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Former president Bill Clinton on Nov. 6, 1996.

Can Obama pull a Clinton on the GOP?

Robert Reich
He sees a winning model in Clinton's post-1994 comeback -- but in this economy, it might be tough
President Barack Obama sits with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., as he meets with Republican and Democratic leaders regarding the debt ceiling in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Debt face-off shifts to Congress, bargain in play

Jim Kuhnhenn
Obama asked both party leaders to gauge the temperament of their caucuses and to report back in 24 to 36 hours
President Barack Obama

Are Republicans blowing up their own ’12 playbook?

Steve Kornacki
A bad economy should help the GOP unseat Obama next year -- but maybe not if they force a debt default
FILE -- In this file photo of Thursday, June 16, 2011, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, right, stands with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cantor, who has been participating in bipartisan budget talks headed by Vice President Joe Biden, pulled out today citing an impasse over taxes that required intervention by President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) (AP)

Obama warns GOP leaders: “Don’t call my bluff”

David Espo, Andrew Taylor
The president reportedly abruptly walked out of Wednesday evening's debt negotiations
Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the Lincoln Dinner, an annual fundraising event for the New York GOP, Tuesday, June 14, 2011 in New York. Perry stirred speculation Tuesday that he would seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, championing his state's economy before a packed GOP gathering in New York and telling a television interviewer he would engage in a "thought process" before deciding whether to join the field. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun) (Bill Kostroun)

The Committee to Reelect Barack Obama?

Joan Walsh
The GOP field is so fractured and extremist it helps the president. For now, anyway
Issa is probing whether a fundraising video filmed at the White House violates rules

The hunt for an Obama scandal is on

Natasha Lennard
Armed with subpoena power, a key House Republican takes aim at Obama's reelection campaign
FILE - This undated file photo obtained by The Associated Press shows Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private suspected of being the source of some of the unauthorized classified information disclosed on the WikiLeaks website. Army officials are opening the doors to a Fort Leavenworth prison where WikiLeaks suspect Pfc. Bradley Manning awaits further court proceedings. Manning was moved last week from the Marine brig in Quantico, Va., to the Joint Regional Correctional Facility in Kansas amid criticism over his treatment and confinement. (AP Photo, File) (AP)

UN torture official accuses US of rule violations

Glenn Greenwald
Obsolete doctrines from 2006: U.N. rules, treaty obligations, and protection of New Deal entitlement programs

Welcome to the second age of decolonialization

Michael Lind
South Sudan's independence is a step toward borders in Africa, Asia and the Middle East that actually make sense
A Pakistani army soldier takes a position during a military operation against militants in Pakistan's Khurram tribal region, Sunday, July 10, 2011. A military operation in Kurram tribal region has been launched to clear the area of terrorists involved in various terrorist activities, including kidnapping and killing of locals, suicide attacks and blocking the road connecting Lower with upper Kurram, Pakistani army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair) (AP)

In Pakistan, many say aid “snub” dims U.S. sway

Sebastian Abbot
America withholds one-third of annual military assistance, as some warn of unintended consequences

Our new era of identity politics

Mandy Van Deven
The Obama presidency was supposed herald a new post-racial America. An author explains why that will never happen
In this June 15, 2011 photo, job seekers wait in a line at a job fair in Southfield, Mich. Two years after economists declared the end of the Great Recession, the rebound is the weakest since the 1930s and the most lop-sided. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) (AP)

The economy is broken, and Washington can’t fix it

Andrew Leonard
Finally, some bipartisan unity: Both parties unite in ignoring the true meaning of a horrible jobs report
President Barack Obama talks about the ongoing budget negotiations, Thursday, July, 7, 2011, in the briefing room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Obama: Uncertainty over debt limit impacts hiring

Associated Press
The president urges congressional action in the wake of a devastating jobs report
President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters about debt ceiling negotiations, Tuesday, July 5, 2011, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

How a one-term president is made

Steve Kornacki
The possibility that Obama will end up like Carter and Bush 41 has never been more real
"TAXES." Get it?

Karl Rove’s dumb subliminal ad

Alex Pareene
Crossroads GPS writes "TAXES" on the president's face, for a split second
President Barack Obama speaks as he hosts military fathers and their children for a screening of Disney/Pixar movie 'Cars 2' in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Wednesday, June 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Was Obama nearly put up for adoption?

Natasha Lennard
U.S. Immigration files reveal Obama's father expressed plans to give up the president as a baby
Bradley Manning

Why Bradley Manning is an American hero

Chase Madar
If the private did leak documents, his only "crime" is pushing the U.S. back to our tradition of transparency
President Barack Obama listens during a meeting with advisors in the Oval Office, June 8, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House. (The White House)

Reports: Obama pushing for cuts to Social Security, Medicare

Glenn Greenwald
The reported social program cuts follow the same template as that which drives the presidency in all realms

The GOP turns its back on Reagan

Gene Lyons
In their hysterical debt ceiling posturing, Republicans ignore a warning from their patron saint
Sarah Palin, Casey Anthony and Newt Gingrich

Casey Anthony: The candidates respond

Alex Pareene
Republican contenders weigh in, sort of, on the trial of the century
President Barack Obama arrives to speak at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention in Washington, Sunday, May 22, 2011, after a contentious couple of days this week when he clashed publicly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over ideas for a permanent Palestinian state. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

So much for Obama’s Jewish problem

Natasha Lennard
A poll finds no evidence for claims that the president is losing support within key component of his coalition
This is an undated file photo shows then-al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, in Afghanistan. After Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, the White House released a photo of President Barack Obama and his cabinet inside the Situation Room, watching the daring raid unfold. Hidden from view, standing just outside the frame of that instantly iconic photograph was a career CIA analyst. In the hunt for the world's most-wanted terrorist, there may have been no one more important. His job for nearly a decade: finding bin Laden. (AP Photo) (AP)

The man who hunted Osama bin Laden

Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman
Meet the CIA analyst who tracked down the al-Qaida leader over the course of a decade
Members of the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and their supporters attended a vigil at the State Capitol steps in St. Paul, Minn on Thursday night June 30, 2011. Minnesota stumbled into its second government shutdown in six years on Thursday, with a partisan divide over taxes and spending to close a $5 billion deficit becoming only more bitter as a midnight deadline came and went without agreement. (AP Photo/Carlos Gonzalez - Star Tribune) MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

The roots of Minnesota’s staring contest

Steve Kornacki
A Democratic governor bets that voters are ready to turn on the Republicans they empowered last fall
A woman holds a sign as supporters and opponents of gay marriage rallied in a hallway outside a Republican conference room at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Wednesday, June 22, 2011. Senate leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver agree they are working through the proposed additional religious protections that could bring a gay marriage bill to the Senate floor. No deal was struck. But both leaders say progress is being made and no major obstacles to agreement on the provisions is in sight. (AP Photo/Mike Groll) (AP)

The three fundamentalisms of the American right

Michael Lind
How conservatism went from orthodox and traditional to radical and counter-revolutionary

Secret Service to probe hack on Fox News Twitter

Associated Press
Fox News have demanded a detailed investigation from Twitter
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