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November 4, 2009
The filibuster has become a cancer growing inside the world's greatest deliberative body.
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October 7, 2009
The quickest way to Rahm Emanuel's bad side: put progressive pressure on conservative Democrats.
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September 23, 2009
The ACORN tapes and the Inequality of Accountability.
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September 23, 2009
If banks were people, here's what the full $17.5 trillion bailout would look like.
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August 26, 2009
An effective investigation into the breadth of the CIA's interrogation programs must be bipartisan, similar to the work of the Church Committee in the 1970s.
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July 29, 2009
With healthcare reform, the White House has transformed an intimate issue into a technical argument about long-term actuarial projections.
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July 28, 2009
The future of progressive politics and the nature of the American social contract, not to mention the lives and health of millions of our fellow citizens, are up for grabs.
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June 24, 2009
How can we expect the experts to reform the financial system when it's experts who got us into this mess to begin with?
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June 17, 2009
How will Washington recalibrate the share of gains captured by shareholders, executives and workers in a post-crash economy?
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June 3, 2009
Grassroots activists take on the banking industry on the question of bankruptcy reform.
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May 20, 2009
Congress, at the behest of the banking industry, has changed accounting rules to make company balance sheets even more opaque. How is that going to help?
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April 22, 2009
Three months into the Obama era, the euphoria of the election has begun to dissipate.
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April 15, 2009
The Virginia senator's willingness to take up this cause is evidence that the culture gap may be closing.
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April 8, 2009
For the Labor Department damaged by eight years of Bush neglect, help is finally on the way.
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April 2, 2009
A tax loophole could let the ten largest paper companies rake in a whopping $8 billion. Where's the outrage?
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March 26, 2009
Despite Obama's inaugural call for a New Era of Responsibility, the old cynicism threatens a comeback.
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March 18, 2009
A new kind of economic populism is driving grassroots protests to nationalize, reorganize and decentralize the financial system.
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March 18, 2009
Every Democratic elected official must answer an old but newly relevant question: are you for or against labor unions?
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March 11, 2009
Meet hospital magnate Rick Scott, the face of GOP resistance to healthcare reform. Oh, and did we mention the mass fraud perpetrated by the hospital chain he helped found?
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March 4, 2009
An act of civil disobedience at a coal-fired generator in DC shows the movement to halt global warming is now in its second act.
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February 25, 2009
The White House plan to keep homeowners out of foreclosure seems to have the stick-to-carrot ratio about right.
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February 18, 2009
Tough love from the Congressional Oversight Panel involves ripping the Band-Aid--otherwise known as TARP--off the mortally wounded banking system.
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February 11, 2009
Reining in the Pentagon's wanton spending habits is going to be a long, hard slog.
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February 11, 2009
Why do the Blue Dog Democrats get so much attention? They're more unified and cohesive than any other House faction. And then there's America's love affair with fiscal conservatism.
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February 4, 2009
As Larry Summers takes a dominant role in crafting economic policy, it's up to Joe Biden to protect the interests of the middle class.
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January 28, 2009
Why do people like Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Gary Gensler keep getting the Obama administration's plum jobs?
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January 22, 2009
Washington desperately needs new blood. Will Obama's people provide the necessary transfusion?
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