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Surprise! Letting the Bush tax cuts die has been great for states
Steven Rosenfeld
Blue and red states alike are using better-than-expected tax revenues for projects like early childhood education
Ted Cruz keeps thwarting John Boehner’s best-laid plans
Elias Isquith
The Texas senator is taking thinly veiled shots at the political strategy of the speaker of the House
The gay guide to the Super Bowl
Jim Buzinski
No, gay men don't only love award shows. This football fan's game guide is great no matter your sexual orientation
Tea Party’s austerity virus: How Washington lost its fiscal mind
Michael Lind
Thanks to Congress, members of an otherworldly counterculture continue to strangle the American economy
Michael Grimm’s bullying sickness: Who’s the real “thug” here?
Joan Walsh
A trash-talking football player gets more hatred than an ethically challenged Republican who threatens violence
Send Arne Duncan to Mars!: A State of the Union wish list for liberals
Josh Eidelson
We asked left-of-center groups what they hope to hear in the president's speech tonight. Here are the best replies
My personal Fox News nightmare: Inside a month of self-induced torture
John Haggerty
I'm a card-carrying member of the ACLU. Here's what happened when I watched 3 hours of Fox every day for a month
“We’re gonna lose everything”: One family’s urgent unemployment insurance story
Josh Eidelson
Kerstin, one of 1.6 million now without jobless benefits, opens up about skipping meals and canceling Christmas
GOP’s ongoing election strategy: Obamacare “stinks”
John Stoehr
The president's poll numbers are low, but the reasons why have less to do with the ACA than Republicans think
Justin Bieber: Affluenza poster boy
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The singer seems to think he's above the law -- and he may be right
GOP’s apocalyptic new debt limit strategy: One enormous lie
Brian Beutler
With Obamacare repeal impossible, conservatives need a new villain to attack. Introducing: The "Obamacare bailout"
Ted Cruz, suddenly the GOP’s biggest loser
Joan Walsh
As the ACA stabilizes and Chris Christie stumbles, the former 2016 contender slips from relevance into inanity
GOP’s next moral disgrace?: How right-wing crazies may kill a voting rights fix
Brian Beutler
With a new vote to expand the Voting Rights Act looming, we're about to learn just how cynical this party really is
House passes spending bill to fund the government until the fall
Andrew Taylor
The $1.1 trillion bill passed by an overwhelming margin, 359-67
Freezing for Wal-Mart: Sub-zero warehouse temperatures spur Indiana work stoppage
Josh Eidelson
Amid polar vortex and state of emergency, workers defied a boss who told them to stay on the job
Ted Cruz trolls House GOP leadership
Elias Isquith
The Texas senator's newest hire is being interpreted by some as a "huge slap in the face" to GOPers in the House
Marco Rubio’s cynical new low: A poverty plan destined to fail
Elias Isquith
After a horrendous 2013 in which he backtracked on immigration, he's back with a new cause: Making poverty worse
Rachel Maddow unveils riveting Christie theory
Brad Friedman
Was the state Democratic Senate majority leader the real target of lane closures at the George Washington Bridge?
GOP’s 2014 horror strategy: Exploit Americans’ misfortune, drum up fake outrage
Brian Beutler
Prepare for them to search high and low for people disappointed with Obamacare -- then pretend to share their pain
2013 Best in Wall Street accountability: Fantasy edition
David Dayen
Here are the 2013 year-end awards in the fields of economics and finance -- the way it should have gone
The 10 biggest GOP rebranding fails of 2013
Elias Isquith
From cutting food stamps to "calves the size of cantaloupes" -- the 10 worst moments of the GOP's 2013 rebranding
The year in sex: 2013
Tracy Clark-Flory
From gay marriage to Miley Cyrus, these are the moments that defined our sexual culture this year
McDonald’s embarrassment on employee resource site
Natasha Lennard
Advice on McResource essentially urges workers against eating the fast food chain's popular options
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