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President heads straight to hospital

Ben Feller, Julie Pace
Barack and Michelle Obama meet privately with Rep. Giffords and others at University Medical Center in Tucson

Watch Bill Clinton’s Oklahoma City speech

Salon Staff
Will Barack Obama rise to occasion tonight the way the 42nd president did back in 1995?
The home of Jared Loughner, at 7741 N Soledad Ave., Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011 in Tucson, Az. Loughner is accused of attempting to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six other people Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011 during a "Congress on your Corner" event at a mall in Tucson, Az. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Mark Henle) (AP)

Loughner’s dad pursued him before shooting

Amanda Lee Myers, Justin Pritchard
Sheriff's investigators say Randy Loughner chased Jared, who had a mysterious black bag, into desert in his truck
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri meets with President Barack Obama,, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Lebanon’s government falls as Hezbollah pulls out

Zeina Karam
Hezbollah and allies force collapse; crisis deepens
U.S. President George W. Bush is cheered by supporters at a "Victory 2004" election rally in Holland, Michigan, September 13, 2004. Bush is campaigning on a bus tour throughout Michigan before heading to Colorado later in the day. REUTERS/Jason Reed US ELECTION JIR (© Reuters Photographer / Reuters)

The five worldviews that define American politics

Michael Lind
Did you ever wonder why there are so few fundamental differences between Obama and Bush?
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, shakes hand with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Biden says U.S. will not abandon Afghanistan

Tarek El-tablawy, Patrick Quinn
The vice president assured Hamid Karzai that the United States "won't leave in 2014" after handover
John L. Magee lithograph depicts Preston Brooks's attack on Charles Sumner in 1856.

Our permanent culture of political violence

Glenn W. LaFantasie
And why the calls for civility in the wake of Saturday's shooting won't end up changing anything
Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck denounces those who seek to “reconstruct” our “system”

Alex Pareene
One host's response to the shootings: A comforting e-mail to Sarah Palin and thinly veiled attacks on liberals
The western facade of the United States Supreme Court building.

‘Birther’ leader stymied by Supreme Court

Associated Press
The 'birther' movement falls short of presenting its case in the Supreme Court
In this Dec. 15, 2010 photo, Jesse Paloger holds up a sign while standing on Wall Street as he hopes to find a job, in New York. Paloger, who has an accounting and economics degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, has written on the bottom of his sign, "Go-getter from California looking for my shot!" Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the third drop in the past four weeks and a sign that the job market is slowly improving. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (AP)

Is this the end of American economic dominance?

Adam Clark Estes
With top corporations expecting another year of record profits, economists offer a pessimistic vision of America
William Kostric wears a 9mm pistol as he stands outside a town hall meeting on health care held by President Barack Obama, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009, in Portsmouth, N.H. Right: Sarah Palin

Watering the tree of liberty

Alex Pareene
A look back at some of the worst revolutionary rhetoric that's contributed to a culture of political violence
People hold signs during a "tea party" protest in Flagstaff, Arizona August 31, 2009. Organizers say the event is an effort to work against members of Congress who voted for higher spending and taxes. REUTERS/Joshua Lott (UNITED STATES BUSINESS IMAGES OF THE DAY CONFLICT POLITICS) (© Joshua Lott / Reuters)

Let’s not make this something it isn’t

Steve Kornacki
Too many commentators are intent on making Jared Loughner a symbol of Tea Party rage
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Obama speaks with Giffords’ husband

Associated Press
The President expresses regret, concern
Dr. Manny Alvarez performed the emergency surgery on Gabrielle Giffords and said though she's in for a "long fight" recovery is not impossible

Congresswoman still sedated after gunman’s attack

Pauline Arrillaga
In this photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., takes part in a reenactment of her swearing-in, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011 when an assailant opened fire outside a grocery store during a meeting with constituents, killing at least five people and wounding several others in a rampage that rattled the nation. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)

Lawmakers want calmer politics, post-Tucson

Calvin Woodward, Charles Babington
In the wake of the Giffords shooting, politicians look to addressing acrimonious political climate
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, shows Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona's 8th Congressional District. Congressional officials say Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., has been shot in her district. (AP Photo/Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, File) NO SALES (AP)

Gabrielle Giffords: A promising career interrupted

Steve Kornacki, Justin Elliott
First elected from a swing district in southern Arizona in 2006, she fended off a Tea Party challenge in 2010
President Barack Obama wears safety glasses during a tour of the Thompson Creek Window Company, where he spoke on the economy, in Landover, Md., Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Obama claims economic growth

Erica Werner
The president announces private sector improvement, believes trend will continue upward
Barack Obama.

Obama opposes Guantanamo provision in defense bill

Associated Press
Calls part of bill blocking U.S. transfer of detainees a dangerous challenge to the executive branch's authority
(Sue Ogrocki)

Jeb Bush and what the GOP really thinks about 2012

Steve Kornacki
They'll never say it publicly, but are Republicans privately putting their bets on Obama?
President Barack Obama and William Daley

Bill Daley selection pleases no one (but DC reporters)

Alex Pareene
A finance industry-affiliated center-right Daley family member who worked for Fannie Mae? Oy
An F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet sits onboard the U.S. Navy's USS George Washington aircraft carrier. (Reuters)

Does America really have the finest military in the world?

William J. Astore
The retired officer in me warms to the sentiment, but the historian in me begs to differ
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Speaker John Boehner

At last, (some of) the Constitution is read

Alex Pareene
Democrats and Republicans in the House join together to read an abridged version. 3/5 clause? What 3/5 clause?
In this Sept. 2, 2010 photo, a U.S. Marine, left, and U.S. Amy Flight Medic Staff Sgt. Richard Jarrett, right, rush U.S. Marine Pfc. Justin Turner, center, of Flower Mound, Texas, who was wounded in an IED attack, across an irrigated field deep with mud to a waiting U.S. Army Task Force Shadow medevac helicopter, west of Lashkar Gah, in southern Afghanistan. Aeromedical teams with the 101st Airborne's Task Force Destiny provide the fast medical evacuation of those wounded throughout southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (AP)

Gates sending 1,400 more Marines to Afghanistan

Pauline Jelinek
Extra troops will supplement the 30,000 already in the country

“It is the most monumental insanity”

Andrew Leonard
Conservative historian Bruce Bartlett explains why Tea Party thinking on national debt ceiling is "idiotic"
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