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For over a decade, our vets have been leading the way overseas. It's about time we welcome them back with jobs so they can lead the way at home. Because really, if we can't support the folks we ask to fight and die for our country, then it's about time for a national gut-check.
Things are falling into shape for Democrats to keep control of the Senate and regain control of the House.
The secretive and unaccountable Super Committee is meeting behind closed doors and proposing devastating cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid that would be shouldered by the 99%.
In a week that marked the 34th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, it's once again time to sing his old hit: "We need a little less conversation, a lot more action."
It's strange that President Obama doesn't show any indignation about our long slide into economic oblivion. He's certainly not "fighting mad" about it. He draws a line in the sand, the Republicans cross it, then he steps back and draws another line in the sand.
Donations from big companies' charitable foundations are just one way in which funds flow to lawmakers' pet charities but remain out of the public eye.
There might be plenty of time to campaign in 2012 but the campaigning for the GOP nomination has begun in earnest in 2011 and will continue throughout the year in complete disregard of the president's wishes.
The Blue Dogs are right about campaign strategy in some conservative districts -- but they greatly overstate their case. Granularity is usually lost in our political narrative, and the numbers suggest subtle, diverging politics.
I grew up in Seattle. I left for over 30 years and returned three years ago. What I found was a vibrant, intellectual, creative community that has a mind of its own. That was made clear once again in this week's election.
It is often the least of these who have the most at stake in elections. Nov. 2, 2010, was a night of reckoning for advocates of working people, immigr...
This Senate election in Washington State turns on a few key campaign slogans. And Dino Rossi, if elected, will join a Republican caucus in making life hard in order to win back the government.
Suppose the friends you dragged to the polls helped America reject the anonymous corporate dollars that threaten to drown our democracy?
In the wake of Citizens United, with corporations pumping in unprecedented levels of dollars through shadowy front groups, we need to make their spending the salient issue in every message we put forth.
As economists warn against the danger of a monopoly of industry in distorting and destroying an economy, our two party monopoly on government is causing similar effects on our political system.
Attacks on the minimum wage are the final resort of business to maintain profitability in markets put into decline by their own anti-labor agenda.
We should be a nation of Patty Murrays: real, rational and tough. And while her opponent may have eight times the money, Patty has her tennis shoes and my admiration, for what that's worth.
