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So, say you're the Bush administration. If you've invaded a country and launched an occupation that's cost thousands of American lives, untold Iraqi lives, and shattered others, and left some damaged beyond repair, what do you do if — after pouring over 600,000...

Part I Part II The conservative worldview has succeeded so wildly -- and is still holding such tenacious sway over the ways Americans approach their current stack of problems -- because the conservatives started out 30 years ago with a focused plan that put promoting...

Pollster Celinda Lake says that this year can be as pivotal for progressives as 1980 was for conservatives—but only if the progressive movement takes crucial steps to solidify its ideological narrative and sell it to voters. We can't take political victory for...

Disturbing job losses. Contentious fight over whether telecom companies can break the law and violate consumer privacy without accountability. Critical legislation that could put us on the path to a clean energy future. None of these issues raised by the Watchdog...

A new study suggests that conservatives are happier than liberals. But before conservatives start gloating, there’s something else to consider. Being happy is a cinch, if you can rationalize not caring about injustice and inequality.

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....

You would think that after the latest dismal jobs report that the Bush administration would stop the spinning. But, no. For two straight months, the Bureau of of Labor Statistics confirms, the economy has been losing jobs, and most acutely the kinds of jobs, such as...

Part Five of a series. Something's happening out there. It's happening quietly in some places and not-so-quietly in others. It's happening around kitchen tables and in living rooms across the country, as Americans come to grips with new — or, to them,...

A stubborn conservative minority in the U.S. Senate in December stood in the way of sensible energy legislation that would shift tax breaks away from Big Oil, which doesn't need them, and toward renewable energy companies that do. All indications are they would do it...