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“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

Campaign cash rules drown in the bathtub

Michael Winship
Grover Norquist's dream come true: What little regulation remains after Citizens United is being eroded to nothing

The 10 best segments from “The Daily Show” and “Colbert Report” this year

Prachi Gupta
Celebrating some of the year's best satire and parody

The year in movies: Iron Man, Ted Cruz, race and power

Andrew O'Hehir
The chaos of 2013, from Snowden to the shutdown to complex films about race relations

The 5 best Saturday Night Live skits of 2013

Dustin Rowles
Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake host this week. To crack this list, they have their work cut out for them

The terrifying truth about America’s fastest growing workforce

Michael Grabell, Jeff Larson, Olga Pierce
More and more companies are turning to blue-collar temp workers to do the country's most dangerous jobs

Accusations fly against celeb-loving organic bread company

Josh Eidelson
While employees say Amy's Bread is threatening them to keep mum, owner says anti-union meetings are "very friendly"

Senate passes Murray-Ryan budget deal

David Espo
The final vote was 64-36

Tapered! Fed unexpectedly announces slowdown of stimulus measures

Martin Crutsinger
Unemployment is still at 7 percent, but Bernanke and co. decide that enough is enough
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