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Coffman: Oops?

  The campaign for Andrew Romanoff is sending around videotape of Colorado Republican Congressman Mike Coffman in a candidate debate today struggling to answer a...

Wiretap: Counting bullets in Ferguson, Mo.

Why did Michael Brown die in Ferguson, Mo.? Making sense from vast disagreement.

Pulse of religion still beats in conservative politics

  "AM I the only guy who’s ending sentences with ‘amen’ this weekend?” Ralph Reed, conservative political operative and born-again Christian, asked during his speech...

Wiretap: In the culture wars, women still losing

The Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision is just the latest example of how women's rights are being abridged. It's not only women who are losing, though. Republicans are losing, too.

Wiretap: The sad, ugly interactions of the abortion-clinic buffer zones

Her 16-week-old fetus was given zero chance of coming into the world alive. It had no kidneys, no bladder, no anus. Its legs were fused together. And the people were there to yell, "You're killing your unborn baby."

Colorado eyes Supreme Court ruling knocking down abortion-clinic buffer zone

The law struck down today was based in part on Colorado's "bubble bill," a first-in-the-nation law passed in 1993 that set up a floating 8-foot zone anywhere within 100 feet of a clinic.

Rep. DeGette, ProgressNow join fast-spinning newscycle on Gardner and women’s health

In the digital era, fast-turning messaging cycles like this one are typical, which at this point doesn't seem like a good thing for Gardner. His mixed messages on personhood and contraception are likely to keep spinning like brightly colored pinwheels above his campaign until Election Day.

Much drama over bills on fracking, abortion, labor rights, recalls, red-light...

Notes from the big 100th day of the 2014 legislative session.

Gardner flip-flop: A seven-month dustup or just a March stir?

Because Gardner has a super-long record supporting personhood, the question is not so much whether his reversal on the issue was politically motivated, as whether it was politically smart.

Wiretap: Hobby Lobby tea leaves; Obamacare’s millions

The high court turns around swing-Justice Kennedy. So the question is whether Kennedy thinks the Hobby Lobby case is about birth control or abortion.