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The Grinch Who Stole Washington

Why did Republicans go to the trouble and expense of winning the midterm elections?

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Tough Times for Superpowers

The secret U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks leave one overriding impression: It's hard out there for a superpower.

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Why Granny Gets Searched

It's hard to love the Transportation Security Administration, especially now that airport personnel seem so intent on touching people's junk. But the TSA's job isn't to be adorable, it's to be infallible—and also, apparently, to suffer being unfairly maligned.

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Look Who's the Decider Now

Forget the Republicans. It's the president who sets the agenda, and who ultimately is held accountable for America's successes and failures.

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Runaway Military: A Raw Deal at Half the Price

I come not to bury the manifesto issued last week by President Obama's debt-reduction commission, but to praise the most welcome of its ideas: Slash defense spending along with everything else.

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Wanted: Mojo All Around

In his only interview since the GOP rampage, with Steve Kroft of "60 Minutes," President Obama was reasonable, analytical, professorial—but also uninspired and uninspiring.

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A Speaker Who Stood Out

Amid the wreckage of Tuesday's GOP rampage, there's one person for whom I feel awful: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She's losing her job not because she does it poorly but because she does it so well.

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Race and the Tea Party's Ire

The first African-American president takes office, and almost immediately we see the birth of an overwhelmingly white national movement that tries its best to delegitimize that president. Coincidence? [Above, an anti-Obama poster.]

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The Mondo-Bizarro Campaign

With their "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" this weekend, political satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are late to the party. This weird campaign has been Comedy Central all along.

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What If? So What?

What if President Obama and the Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill had pushed through an authentic, righteous, no-holds-barred progressive agenda, perhaps with a thick overlay of pitchfork populism?

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