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Why Mitt Romney still poses the greatest challenge to Obama in 2012

Old-fashioned street demonstrations and picket lines are enjoying their most popular moment since the late 1960s.

The story of the Democratic Party — at least during those times when the party has advanced progressive causes — has been a story of expanding the franchise. From the time of Andrew Jackson, when Democrats eliminated the property requirements for white male voting; to the era of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the labor movement, […]

By kowtowing to the deficit hawks, the president is snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory.

Recent, radical attacks on abortion rights are the legacy of decades of compromise.

Obama must resist the Republican push to cut federal spending or else face voters in 2012 with continued high unemployment.

On becoming an anti-intellectual intellectual

Democrats no longer need the South, but the region needs them.

It’s not that the political conversation is poisoned with violent rhetoric. It’s that it’s not a conversation at all.

The recession will take its biggest toll on the states this year. We could fix that.