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(Actually, it was on Saturday.) I just read Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (W.W. Norton, 2009), by Kim Phillips-Fein. It’s …

Nebraska is one of just two states which allocates its Electoral College votes by congressional district — a fact that enabled President Obama to win one electoral vote in …

Washington - “Class warfare!” scream the Republicans, in a voice usually reserved for phrases such as “Run for your lives!” Spare us the histrionics. The GOP and …

(Image: Chelsea Green) It was a warm Thursday afternoon on August 5, 2010, in a remote woodland of the Hindu Kush mountains when a band of men …

To My Closest of Friends President and Professor Barack Obama, I send this missive to you with deepest urgency. My embarrassment at importuning you in any …

Rag Radio's Tracey Schulz (left) and Thorne Dreyer, with guest Carl Davidson at the KOOP studios in Austin, Friday, Sept. 9. (Photo: Jim Cleveland / KOOP Radio / The …

Atlanta - Troy Davis, whose death row case ignited an international campaign to save his life, has lost what appeared to be his last attempt to avoid death by …

The Keystone XL pipeline, recently approved by the US State Department and awaiting President Obama’s declaration that it is in the “national interest,” will carry oil that is too …

Lawrence O'Donnell gets analysis from former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich on President Obama's plan for taxin the rich as a way to cut the deficit.

Michael Moore, author of “Here Comes Trouble” talks with Rachel Maddow about President Obama's call for closing tax loopholes and higher tax rates for the extremely rich and the …