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A long-overdue investigative article appears in the Thursday New York Times that shreds the Republican Party's claims of rampant voter fraud: Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually...

A long-overdue investigative article appears in the Thursday New York Times that shreds the Republican Party's claims of rampant voter fraud: Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually...

Why should you care about a spat over a near-bankrupt group of health care facilities outside Washington? As Alec Dubro points out in an article today on TomPaine.com, what's happening there is symptomatic of a larger national problem of health care for the poor and...

Below are excerpts from yesterday's MoveOn.org Virtual Town Hall, regarding diplomatic strategy: From Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.: ...you have to make Iraq the world’s problems. Were I President, I would call for the permanent five of the Security Council, along with...

Below are excerpts from yesterday's MoveOn.org Virtual Town Hall, regarding the issue of permanent occupation of Iraq. From Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.: I’m against building permanent US Military bases in Iraq, and I’ve led this fight to make sure we don’t do that. Last...

Below are excerpts from yesterday's MoveOn.org Virtual Town Hall, regarding how Congress can use the power of the purse to end the war in Iraq. From former Sen. John Edwards: That funding authority’s still the most powerful check we have. If congress is willing to use...

Below are excerpts from yesterday's MoveOn.org Virtual Town Hall, regarding the presidential candidates' view on what should happen after President's Bush expected veto of the Iraq war supplemental bill. From

Last night, MoveOn.org hosted the first "Virtual Town Hall," where MoveOn members from across the nation posed questions to seven Democratic candidates for president. (Some Republican candidates were invited also, but all declined.) Campaign for America's Future...

Today on TomPaine.com I offer my take on the Don Imus controversy, as well as that of Earl Ofari Hutchinson, who writes on another critical aspect of the flap for AlterNet. Yes, it's well-worn ground, but there are a couple of points that I thought it was important to...

The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire reports that the Senate's version of a bill lifting the ban on Medicare negotiating for lower drug prices, will be taken up in committee on Thursday. The expectation is that the full Senate will vote on it next week....