Why This Week’s SOTU Was So Much About the Economy

Jonathan Chait wrote a piece yesterday on why Obama felt obliged to devote so much of Tuesday night’s State of...

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Why I Am Not a Republican, Part 326 (Arkansas Medicaid Expansion – Not)

Yet another story illustrating the depravity of today’s Republican Party.  They so hate Obama and so hate the notion of...

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Why King Still Matters

A timely reminder from Ed Kilgore yesterday about why we still need to hear the message of Martin Luther King...

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Unemployment Insurance: GOP Filibusters the Unemployed

Well, the question never even made it to the House.  It appears to have died in the Senate at the...

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Can We Get Help for the Unemployed Out Of the House?

In the course of a worthy rumination on how we might get some relief for Americans who still need unemployment...

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