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Ted Cruz's Obamacare nightmare: House Republicans are preparing to improve...

After 50 attempts to repeal it failed, political survival now forces the GOP to accept and fix the law they hate

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Wingnuts are gullible! How GOP's bubble of ignorance keeps leading to...

Why does the right keep falling for false stories about poverty and social programs? Hint: An ideological fixation

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GOP peddles snake oil about Florida election: Lessons from last night's race

Republicans claim that Alex Sink's loss in Florida's 13th House district means Obamacare is toxic. Here's the truth

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Conservatives' backward view of liberty: Why they're so stubborn about...

The right sees threats to religious freedom because they want to preserve the past. But we don't live there anymore

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Surprise! GOP has another Obamacare obsession

Amid new tweaks to the individual mandate, Republicans are convinced they'll finally gut the law. Here's why

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Koch-fueled group's staggering chutzpah: Attacking Obamacare cancellations --...

A new ad campaign from Americans for Prosperity is both clever and audacious (UPDATED)

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Paul Ryan's race flap even worse than it looks

The notion that Ryan was dog-whistling to racists is actually the best-case scenario. Here's the scary alternative

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What Republicans will really do to Obamacare if they win the Senate

With pundits now saying Democrats may lose the Senate, here's what the real consequences of that could be

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Gun lobby’s latest insult to America: A shooting victim’s perspective

How desperately does NRA want to avoid scrutiny of its products and their effects? Here's the newest outrage

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Playing right into GOP's hands: How Democrats could blow it big time on...

The right's Obamacare horror stories may often be false, but here's why they'll stick if the left doesn't change

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Liberals' favorite villain: Why Democrats really love to hate the Koch brothers

The key to the Democrats' strategy: Koch financial and political interests have unpopular ramifications everywhere

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GOP's heartless 2014 strategy is killing its 2016 prospects

Republicans may win back the Senate. But their plan to do it will doom any hopes of taking back the White House

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Right-wing judges face huge moral dilemma: How Hobby Lobby could expose...

The coming case will test what's more sacred to this court: Corporate imperatives or so-called religious liberties

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Republicans losing it over new Obamacare data: Why their position is collapsing

Obamacare enrollment could hit 7 million before the midterms; meanwhile, GOP still has no answer for beneficiaries

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Confusion plagues the right: Why it doesn't understand liberal views of the...

Opposing a religious exemption to the contraception mandate is about more than just principle

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Nate Silver and the ensuing conservative delusion: Dimwits still don't get...

The right hopes putting Silver's projections in context is a sign of liberal "poll-unskewing." Here's the truth

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Erick Erickson inadvertently proves my point: Why the contraception case is...

When I asked a question about corporations adopting religious identities, the responses were rather illuminating

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Tragedy for Republicans: More people will be getting health insurance!

A new grace period for Obamacare enrollment means many will now be covered -- and the right couldn't be more upset

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Scalia & co. can still destroy Obamacare -- without you seeing it coming

Here's the absurd case, currently in a federal appeals court, that could kill subsidies in 36 Healthcare.gov states

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GOP's self-defeating myopia: Why its Obamacare mania is now a gift to Democrats

Turns out the political conventional wisdom around the Affordable Care Act is wrong -- and the right may be sorry

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