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Democrats Now Must Face Economy Without Illusions from Dissent.

The Test of Our Progress from The New York Times.

Major-League Asshole -I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX from the Village Voice (I), the New York Observer (II & XXVI), Slate (III & IX), The New York Times (IV, V, VII, X, XII, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XXI, XXII, XXV & XXVIII), Salon (VI, XIII, XX & XXIV), the Washington Post (VIII, XXIII & XXX), WorkingForChange (XI), the LA Times (XIV), the Chicago Tribune (XVII), and the International Herald-Tribune (XXIX).

Playing the Religion Card -I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII from The New York Times (I, IV, VII & XII), the Washington Post (II), the New York Observer (III), TalkingPointsMemo (V), The New Republic (VI), The Nation (VIII), TomPaine (IX & X), The American Prospect (XI & XVI), Salon (XIII), WorkingFor Change (XIV), the Daytona Beach News-Journal (XV), the Boston Globe (XVII), and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (XVIII).

Taxes? Bring 'Em On -I, II, III from Common Dreams (I) and The American Prospect (II & III).

F.C.C.: Broadcasters Must Unmask Propaganda from The Nation.

Study: 'No Child' Slows Student Progress from The New York Times.

Prices Outpace Wages from the LA Times.

It's the Left Whose Politics Is Value Driven from Dissent.

To Hell With the Constitution -I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X from Salon (I & II), the Washington Post (III & X), The Nation (IV), The American Prospect (V), The New York Times (VI), the Center For American Progress (VII & VIII), and In These Times (IX).

Knowledge Is Power from The New York Times.

At Soup Kitchens, the Line Lengthens from The New York Times.

Gonzales: Limit Use of Secret Warrants -I, II from the Washington Post (I) and the Madison Capital Times (II).

GOP: Opportunity Is Bad For You from AlterNet.

This Is How Stupid They Think We Are -I, II from The New York Times (I) and the LA Times (II).

'I Miss My Country' -I, II from Common Dreams (I) and The Hill (II).

Is the Plame Game Over? -I, II from The American Prospect.

Foreclosing the Imagination from the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

The Ugly Legacy of '68 from The American Prospect.

A Nation of Speculators from The Nation.

WMD Report: Lots of Words, Little Accountability -I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII from The Nation (I), the Washington Post (II), The New York Times (III & IV), the LA Times (V), Newsweek (VI), and Slate (VII).

Down to Earth from the LA Times.

A Culture of Enforced Consensus -I, II from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (I) and the Washington Post (II).

Study: Bulk of World's Resources Are Deteriorating from The Guardian.

Inspiring A Purpose Higher Than 'Get Yours' from TomPaine.

For Bush and GOP, Public Opinion Only Matters On Election Day from the Miami Herald.

Hey! Maybe We Could Fix the Budget By Raising Taxes from The New Republic.

Gee, Thanks, George -I, II from the Washington Post (I) and The New York Times (II).

Reshaping the Distorted View of the Right from In These Times.

Military Tribunal Imprisions Detainee Despite Evidence from the Washington Post.

The Democrats' Dilemma from The American Prospect.

When It's Easier to Forget -I, II, III from The Nation (I), The American Prospect (II), and the San Francisco Chronicle (III).

GOP Mods May Broaden Stem-Cell Policy from The New York Times.

Bush's Budget Cuts Are Based On Ideology, Not Results -I, II from TomPaine (I) and The Nation (II).

Trustees: Medicare Is In Far Worse Shape Than Social Security from the Washington Post.

Eminently Disqualified from The New York Times.

For Bush, There Is No Trust from The New Yorker.

Tenured and Clueless from Slate.

Politcizing Schiavo -I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII from the The American Prospect (I & VI), WorkingFor Change (II & X), the New York Observer (III), TomPaine (IV), Salon (V & IX), the Washington Post (VII & XII), The New York Times (VIII & XIII), and The Nation (XI).

The Great Divide from Common Dreams.

Welcome to the Roulette Economy from the LA Times.

The Real Social Security Debate Is Ideological from The New Republic.

Crybaby Conservatives -I, II, III from The Nation (I), Mother Jones (II), and The New York Times (III).

BBC: Well Before the War, U.S. Had Plans For Iraqi Oil from BBC News.

War Demands Deplete Military from the Washington Post.

In A Less Agonistic Voice from the LA Times.

Here Comes Another One -I, II, III, IV from the Washington Post (I), The Nation (II), Salon (III), The New York Times (IV).

It's the Product, Stupid from Slate.

Democracy and Absolutism Don't Mix -I, II from The New Republic (I) and The New York Times (II).

Karen Ryan, 'Reporting' -I, II, III, IV, V, VI from The New York Times (I & IV), Democracy Now! (II), Salon (III), and the Washington Post (V & VI).

Anger Management from The New York Times Magazine.

For DeLay, Pals Pay the Way -I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX from The New York Times (I, IX, XI & XVIII), the Washington Post (II, IV,  V, X, XV, XVII & XIX), the LA Times (III & XII), Think Progress (VI), WorkingFor Change (VII & XIV), Salon (VIII), and The Nation (XVI).

GOP Yields On Ethics Rules from the Washington Post.

Justice Unit Defends Discrimination to Defeat It from the LA Times.

Math Tip: You Can't Bank A Zero -I, II from The American Prospect.

'Clear-Skies' Bill Stumbles from the Washington Post.

Freedom On the March? It's Barely Begun to Walk -I, II, III  from the Washington Post (I), the Boston Globe (II), and TomPaine (III).

A Well-Calculated Seed from the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Voltaire's Complaint -I, II, III from The New Yorker (I), The Guardian (II), and the LA Times (III).

Bush EPA Pick Wins Plaudits; But What About Power? from the Washington Post.

Washington Is Ignoring Economic Realities from the Washington Monthly.

It's Over, Grover -I, II, III from the Washington Monthly (I), the Washington Post (II), and The New York Times (III).

'Starve-the-Beast' Strategy Collides With Reality from The New York Times.

If All the Press Is Biased, All We'll Have Are Red-State Facts and Blue-State Facts -I, II from Salon (I) and Slate (II).

We Have Enough to Do -I, II from Slate (I) and the Washington Post (II).

Frist: Social Security May Wait -I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII from the Washington Post (I & IV), Salon (II), The New York Times (III, VII & VIII), the LA Times (V), and Talking PointsMemo (VI).

The Disappeared -I, II, III, IV, V from The New Yorker (I), The New York Times (II, III & V), and the Washington Post (IV).

In Union Vote, Wal-Mart Stacks the Deck from The New York Times.

Bankruptcy Bill Writes Off Principle -I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII from The New Republic (I), the Washington Post (II & VII), Demos (III), The New York Times (IV & VIII), WorkingForChange (V), the LA Times (VI & XI), Salon (IX), The New York Times Magazine (X), and The American Prospect (XIII).

Losing Ground: 'Liberated' Iraqi Women Now Face Hard-Liners from Newsweek.

The Real Crisis: Social Security Is Far From Our Biggest Problem -I, II, III, IV, V, VI from The New York Review of Books (I), The New York Times (II & V), Common Dreams (III), Salon (IV), and TalkingPointsMemo (VI).

To Cut, Start Here -I, II from Slate.

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