If Congress doesn't go after unemployment, some conservative Democrats are going to lose their jobs
By Robert Reich Nov 4, 2009
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The real unemployment rate is almost 20 percent. Here's what the federal government can do about the jobs crisis
By Michael Lind
October 19, 2009
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When the Fox News host pushes a crackpot theory, it doesn't take long for the GOP to run with it. A timeline
By Gabriel Winant and Tim Bella
October 12, 2009
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Healthcare reform might be easier if so many industry lobbyists didn't once work for legislators like Max Baucus
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
October 10, 2009
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John Boehner has a busy first hundred days after the Republicans take back the House in November 2010
By Salon Staff
August 26, 2009
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It's almost Labor Day. Healthcare reform is struggling, the public option is near dead. Why couldn't Obama deliver?
By Thomas Schaller
August 24, 2009
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Six senators representing 3 percent of the population are running things because the White House wants it that way
By Robert Reich
August 23, 2009
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Jeff Bingaman's state needs healthcare reform, yet he is joining Baucus and Conrad to punt on the public option
By Mike Madden
August 19, 2009
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The president should have heeded the Florentine's advice before he embarked on healthcare reform
By Michael Lind
August 18, 2009
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Obama's agreement with Big Pharma may help healthcare reform pass, but it may also mean higher drug prices for you
By Robert Reich
August 10, 2009
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Can an overdose of TV ads while Congress leaves town help save Obama's healthcare plan?
By Mike Madden
July 31, 2009
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Max Baucus and the Blue Dogs are gumming up the works, but other Democrats say there's still hope for healthcare
By Mike Madden
July 29, 2009
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Seventeen men and women who are either enabling the fringe movement or having trouble admitting Obama is president
By Gabriel Winant
July 28, 2009
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Every day that Congress delays takes us further from real reform of healthcare
By Robert Reich
July 27, 2009
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Taxing the wealthy could help the poor? Not if Congress has anything to do with it
By David Sirota
July 25, 2009
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Why their vaunted "fiscal conservatism" targets health reform -- and never Pentagon waste
By Joe Conason
July 24, 2009
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Sanford, Ensign, and other regulars receive guidance from the invisible fundamentalist group known as the Family
By Jeff Sharlet
July 21, 2009
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Hey, Democrats -- Republicans have no intention of addressing America's healthcare ills. Any reform is up to you
By Joe Conason
July 17, 2009
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Frank Ricci, this week's poster boy for oppressed white males everywhere, declines to attack Sonia Sotomayor
By Mike Madden
July 17, 2009
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It's what the House of Representatives wants to do to pay for healthcare. It's a good idea, and a great slogan
By Robert Reich
July 16, 2009
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As the debate over the Waxman-Markey climate bill rages on, Harvard's top environmental economist sheds some light
By Katharine Mieszkowski
July 10, 2009
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Now that everyone knows about AIG's bonuses, Congress decides to get angry about them.
By Mike Madden
March 19, 2009
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AIG's CEO tells Congress that without the bonuses, financial disaster looms. Congress is unpersuaded.
By Andrew Leonard
March 18, 2009
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At a congressional hearing, Democratic and Republican politicians are outraged. So what else is new?
By Andrew Leonard
March 18, 2009
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President Obama urges pork reform and signs a bill with earmarks in it on the same day. Republicans make an unconvincing show of outrage.
By Mike Madden
March 12, 2009