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Seniors depend more on federal spending than any other group, but that did not deter a majority of them from voting for candidates who deplored “big government” and “socialized medicine.”

The Republican majority intends to underplay its hand rather than take responsibility for governing.

The story that must be told isn’t one of big government and deficits but of power and privilege amassing at the top.

Women’s representation in Congress has actually decreased for the first time in the past three decades.

With a conservative Congress, Obama can invoke Truman, Clinton, or Carter.

If “ideas have consequences,” as conservatives like to say, what’s the consequence of having none?

On reading Gjertrud Schnackenberg

We shouldn’t assure gay teens that their lives will get better without also pledging to make equality a reality.

In a few years, we’ll be able to do without publishers.

Obama’s base still wants a positive political experience — not just a set of policy positions.