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Can Obama give ’em hell before it’s too late?
Michael Lind
Why can't Democrats mobilize the public for healthcare reform? Blame the demagogy gap
A forced breakthrough in the Middle East
Erich Follath, Christoph Schult
If Obama can get Israel to agree to stop building new settlements, there may be a new opportunity for peace
The return of the welfare queen
Ed Kilgore
Healthcare reform has brought back the right's favorite wedge issue -- government handouts for the "undeserving"
Bill Moyers on the health care debate, Democrats, and Afghanistan
Glenn Greenwald
"These narrow interests win no matter how many Democrats are elected, no matter who controls the levers of power."
The end of an era
Alan Wolfe
They don't make families -- or politicians, or liberals -- like Teddy and the Kennedys anymore
Remembering Kennedy’s 2008 Democratic convention speech
Rebecca Traister
The senator wasn't supposed to make it to Denver, but he had something optimistic to say about healthcare reform
Sen. Ted Kennedy dies at 77
The Associated Press
The liberal lion passes on the eve of an epic battle over health care, his defining issue
A man of history
Vincent Rossmeier
Timeline: How Teddy Kennedy's life of triumph and tragedy defined America
It is 2011, and John Boehner is Speaker of the House
Salon Staff
John Boehner has a busy first hundred days after the Republicans take back the House in November 2010
Iraq: Afghanistan’s model for success
Susanne Koelbl
The U.S. Army is trying out a radical change of course in Afghanistan -- but will it work?
Stabbing babies to fight healthcare reform
Mike Madden
Former Operation Rescue boss Randall Terry starts his own series of protests outside healthcare meetings
What went wrong?
Thomas Schaller
It's almost Labor Day. Healthcare reform is struggling, the public option is near dead. Why couldn't Obama deliver?
The Beltway consensus: the Left is to blame for health care battle
Glenn Greenwald
An intense media race is underway to see who will be the Bob Woodward of the Obama White House
Hu Jintao is no Kaiser Wilhelm
Andrew Leonard
Historian Niall Ferguson says "Chimerica" is doomed. Kaiser Kuo disagrees, amid a storm of Twitter porn
Krugman to Obama: You’re getting rolled
Andrew Leonard
Progressives want the president to show some backbone on health care... and everything else
Now more than ever, bipartisanship is for suckers
Joe Conason
Republicans want Obama to fail. He needs to stop seeking consensus, because it makes him look weak
Why the health care debate is so important regardless of one’s view of the “public option”
Glenn Greenwald
There is a real opportunity, for once, to change the dynamic that dictates political outcomes.
Is the public option really necessary?
Vincent Rossmeier
A survey of the range of opinion -- from Maddow, Stewart, Walsh, Silver, others -- on the left
Mike Huckabee’s right-wing cocoon and “liberal bloggers”
Glenn Greenwald
The Right and the establishment media share weapons for dismissing criticisms without addressing them.
What is Obama defending in Afghanistan?
Juan Cole
Obama has to be more specific and systematic about his goals in Afghanistan before we can judge his strategy there
The Lanny Davis disease and America’s health care debate
Glenn Greenwald
One of the most shameless practitioners of Washington whoredom reflects the sleaze that drives political outcomes.
How to kill a coal plant
Mark Engler
As a recent British protest shows, nonviolent civil disobedience may be our best hope to counteract global warming
Mike Huckabee bashes America on foreign soil
Glenn Greenwald
Washington's cherished rules are quickly waived when it comes to Israel.
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