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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) , Obamacare, in a blow to rightwing activists and a polit...

A look back at January 2010. Paul Starr came out vigorously for passing health care reform into law, narrowly held as constitutional b...

Think the Koch Brothers are trying to buy the presidency, having already bought off Scott Walker. Obama's reelection team certainly do...

Delivering the Dept of Veterans Affairs (DVA) education benefits from the Post-9/11 GI Bill is one area the DVA does not want to screw up a...

Paul Starr has come out vigorously for passing even the U.S. Senate version of health care reform into law. Starr's advocacy in the page...

Three economists who during the Bush-Cheney years became political-economic pundits of sorts are sounding the macro-economic alarm. As Presi...

Some forty-five years after the passage of the first civil rights legislation guided into law by JFK and LBJ, the civil rights and peace mov...

James Vega has a piece in the Democratic Strategist arguing in essence: If there is an escalation in Afghanistan—progressives, peace-minde...

As the corporate bought-and-paid-for Blue Dogs do their worst to ensure that health care reform is not universal, President Obama faces anot...

President Obama's election was an inspiring event in American history. What brought out the passionate outpouring of support for Obama...

Update : National Review's Michael Rubin caught writing about Obama's speech without listening to, or reading the speech. Typical...

One thing Obama will not back off from is Health Care. Most readers here would like to see single payer on the table, but getting anything f...

Marcy Wheeler has an important piece in Salon naming the The Torture 13 . These key Bush administration officials authorized it, decided ho...

Among one of very bad things that the GOP hates Obama for is healthcare reform to guarantee that every American will have access to what is...

Update : A reader recommends a March piece by Paul Krugman in which he blasts the bank bailout plan . "But Treasury is still clinging t...

Update : Greenwald: We wouldn't want to inflame anti-American sentiment : We're currently occupying two Muslim countries. We're...

Update : See Too Much To Handle? Why I expect Obama's poll numbers to plummet soon at TNR by John Judis . Via Robert Kuttner : 'Par...

You offshore American jobs and people lose their jobs. No good, not for Americans and not for the economy. Krugman offer some advice against...

If you want to know why RNC Chair Michael Steele and his allies have become so shrill, it's not only because these guys are unhinged. Th...

Michael Goodwin's piece in the New York Daily News this morning is a ridiculous knock that Obama is to be feared because the public is ...