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Poll shows Specter in serious trouble
Alex Koppelman
A conservative challenger leads the Pennsylvania senator by 14 points.
Catholics protesting Obama speech at Notre Dame
Alex Koppelman
A group of conservatives are angry the president was invited to give the school's commencement address despite his pro-choice stance.
Stock market delirium: Wall Street hearts Geithner
Andrew Leonard
Investors dance a jig to the tune of Paul Krugman's despair. The Dow jumps almost 500 points.
On the right, ACORN paranoia never dies
Gabriel Winant
Michelle Malkin worries about President Obama's first nominee to the federal bench, who worked for the liberal group 30 years ago.
AIG is chump change — let’s find corporate America’s hidden billions
Joe Conason
It's time to reform offshore banking, and see what untaxed wealth big business is hiding in overseas tax shelters.
Just how bad off is the Republican Party (Part 2)?
Salon Staff
A state-by-state look at the state of the Grand Old Party in the Age of Steele.
Physician, heal thy system
Rahul K. Parikh
President Obama's ambitious healthcare reforms begin with doctors themselves -- if they take the medicine.
The outrageous offenses against Richard Cheney
Glenn Greenwald
TV journalists protest the insufficiently reverent commentary directed at "the former vice president of the United States."
Take this bonus and shove it
Mike Madden
President Obama is raising his voice to condemn AIG executives. But singing an angry song may be all he can do about the fat paychecks.
Obama’s Middle East moment of truth
Gary Kamiya
His diplomatic moves are a good start. But does he have the will to challenge Israel?
Michelle Obama, woman of limited ambitions?
Rebecca Traister
The most depressing part of New York magazine's dispiriting cover package on the first lady.
Real socialist on Obama: He’s not like me
Alex Koppelman
In an op-ed, the editor of Socialist magazine says charges against the president are overblown, and that he might not even be a liberal.
Obama’s “enemy combatant” policy: following a familiar pattern
Glenn Greenwald
In the realm of civil liberties and executive power, symbolic gestures of reversal are followed by embraces of Bush policies.
Caught in a Steele trap
Joe Conason
Affirmative action, Republican-style, doomed party Chairman Michael Steele to failure before he ever took the job.
Should Obama have a guilty conscience?
Alex Koppelman
Former Education Secretary Bill Bennett goes after the president for Democrats' vote against vouchers that send two students to the school the Obama children attend.
Barack Obama is an evil human-race-enslaving robot
Andrew Leonard
New Deal critic Amity Shlaes compares the president's healthcare plan to "The Matrix."
The mission of the Beltway journalist
Glenn Greenwald
Thomas Jefferson envisioned the press ensuring that "light" be shined on our government officials through "investigations." Today, they explicitly devote themselves to the opposite.
The agenda of Chuck Schumer
Glenn Greenwald
The Democratic Senator was a key supporter of even the most radical Bush appointees, and then led the way in sinking an Obama appointee who made "statements against Israel."
Why is Jim Cramer shouting at me?
Gabriel Winant
Is CNBC as bad as Jon Stewart says it is? Yes, and a full day in front of the network will have you longing to return to the real world.
Heads should roll
Camille Paglia
President Obama's clumsy, smirky staff is sinking him -- and resurrecting a deflated GOP! Plus: Lay off Rush! And a Brazilian diva, up close and electric
I was a teenage socialist!
Joan Walsh
Sort of. And I still don't understand the media's sudden, silly fixation with Obama and that lost ideology.
Here comes socialism
Mike Madden
Some kind of bank nationalization is probably inevitable. The Democrats don't want to admit it yet. The Republicans just want you to be scared.
John Yoo is sorry for nothing
Gary Kamiya
Sneering with contempt, the unrepentant Bush attorney has challenged "Obama's antiwar base" to read his infamous memos closely. So I did.
The right responds to Obama’s stem cell decision
Alex Koppelman
Two commentators talk eugenics, and congressional Republican leaders come out to oppose the move.
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