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  • Enron-a-palooza!

    Grab your popcorn and your legal pads. Congress is set to kick off hours and hours of Enron hearings.
  • Israel's House foes

    In a meaningless resolution, a small group of House critics tee off on U.S. foreign policy -- and Israel -- lamenting the "root causes of terrorism."
  • Stop Operation Enduring Avarice!

    The Republican "economic stimulus" plan amounts to war profiteering by the wealthy.
  • The bipartisanship bust

    It didn't take long after Sept. 11 for the Republican right in Congress to return to the business-as-usual of fattening the rich.
  • Bush's lost week

    After a series of stunning political reversals, it's time for the president to sober up.
  • McCain-Feingold seems a done deal

    After a dramatic final tussle, the first sweeping campaign reform since the 1970s seems ready to pass the Senate.
  • The education of John McCain

    Stabbed in the back by his congressional colleagues, the nation's campaign finance crusader should take his battle to the people.
  • Will Republicans be Bush's worst enemies?

    From John McCain to Tom DeLay, members of his own party could make the most trouble for the president-elect.
  • GOP likely to hold both houses of Congress

    Democrats will pick up some Senate seats, but not enough to take control.
  • Impeachment: The rematch

    As former House manager James Rogan battles for his political life against Democrat Adam Schiff, it's hard not to see them as proxies for Henry Hyde vs. President Clinton.
  • Trafficking in human flesh

    A landmark act passed by the Senate last week would increase protection for slaves forced into prostitution.
  • Big radio bites back!

    Major broadcasting companies and NPR are ganging up on low-power FM radio. Can John McCain save the day?
  • Breaking rank for human rights

    With lives and money at stake in the Colombian drug war, one human rights lawyer takes a pragmatic approach to influencing U.S. aid.
  • Who wins, who dies?

    Congress must stop fighting about transplant regulations and deal with the real problem: the shortage of donated organs.
  • Inoculated into oblivion

    When families hit the Capitol last week, they demanded answers about the source of their children's autism.
  • Drug money

    With our foreign policy toward Colombia hogtied by campaign finance and business interests, the war on drugs could be better waged against Washington.
  • The elephant in the room

    Presidential candidates are silent on the failure of the U.S. war on drugs.
  • Et tu, J.C.?

    The only African-American in the House Republican Caucus is among the scores of House GOP members contemplating retirement.
  • Propaganda for dollars

    When the White House and the TV networks got together to put anti-drug messages in prime-time television, were they breaking the law?
  • Prime-time propaganda

    How the White House secretly hooked network TV on its anti-drug message: A Salon special report.
  • Golden State warriors

    California may decide which party controls Congress.
  • Silence in the House

    Many Republicans agree that partial privatization is necessary to reform Social Security, but don't expect them to say that in this election year.
  • Where silence is golden

    Every issue you can think of comes up in our nation's capital, except one: What's to become of the company store?
  • Surgeon general pushes mental health treatment

    Shame and the lack of insurance keep many from getting the help they need.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Horowitz's "revisionist" understanding of race relations
    Plus: The politics and art of Rage Against the Machine; telling AOL what to do with its spam-fest.
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