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Openly gay SecNavy?
Thomas Schaller
Obama could confound Rick Warren critics by appointing gay man as Navy Secretary.
Obama checking in with exes
Thomas Schaller
Before he moves into White House, Obama plans to meet with all living former presidents.
The economic Civil War
Michael Lind
The South's attempt to kill the North's auto industry is the latest battle in an ongoing conflict. It's time for a Third Reconstruction to put an end to it.
Republican Ray LaHood to run Transportation. Who?
Gabriel Winant
Obama follows through on his bipartisan pledge by picking a somewhat obscure Republican congressman for Secretary of Transportation.
Blago-man bites Obama-dog
Thomas Schaller
Illinois governor removes picture of him and Obama from his website.
Coming soon: Bush’s “conscience” rule
Tracy Clark-Flory
The regulation limiting women's access to healthcare is expected to be finalized this week.
Is picking Caroline Kennedy the easy way out?
Mike Madden
For national Democrats, the main concern in filling Hillary Clinton's Senate seat is simply who can hold onto it.
Lieberman heads for the bottom
Vincent Rossmeier
A Quinnipiac University poll released today found Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman's approval rating has dipped to its lowest mark ever.
Illinois court rules for Blago
Thomas Schaller
State Supreme Court dismisses without comment attempts to remove him as unfit.
Obama and Rick Warren to reunite on Jan. 20
Mike Madden
The evangelical pastor whose Saddleback Civil Forum came off like an ambush will give the invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration.
Reactions to Salazar, Vilsack
Thomas Schaller
Political people pipe up about Obama's latest two appointments.
D.C. bars won’t stay open quite so late for inauguration
Mike Madden
Under pressure from Congress, the D.C. government scales back plans to let bars stay open until 5 a.m. the weekend Barack Obama takes office
Michael Pollan reacts to Vilsack at Agriculture
Gabriel Winant
What America's top advocate for agricultural reform thinks about Obama's pick for Secretary of Agriculture.
Republicans in disarray
Thomas Schaller
The latest in an ongoing series of dispatches from the Republican collapse.
Vilsack: Big Agriculture has a man in the White House
Andrew Leonard
Monsanto likes the former Iowa governor and ethanol booster. Is that enough of a reason for greenie food activists to despair?
Obama and national black politics
Thomas Schaller
There's been little discussion of the impact of Obama's election on national black politics.
Season’s greetings from Barack, Michelle and RuPaul
Mark Schone
A very special holiday card from the first family-in-waiting.
And Vilsack makes four
Thomas Schaller
Obama's choice of the former IA governor makes four former nomination rivals in top posts.
Non-southern appointments
Thomas Schaller
The absence of southern appointees is not something to worry about, nor applaud.
Prostitution vs. war crimes: The real moral offense
Glenn Greenwald
As Dick Cheney heads off into a luxury-filled and respectable retirement, outrage continues to be directed at the petty transgressions of Eliot Spitzer
Dude, where’s my $700 billion?
Mike Madden
Congress handed Wall Street a huge wad of cash to jump-start the economy. It didn't work -- so where did all that money go?
All-American terrorist
Andrew O'Hehir
A '60s activist-turned-vigilante is tortured by a handsome interrogator in Glen Duncan's gripping new novel. So which one is the villain?
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