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Will 2010's tally reflect the changing face of America?


How the mortgage industry stole black America's hard-won wealth.



The violence in Arizona is about more than Sarah Palin's semantics. It's an indictment of decades' worth of right-wing enemy-in-our-midst...
The president said many objectionable things in selling his tax- cut plan, but his assertions about America's history of compromising was...
Obama must realize he's fighting about more than tax cuts. It's a defining battle and he can win, if he'd just join it.
This week’s Republican "tsunami" is textbook politics: voters united around, well, the same frustrations they had two...
The recessionâ€™s legacy will be an unprecedentedly imbalanced, winner-takes-all economy.
The massive job losses between 2008 and 2009 were surely the biggest factor in the record poverty numbers the Census just reported. But...
As long as rightwingers remain the loudest voices talking about race, they'll continue to dominate the conversation.
The Democrats' timid rejoinder to the GOP's summer of demagoguery reveals how afraid they are of debating our defining values.