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Obama is getting praise from all the wrong people.
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Is the SOFA takes effect, Kurds could find themselves not only on the opposite side of the trench against the Iraqi army, but U.S. troops as well.
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While we deliberate major economic transformation, there are good ideas waiting on the shelf right now the new president can green light.
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Dobbs got nervous after a news conference on link between the rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric and hate crimes against Latinos.
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Clinton's task abroad would be much like the one she and Obama just faced: to turn an adversarial relationship into an alliance.
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The rules of the digital era aren't clear, even to the generation that has grown up in it.
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Pop culture vampires have always reflected cultural anxieties about sex. "Twilight", the new teen box office blockbuster, is no exception.
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Pop culture vampires have always reflected cultural anxieties about sex. "Twilight", the new teen box office blockbuster, is no exception.
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Obama's 'grass-roots' movement revolves around him, not progressive issues.
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The Court fails to recognize the reality of how the vast majority of ill Californians in need of medical marijuana need to get access to it.
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The incidence of type 2 diabetes has almost doubled in the last decade. And Hispanics are disproportionately affected.
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Iraq lawmakers approved the U.S. security pact Thursday, ending months of wrangling between Baghdad and Washington.
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The swelling numbers waiting outside homeless shelters and food pantries around the country have grown by at least 30 percent since the summer.
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Americans are bombarded with messages that death and danger are just around the corner. Reality is usually much different.
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Instead, we should atone for the genocide that was incited -- and condoned -- by the very men we idolize as our 'heroic' founding fathers.
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Unlike Alaska's governor, most Americans don't want to see the transformations their turkey went through to get to their Thanksgiving dinner table.
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Unemployment is soaring and it may be March before we feel the first dollar of an Obama recovery plan.
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Games like Second Life let you to live your fantasy as a pimp, prostitute or pirate, knight, dominatrix, or any other self-created design you see fit.
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Evangelical Palin supporters ignore politically inconvenient Bible passages that say only men should be rulers.
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Games like Second Life let you to live your fantasy as a pimp, prostitute or pirate, knight, dominatrix, or any other self-created design you see fit.
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Harvey Milk inspired hundreds of thousands of people in his lifetime. The new film "Milk" will let him reach millions more.
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A new administration that has raised such high expectations should look for new ideas, not recycle the bad ones of the last few years.
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But the Minnesota Democrat's latest hurdle to a U.S. Senate seat might affect the GOP's senate candidate in Georgia's upcoming runoff election.
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But the Minnesota Democrat's latest hurdle to a U.S. Senate seat might affect the GOP's senate candidate in Georgia's upcoming runoff election.
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I'm a prisoner of America's Drug War, serving a 27-year sentence for a non-violent crime.
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I'm a prisoner of America's Drug War, serving a 27-year sentence for a non-violent crime.
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Relaxation is important, but retirement may well be overrated.
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The obscenely wealthy still have enough money to buy massive super-yachts and overpriced art.
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A special debt audit commission released a report charging that much of Ecuador's foreign debt was illegitimate or illegal.
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We don't need the "everything sucks" analysis; Obama has mobilized millions of activists and that energy is looking for an outlet.
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A Texas jury's guilty decision in the nation's largest terrorism financing trial since 9/11 reawakens the injustices of Bush's War on Terror.
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How to counter 10 of the most common myths conservatives believe about progressives.
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Tackling the Pentagon, with its mega-budget and its mega-power, may be the hardest task Obama faces.
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Obama's early list of names for his staff doesn't bode well for all the progressive policy promises Obama made during the campaign.
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Advice for a healthier, humane, sustainable, "low carb(on)" and labor friendly Thanksgiving from some fantastic organizations.
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Mark Ritchie -- the man in the middle of Minnesota's Senate race recount -- is passionate about making sure every vote counts.
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Obama's early list of names for his staff doesn't bode well for all the progressive policy promises Obama made during the campaign.
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The failed defense secretary pens a historical cover-up on Iraq and reveals more wild stupidity with his advice on Afghanistan.
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The failed defense secretary pens a historical cover-up on Iraq and reveals more wild stupidity with his advice on Afghanistan.
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America is a decidedly center-left nation, especially on the issue of health care. Obama now has a budget imperative to reform it immediately.
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America is a decidedly center-left nation, especially on the issue of health care. Obama now has a budget imperative to reform it immediately.
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The ongoing Senate races in Minnesota and Georgia highlight America's disparate systems of voting and auditing the count.
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A hip-hop artist and a former Detroit police sergeant are among 16 people to be pardoned or to have their prison sentences commuted by President Bush.
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Neglecting aid to the developing world, and fixating on the financial mess, will negatively affect Western nations.
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Neglecting aid to the developing world, and fixating on the financial mess, will negatively affect Western nations.
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European countries are increasingly trading liberty for "some temporary security."
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In Arizona, immigrants protest Sheriff Joe's nativist agenda.
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European countries are increasingly trading liberty for "some temporary security."
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It's hard to believe that as recently as 2000, people could smoke on planes.
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Obama has picked too many failures who are in the process of recalibrating everything they've ever believed.
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Timothy Geithner is an architect, and now an enabler, of the unfolding crisis.
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The good, the bad and the ugly of this political season's media coverage of women.
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Today's global financial cloud got you feeling gray? Vermonter Jim Merkel sees a silver lining.
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Why squander our remaining resources on a lifestyle that doesn't have a future?
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We can't ignore science like Bill Clinton did and install a drug czar who will ignore science and push dogma.
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Timothy Geithner is an architect, and now an enabler, of the unfolding crisis.
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Prominent writers for DailyKos, the country's top liberal blog, are launching a new site to scrutinize and pressure the Democratic Congress.
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The diverse group of activists rallied in support of building a peace economy and movement beyond election day.
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Despite recent heartbreaking setbacks, things are better for gay Americans now than at any other time in the nation's history.
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Despite recent heartbreaking setbacks, things are better for gay Americans now than at any other time in the nation's history.
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"This type of spending is indefensible and unacceptable to Citigroup's new partner and largest investor: the American taxpayer."
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Apparently some police officers have a bone to pick with Taser International Inc.
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Obama needs a defense secretary with the courage to speak out and halt the lunacy of more war, not a yes-man Bush holdover.
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The financial meltdown and economic crisis illustrated that corporations will destroy even themselves in search of profit.
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"You should be more afraid of the new political climate in America, because, there is no place for you in it."
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There's no definitive legal consensus on whether a president can pardon himself. But Bush may well give the theorists an answer.
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With newfound bailout money in their wallets, big banks have been rushing to gobble up smaller ones.
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Citizen diplomats push hard to establish peaceful diplomacy with Iran. Let's hope Obama takes the same approach.
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Citizen diplomats push hard to establish peaceful diplomacy with Iran. Let's hope Obama takes the same approach.
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Women's rights advocates are scrambling to make up for an unexpected shortage of cash to fund a push for female appointees to Obama's Cabinet.
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Research is confirming the medicinal effects that advocates have long claimed for meditation.
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We've got to think about our choices for the future collectively, seeking cooperation rather than competition.
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No more free money from Washington. No more masters of the universe. No more business as usual. Time for a banking holiday.
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A new book by the award-winning photojournalist Nina Berman probes how the U.S. homeland security apparatus stokes fantasies about war.
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The scary fact is that the plot of the new Bond film is eerily true and an environmental nightmare.
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My great-great-grandmother was born a slave in Virginia. Should I not have the right to marry, just like my grandmother, simply because I am gay?
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Enough is enough. It's time to repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws, a 36-year failed experiment in racism, injustice and government waste.
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The American worker doesn't want a handout. Never did. We do want a hand up from our government.
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The scary fact is that the plot of the new Bond film is eerily true and an environmental nightmare.
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A new book by the award-winning photojournalist Nina Berman probes how the U.S. homeland security apparatus stokes fantasies about war.
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A recent Salon article declared 'First Lady Got Back.' Does the piece tap into racist assumptions about black women's sexuality?
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The scary fact is that the plot of the new Bond film is eerily true and an environmental nightmare.
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It takes an angry truck driver who threatened the hate-spewing host to wonder, "Is this who we've become?"
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The Wall is being constructed over the objections of communities living near the border.
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The Wall is being constructed over the objections of communities living near the border.
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The Wall is being constructed over the objections of communities living near the border.
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Under the Status of Forces Agreement awaiting passage, private military contractors would be subject to Iraqi criminal and civil law.
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Under the Status of Forces Agreement awaiting passage, private military contractors would be subject to Iraqi criminal and civil law.
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The media are telling Obama to ditch the agenda he won on and appease electorally humiliated Republicans. This is the last thing he should do.
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Wherever we go, our "stuff" goes with us -- in such large quantities that removing it could prove more daunting than invading in the first place.
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Deep-pocketed conservatives have long dominated the media landscape. If we want real change, it's time for progressives to fight fire with fire.
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When the Big Three's best Rep. lost a key committee spot, their share prices dropped. That's not just business as usual, it's a sign of corruption.
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Congress might adjourn without acting on the deepening economic crisis, leaving Obama to inherit the catastrophe.
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Female spies have been the subject of cultural fascination since Mata Hari, but the realities they face are quite different from fiction.
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Unlike Ah-nold, no woman will ever burst into high political office without a lick of experience. And women with credentials don't fare much better.
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When the Big Three's best Rep. lost a key committee spot, their share prices dropped. That's not just business as usual, it's a sign of corruption.
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When the Big Three's best Rep. lost a key committee spot, their share prices dropped. That's not just business as usual, it's a sign of corruption.
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Female spies have been the subject of cultural fascination since Mata Hari, but the realities they face are quite different from fiction.
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When the Big Three's best Rep. lost a key committee spot, their share prices dropped. That's not just business as usual, it's a sign of corruption.
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Emanuel's history and positions give plenty of cause for concern.
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According to the Facebook ads surrounding my profile, I'm in dire need of a relationship and a diet. My male friends get no such advice.
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From women's reproductive health worldwide, to child care and equal pay, women activists are ready to speak with Obama about what needs to be done.
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In a courtroom out of the public eye, and with prisoners allowed only limited access to the proceedings, the judge still found no reason to hold them.
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A groundbreaking study has found that pills given to U.S. and British troops to counter nerve gas is one of the causes of Gulf War Syndrome.
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A groundbreaking study has found that pills given to U.S. and British troops to counter nerve gas is one of the causes of Gulf War Syndrome.
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It used to be chic to be seen at the gym with expensive bottled water. Now, the plastic throw-aways are a no-no.
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One of the greatest threats to our water and our health may come from a process involved in natural gas drilling. But EPA is keeping mum.
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Bill Clinton's alleged lurch to the left in '92 is being used to push Obama to the right. Problem is, it never happened.
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A who's who guide to the people poised to shape Obama's foreign policy.
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A dystopian sci-fi fantasy may soon be coming to fruition on a battlefield near you.
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Government and greedy bankers aren't the only ones to blame.
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Change may well be coming to Washington. But the public discourse about women has taken several steps backward.
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The bailout should be used to expand unemployment compensation instead of propping up a single, failing corporation.
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Latinos backed Obama by a 2-to-1 margin on election day and could be the biggest force behind a longterm, center-left political realignment.
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