White House's draft legislation was leaked on Sunday
Obama aide seeks to honor Ted Kennedy’s legacy with immigration reform
Julie Pace
Cecilia Munoz, Obama's chief domestic policy adviser, thinks "completing the journey" has never been so possible
Millennials will save us!
David D. Burstein
Boomers, Gen Xers and pundits like Thomas Friedman have it wrong: Gen Y's pragmatic idealism can create real change
Think Hagel’s bad? Just wait until there’s a Supreme Court opening
Jonathan Bernstein
The Hagel battle is actually a dry run for the next justice fight -- and it's clear that the GOP will filibuster
Kerry says he’ll try to convince Assad to step down
Faine Greenwood
The new secretary of state claims that the Syrian president "must end" his country's bloody civil war
The increasingly ridiculous Hagel opposition
Alex Pareene
Republicans block a vote for no reason and the entire conservative media repeats an untrue smear
Afghan army trains women for special forces
Rahim Faiez
Women are breaking new ground in an ultraconservative society and filling a vacuum left by international forces
Senate’s top Democrat hits GOP for blocking Hagel
Richard Lardner
Harry Reid called it "shocking" and "tragic" that Republicans are attempting to block Hagel's confirmation
Stop calling us wives and moms
Tracy Clark-Flory
A petition calls on President Obama to drop his retro rhetoric about women
Are liberals being hypocrites about Obama’s wars?
Alex Pareene
Maybe liberals don't criticize Obama's foreign policy because American liberalism has always been pro-intervention
Making gun control inevitable
Kerry Eleveld
Gay equality and immigration – recent lightning rods – now have traction. There’s a lesson here for gun reform
Right-wing conspiracy alert: Google is working for Obama
Andrew Leonard
A conservative nightmare: Every time you use Gmail, you're helping the left consolidate power
Senators take up immigration in first hearing
Erica Werner
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony from Janet Napolitano, Jose Antonio Vargas and others
Marco Rubio humiliates himself
Paul Waldman
It wasn't his scrambling for a bottle of water Tuesday night. It was his insipid speech mixing calumny and cliché
NATO airstrike kills 9 civilians in Afghanistan
Associated Press
The attack, which killed 5 children, came as Obama announced plans with withdraw 34,000 troops by 2014
Who gains from Rand Paul’s speech?
Alex Seitz-Wald
One reason to have a Tea Party SOTU response: $$$
Rand Paul’s Tea Party rebuttal to the State of the Union
Jillian Rayfield
Read Sen. Rand Paul's Tea Party response to Obama's State of the Union address
World reacts to North Korea’s nuclear test
Freya Petersen, Jessica Phelan
Obama calls North Korea's third nuclear test a "threat to US national security" and hints at international response
Obama calls NKorea test “highly provocative”
Associated Press
North Korea said its nuclear test aimed at coping with "ferocious" U.S. hostility
North Korea admits to carrying out third nuclear test
Faine Greenwood, Geoffrey Cain
The admission came hours after seismologists detected a 4.9 earthquake in South Korea
McCain is Obama’s unwitting ally
Steve Kornacki
On the Hagel nomination, John McCain is providing an important assist to the man who beat him in 2008
Has Obama kept his open-government pledge?
Jennifer LaFleur
A consortium of right-to-know groups finds that "it's [been] a mixed bag"
Dick Cheney helps his cousin
Joan Walsh
His trashing the president reminds liberals that Obama isn’t quite “Cheney-lite” on national security. Updated
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