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The Blue Dog Dems are in danger

By Robert Reich — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

If Congress doesn't go after unemployment, some conservative Democrats are going to lose their jobs

That sound you hear is the social fabric about to snap

By Michael Lind — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

The real unemployment rate is almost 20 percent. Here's what the federal government can do about the jobs crisis

Glenn Beck, Republican strategist

By Gabriel Winant and Tim Bella — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

When the Fox News host pushes a crackpot theory, it doesn't take long for the GOP to run with it. A timeline

Washington's revolving doors are bad for your health

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Healthcare reform might be easier if so many industry lobbyists didn't once work for legislators like Max Baucus

It is 2011, and John Boehner is Speaker of the House

By Salon Staff — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

John Boehner has a busy first hundred days after the Republicans take back the House in November 2010

What went wrong?

By Thomas Schaller — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

It's almost Labor Day. Healthcare reform is struggling, the public option is near dead. Why couldn't Obama deliver?

Why the Gang of Six is deciding healthcare for 300 million of us

By Robert Reich — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Six senators representing 3 percent of the population are running things because the White House wants it that way

Why Senate Democrats are giving up so easily

By Mike Madden — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Jeff Bingaman's state needs healthcare reform, yet he is joining Baucus and Conrad to punt on the public option

Obama, you're no Machiavelli

By Michael Lind — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

The president should have heeded the Florentine's advice before he embarked on healthcare reform

The White House deal with Big Pharma undermines democracy

By Robert Reich — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Obama's agreement with Big Pharma may help healthcare reform pass, but it may also mean higher drug prices for you

This may hurt a bit

By Mike Madden — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Can an overdose of TV ads while Congress leaves town help save Obama's healthcare plan?

The public option is not dead. Yet

By Mike Madden — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Max Baucus and the Blue Dogs are gumming up the works, but other Democrats say there's still hope for healthcare

The Birthers in Congress

By Gabriel Winant — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Seventeen men and women who are either enabling the fringe movement or having trouble admitting Obama is president

The future of universal healthcare

By Robert Reich — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Every day that Congress delays takes us further from real reform of healthcare

The rich have never had it so good

By David Sirota — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Taxing the wealthy could help the poor? Not if Congress has anything to do with it

Blue Dogs heel when lobbyists whistle

By Joe Conason — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Why their vaunted "fiscal conservatism" targets health reform -- and never Pentagon waste

Sex and power inside "the C Street House"

By Jeff Sharlet — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Sanford, Ensign, and other regulars receive guidance from the invisible fundamentalist group known as the Family

Bipartisanship is for suckers

By Joe Conason — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Hey, Democrats -- Republicans have no intention of addressing America's healthcare ills. Any reform is up to you

What if they gave a culture war and no one came?

By Mike Madden — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Frank Ricci, this week's poster boy for oppressed white males everywhere, declines to attack Sonia Sotomayor

Tax the wealthy to keep everyone healthy

By Robert Reich — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

It's what the House of Representatives wants to do to pay for healthcare. It's a good idea, and a great slogan

Overheated by clean energy

By Katharine Mieszkowski — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

As the debate over the Waxman-Markey climate bill rages on, Harvard's top environmental economist sheds some light

March Madness on Capitol Hill

By Mike Madden — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Now that everyone knows about AIG's bonuses, Congress decides to get angry about them.

"There's still risk it could all blow up"

By Andrew Leonard — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

AIG's CEO tells Congress that without the bonuses, financial disaster looms. Congress is unpersuaded.

Blinded by the AIG bonuses

By Andrew Leonard — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

At a congressional hearing, Democratic and Republican politicians are outraged. So what else is new?

Stick it in your earmark

By Mike Madden — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

President Obama urges pork reform and signs a bill with earmarks in it on the same day. Republicans make an unconvincing show of outrage.