Articles: Politics
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Young, Invincible — and the Key to Health Reform
The willingness of young people to forgo insurance is a major problem for the health-care system. The Senate Finance Committee thinks it has just the strategy to bring these Americans into the fold
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The Risks for Dems Going It Alone on Health Care
It is looking increasingly likely that Democrats will have to go it alone on health care, which is just how Republicans like it
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Senate Democrats Grapple with a Suddenly Less Promising 2010
They may not be anywhere near regaining the majority, but Senate Republicans at least have reason to believe that 2008 was their rock bottom
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Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?
Glenn Beck is channeling the fears and anger of Americans who feel left out — but is he also stirring that anger and heightening those fears?
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5 Things Dems Don't Like About the Baucus Bill
Montana Senator Max Baucus unveiled his much anticipated health-care bill with confident declarations that he could still gain some Republican support, but his bigger problem may be Democrats who don't like many aspects of his centrist plan
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The Afghanistan Problem: Why Are We in Helmand?
The military's summer campaign in Afghanistan has been misguided and needs to be fixed — now
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Obama's Student-Loan Plan: A 'Good' Takeover?
As the House looks likely to pass a bill this week, it's clear that the education overhaul is not going to be the high-pitched battle that many expected
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Congressional Dems Get Balky on Afghanistan
If the clarity of Obama's rhetoric on Afghanistan strikes you as familiarly Bushian, it's possible you're a congressional Democrat
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On Finance Reform, Obama's Unlikely Partner
In the press to change the country's financial system, Richard Shelby, scourge of the Democrats, has emerged as a key figure
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True Compass: A First Look at Ted Kennedy's Memoir
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the late torchbearer of America's most storied political family, leaves behind a political memoir with staying power
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After Obama's Speech, It's Back to Wooing the Skeptics
The President's health-care address was more targeted at the public than the Congress, but now he has to focus his powers of persuasion on the skeptics in his own backyard
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