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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

Good timing, John Boehner

By Alex Koppelman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

The House minority leader attacks Dems for introducing empty resolutions -- while his members do the same

The tax breaks that ate America

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

The greatest threat to the U.S. economy is not creeping socialism. It's creeping subsidism

The waiting is the hardest part

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

Don't worry, Senate Democrats and the White House say, healthcare negotiations will be done soon enough

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

Fox News isn't even pretending anymore

By Gene Lyons — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Want proof that journalism has devolved into entertainment? Watch "the communications arm of the Republican Party"

Are we bipartisan now?

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

All that effort yields just one Republican vote for healthcare reform -- but the White House isn't counting

Relax. You'll love healthcare cooperatives! Honest

By Steven Hill — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Liberals want a public option, and see co-ops as a sellout. But if Congress passes co-ops, don't fret. They work

Deal with it, liberals

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

Will Democrats make progressives accept a healthcare bill that doesn't include the public option?

Max Baucus wants to come home

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

The Finance chair moves his committee along on healthcare reform -- and tries to make up with his fellow Democrats

Intellectual conservatism, RIP

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

I was once a young neoconservative. The word meant something different then, before it was hijacked by extremists

How can Obama top a great speech?

By Joan Walsh — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

By ignoring GOP hooligans and getting his fellow Democrats behind his compelling vision of healthcare reform

Is the GOP a cult?

By Gene Lyons — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

Even some Republicans said their party had gone overboard in criticizing Obama for giving a speech to schoolkids

Why a "trigger" for the public option is nonsense

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

GOP Sen. Snowe suggests we give private health insurers a shot at reforming themselves first. Yeah, right

Is something better than nothing on healthcare?

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

The White House is arguing there's a choice between change and the status quo. But that may not make the left happy

A party is not a movement

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

In 2008, progressive groups subverted their own agendas in the name of electoral unity. Where does that leave them?

A cake knife is useless in a gunfight

By Gene Lyons — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

President Obama has only himself to blame for the healthcare reform quagmire

On healthcare, Democrats need to be like GOP

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

Republicans are winning on healthcare for one reason: Discipline

Bill Moyers on the health care debate, Democrats, and Afghanistan

By Glenn Greenwald — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:00 PST

"These narrow interests win no matter how many Democrats are elected, no matter who controls the levers of power."

Ted Kennedy wanted the public option

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

His list of achievements is epic, but he worked to fix healthcare for 40 years. Let's finish the job in his name

Teddy Kennedy and the art of the deal

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

Would the public option pass if he were around? Maybe not: The Senate's liberal conscience was also a horse-trader

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

Liberalism without labor unions?

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

Hey Democrats: Can liberal interest groups and social elites really form the basis of a successful political party?

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