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Washington couldn’t have gone dark without a radicalized Republican Party. Or maybe it was destined to all along.

To pass health care, he’ll need to find a way to harness that most stubborn of species: centrist senators.

The president’s rhetoric has helped make change seem possible in Iran and the Middle East. Now comes the hard part.

With health care and climate change on the agenda, the next hundred are more important than the first. Get ready for the Summer of Shove.

Sure, Cheney and friends could be prosecuted for torture-related offenses. But could they be convicted?

How the Year of the Woman reinforced the two most pernicious sexist stereotypes and actually set women back.

Ted and Caroline anointed Barack Obama as the candidate best qualified to carry on the JFK legacy. But to live up to it, he has to put it in the past.

The women of �Hillaryland� have constructed a carefully managed, always on-message, leakproof campaign. But is this a good thing?

Hillary Clinton’s competence-based campaign has been stealthily making progress. But two bios put her persona back in the spotlight.

Think Karl Rove is losing on Social Security and Schiavo? Those are mere tactical skirmishes�he’s got a grander prize in mind.