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Ezra Klein | The Do-Lots Congress: Guess What – It Accomplished Big Things
The votes are (mostly) counted. The Republicans have clearly and decisively won. But did the Democrats actually lose? They lost the election, certainly. And many of them lost their …
Rachel Maddow Interview With Elizabeth Warren: Can America’s Middle Class Be Saved?
Elizabeth Warren, the representative to the President and special advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury, tasked with setting up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, talks with Rachel …
Eleven Ways to Rebuild Our Country
Alexander Hamilton’s strategic proposals for American manufacturing built the greatest industrial powerhouse the world had ever seen -- before they were abandoned.
The American Electorate
GOP Leaders With Poor Green Voting Records to Call the Shots in the House
Washington - Now that Republicans will be calling the shots in the House, the Democratic duo responsible for crafting the polemical cap-and-trade energy legislation are on their way out …
News in Brief: Justices Reject Health Care Review, and More
Justices Reject Health Care Review
Time for a New Theory of Money
By understanding that money is simply credit, we unleash it as a powerful tool for our communities. The reason our financial system has routinely gotten into trouble, with periodic …
Russian Journalist’s Beating Signals Looming Medvedev-Putin Battle
Moscow - Russian journalists are demanding the Kremlin take urgent action after yet another member of the country's beleaguered independent press corps, Kommersant reporter Oleg Kashin, was brutally beaten …
OK Mr. Boehner, Let
This huge and confusing thing we call the United States of America is in the midst of a major epochal reality check, not your usual, garden-variety recession. The roots …
Sexism in the Midterms: Politicians Win, Women Lose
“If Harry Reid had a crazy man to run against, I think he'd be retired today.”