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A detailed portrait of the Obama administration's foreign policy apparatus by the FT's Edward Luce and Daniel Dombey presents a mix...

Most overviews of the effects of the new health reform law have suggested that it won't have a large impact on employer-provided insuran...

Considering it will take four years to get the health insurance exchanges set up, I'm a little mystified how the Patient Protection and ...

"Patience" and "persistence" have been the Obama team's watchwords as they tout the Presidedent's victories in h...

Editors of the world are agog at a close-up of Obama's mark-up of a draft of the speech on health care he delivered to both chamber...

David Leonhardt  points out today that the health care bill represents a significant check to the growth of income inequality over the pas...

I generally take Thomas Friedman's enthusiasms with a spoonful of salt (especially his corporate enthusiasms ). But today he retails t...

Eons ago, back in October, I took a bit of umbrage when the award winning columnist Gideon Rachman suggested that Obama was displaying ...

Lots of people are amused by Mitt Romney's denunciation of Obamacare, close cousin to Romneycare. Joe Klein finds it hilarious .  And th...

Speaking of radical incrementalism, here, from Obama's rather stark speech following the bill's passage last night, is Obama in a n...

Ezra Klein on the strange beast that is the health care reform bill: It is a comprehensive reform with an incremental soul. Reverse tha...

Yes, health care reform has lost some popularity. But Democrats are past the point of no return. They have no choice but to pass a bill, and...

Anyone who called his or her Congressional rep and was told that the rep "doesn't like the Senate bill" will appreciate what J...

In his long essay Can America Rise Again? James Fallows sought for a solution to "the American tragedy of the early 21st century: a vi...

In reconstructing how the Democrats got from the disarray following Scott Brown's election on Jan. 19 to the brink of passing comprehens...

David Remnick has posed a fundamental question about Netanyahu that is resonating through the internets: The essential question for Israel ...

Andy Stern to Ezra Klein on how the long struggle to get health reform passed has changed the political process, maybe forever: The bill i...

Begging your indulgence, dear reader, an updated reposting from earlier this week: --- Ever since Scott Brown's election on Jan. 19 se...

Six weeks ago, I 'collated' the thoughts of a two China-watchers who advocate a multilateral approach to attempting to moderate Chin...

Bart Stupak is a real alpha dog, isn't he? He hangs with those major power brokers the Catholic bishops, and like his puppet masters dis...