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Kevin Drum suggests that Senate Democrats bring up the ACA repeal bill in order to vote it down. And: But wait! With Republicans in contro...

I liked what Ezra Klein said about Kent Conrad earlier today. I've followed his career quite a bit, too, since I worked for another Nor...

Holy Joe's retirement closes the book, more or less, on a great question: was the decision by liberals to go all in on the primary chall...

I hate to be a scold, but... Dave Weigel noticed yesterday that the number of Americans who think that Barack Obama is helping or will he...

Digby was paying attention to the House debate on health care yesterday, and noted that Republican Phil Gingrey of Georgia mocked HHS statis...

Robert Dallek has a nice article today in Salon about the puzzling post-presidential reputation of John F. Kennedy , who shows no sign of sl...

1. OK, so we've now had an ACA repeal vote in the House. But it's worth noting that as far as I'm aware, John Boehner has not ye...