Lance Selfa There are two wrong interpretations of the November 3 election results circulating in the political establishment and among its chatterers.
November 6, 2009 The insurance companies are attacking health care legislation, but their recently issued report shows how they will try to profit off reform.
October 22, 2009 Like the 19th century railroad barons who built their fortunes from the public trough, the health care lobbies can spot a bonanza in the making.
October 8, 2009 Barack Obama's speech to Congress seemed to help him regain momentum on health care legislation. The question is whether that is a good thing.
September 16, 2009 Ted Kennedy is being remembered as a liberal stalwart--but also as a bipartisan dealmaker ready to set ideals aside. Those were always two sides of the same coin.
August 28, 2009 It's time to dismiss the idea that the Democrats' good intentions are simply falling victim to a multimillion-dollar campaign by medical industry lobbyists.
August 18, 2009 The health care industry could never get away with selling the proposals masquerading as "reform" in Washington. That's what Democrats are for.
August 3, 2009 Some of Barack Obama's most ardent supporters are unsettled by the administration's failure to pursue a bold agenda for reform.
June 29, 2009 Fewer then six months into the new administration, we're finding out that beneath the rhetoric of "change" lies more continuity than many expected.
June 8, 2009 Despite what conservatives claim, liberalism is not a version of "socialism." Rather, it's one way to run the capitalist economy and uphold the status quo.
May 13, 2009 The Democrats are making the running to be big capital's favorite again--which explains why the "party of the people" is so quick to help Wall Street.
April 14, 2009 Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has been criticized for what he hasn't done, like stopping those AIG bonuses. But what's worse is what he has done.
March 23, 2009 The Republican Party is clinging to policies and rhetoric that millions have rejected. But will Obama deliver a real alternative?
March 5, 2009 The era of conservative dominance in Washington has run aground, but the purveyors and defenders of the right-wing agenda remain in high places.
February 26, 2009 Barack Obama has been president for three weeks, and it already seems like he has lost his stride.
February 10, 2009 The Republicans and big business are road-testing their approach to the Employee Free Choice Act. How will Obama and organized labor respond?
January 30, 2009 Barack Obama's inauguration signifies the arrival of a new era in U.S. politics--but its exact shape depends on the struggle from below.
January 20, 2009 Amid the worldwide tide of denunciations of Israel for its bloody invasion of Gaza, there's one place you won't hear a peep of criticism: Washington, D.C.
January 9, 2009 Wiretaps implicating Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich provide a window into the way government really works in the "world's greatest democracy."
December 18, 2008 Barack Obama's foreign policy appointees illustrate the gap between his campaign rhetoric about "change" and the reality of "more of the same."
December 12, 2008 As Barack Obama fills his White House with veterans of Bill Clinton's administration, the question is: Will this be a rerun of the Clinton years?
November 25, 2008 Despite everything that Election 2008 showed, there's no shortage of pundits insisting that the U.S. is too conservative to embrace real change.
November 12, 2008 The right thinks he's a socialist. But many supporters have a parallel belief--that Barack Obama will reveal his true progressive nature in the White House.
October 31, 2008 Liberal supporters of Obama are taking a two-pronged approach--ignore Obama's gestures toward the right and accentuate any difference with McCain.
October 24, 2008 The next president will inherit a devastating economic crisis. So what impact would that have on the agenda of a future Obama administration?
October 9, 2008
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