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US Senator George Allen during a rally in Springfield Springfield, Va., Saturday, Nov. 4, 2006. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) (Steve Helber)

How George Allen’s comeback can still fall apart

Steve Kornacki
5 reasons why Jim Webb's retirement may not help the former GOP senator's effort to win back his old seat
(AP)

Obama and House GOP leaders promise cooperation

Erica Werner
House Reps. Boehner, Cantor, and McCarthy agree to work with the president on spending, education, tax policy
President Obama and Bill O'Reilly

Bill O’Reilly refused to let the president finish a sentence

Alex Pareene
Barack Obama was interrupted 48 times during his brief, pre-Super Bowl Fox interview
People attend a tea party protest in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (Associated Press)

A tale of two Tea Party targets

Steve Kornacki
Threatened with serious primary challenges from the right, two Republican senators take different paths

At CIA, grave mistakes, then promotions

Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman
Wrongful CIA renditions and other fatal mistakes haven't kept careerists from climbing up in the agency hierarchy
Bob Carey, 71, helps direct traffic before Gov. Rick Scott announced his budget during a Tea Party event in Eustis, Fla., Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack) (AP)

The Tea Party and civil liberties

Glenn Greenwald
Numerous right-wing House members oppose the Patriot Act extension. Is there potential for a right-left alliance?
Rush Limbaugh; Donald Rumsfeld

Rumsfeld is worried about the caliphate, too

Joan Walsh
The former defense secretary channels Glenn Beck as he bashes Obama and kisses Rush Limbaugh's behind

Political news: Obama might not smoke anymore

Alex Pareene
Our White House press corps is in dogged pursuit of the truth
President Barack Obama speaks at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Obama to call for $53 billion for high-speed rail

Julie Pace
President pushes for major infrastructure project to create jobs and improve American competitiveness

Fox’s big lie about Obama’s Cairo speech

Alex Pareene
A top D.C. editor's misinterpretation of a presidential address becomes an endlessly repeated talking point
Tea party supporters cheer as they listen to a speech at a tea party rally in Irvine, Calif., Thursday, April 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) (Jae C. Hong)

How to understand what’s happened to the GOP

Steve Kornacki
A one-time rising star on the right quits his GOP leadership post because of all the "nuts"
Jimmy Carter

How Reaganism actually started with Carter

Michael Lind
Think Reagan was the first modern president to preach low taxes, free markets and morality?
A small AOL placard is displayed on their offices in New York, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Internet company AOL Inc. is buying news hub Huffington Post in a $315 million deal that represents a bold bet on the future of online news. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (AP)

AOL HuffPo buy signals news, ads push

AP/Salon
AOL's shift equals a new direction
South Sudanese Catholic Archbishop Paulino Lukudu holds up mock ballots during a service attended by President Salva Kiir in Juba, Southern Sudan, Sunday Jan. 16, 2011. The Southern Sudan's president on Sunday offered a prayer of forgiveness for northern Sudan and the killings that occurred during a two-decade civil war, as the first results from a weeklong independence referendum showed an overwhelming vote for secession. About four million Southern Sudanese voters cast their ballots in a weeklong referendum on independence that is expected to split Africa's largest nation in two.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay) (AP)

Obama: U.S. to recognize Southern Sudan

Associated Press
Southern Sudan to be world's newest nation in July after last month's "successful and inspiring" referendum
President Barack Obama listens during his joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Obama says White House, CEOs must work together

Jim Kuhnhenn
President extends olive branch to Chamber of Commerce, urging cooperation and shared responsibility

Obama vs. O’Reilly

Ethan Sherwood Strauss
The president chats with the Fox News pundit. And nothing terrible happens
FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama, visiting Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, N.C., speaks about the key to boosting American competitiveness, that it rests in the nation's willingness to invest in a more educated workforce, a deeper commitment to research and technology, and improvements in infrastructure, from roads and airports to high-speed internet. Under pressure to boost the economy the same message will likely be at the center of his State of the Union address Tuesday, Jan. 25. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File) (AP)

Obama’s budget director: Deficits force ”tough choices”

AP/Salon
Budget director Jacob Lew believes the White House will need to cut important programs, due to deficits
FILE - In this Feb. 7, 1984 file photo, President Ronald Reagan addresses a crowd of well-wishers gathered for a huge birthday party in the Dixon High School gymnasium in Dixon, Ill. Reagan returned to his boyhood home for the first time since becoming president to celebrate his 73rd birthday. Reagan was born 100 years ago Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File) (AP)

Cheney to speak at Reagan centennial

AP/Salon
The former V.P. will commemorate the former president's influence
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reacts at a panel discussion during the Conference on Security Policy in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) (AP)

U.S. backs Egypt reforms

AP/Salon
Hillary Clinton supports Egypt's Vice President Omar Suleiman
President Barack Obama and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper take part in a joint news conference, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Obama hosts Super Bowl party, Bill O’Reilly interview

AP/Salon
The president plans a bipartisan football extravaganza
In this photo taken Jan. 19, 2011, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio talks about the upcoming vote to to repeal the health care bill at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans used their first two weeks in power, interrupted by tributes to the Arizona shooting victims, to excoriate the health law. Boehner says the next big priority is to codify a perennially renewed ban on federal funding for abortion, and to specify that it applies to health plans. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP)

House GOP to decimate domestic agencies

AP/Salon
Republicans propose to cut spending by 9 percent, which would lead to government worker layoffs
The 2008 Democratic National Convention

Dems to shun corporate, lobbyist donations at convention

Associated Press
Organizers say 2012 will be the first DNC to be financed by grass-roots activists and rank-and-file members
Egyptian protesters holding a sign with President Hosni Mubarak's face crossed out.

Obama to Egypt: Time to transition is now

Ben Feller, Matthew Lee
President says that talks about a government handover plan for Egypt have begun
In this Aug. 4, 1982 photo, unidentified unemployed auto and steel workers picket in front of the White House in Washington, Aug. 4, 1982.

We fought a war on lies, and lies won

Joan Walsh
Trashing the War on Poverty, Reagan destroyed the social compact that built the postwar American dream
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