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Wiretap: Warren-style populism beats back Obama-GOP-corporate free-trade front
No deal
The Warren wing of the Democratic Party deals Obama a ringing defeat on his trade agreement by refusing to consider fast-tracking. Populism wins....
Wiretap: ‘Are you kidding me?’ government-shutdown redux
This is how it figured to play out. Mitch McConnell caves in the Senate, offering up a so-called clean bill on Homeland Security and...
Wiretap: Jon Stewart drops mic; Brian Williams suspended, gets NYPosted
It's actually true: Jon Stewart is leaving the Daily Show. And liberals and other Stewart fans have no idea how they're going to get...
Littwin: Help wanted in Hillaryland
If you haven't heard the news, let me be the one to break it to you: Hillary Clinton is definitely running for president (OK,...
Wiretap: Crusader and commander
Jelani Cobb's piece in the New Yorker is titled "A President and a King," and it seeks to place Barack Obama's presidency in context...
Wiretap: Really, though, what president could break up our national partisan...
The reason presidents fail these days is that we want something that they can't deliver. That's because we can't deliver it either. Living in...
Wiretap: In the wake of the torture report
Who's to blame for the fact that the CIA set up secret sites and used rectal feeding as a way of getting information from...
Payday loan policy and the art of legislative compromise
DENVER -- De Jimenez is a single mother of three. She works in medical records and one of her children is in college. She...
Wiretap: The astonishing horror of ISIS captivity
In a terrifyingly sad and astonishing story in the New York Times, Rukmini Callimachi tells of the lives lived by the hostages in the days they were held by ISIS.
Statetap: Plugging a mine; plugging for Udall
State workers stopped up an abandoned mine that spews toxic heavy metals into the Peru Creek — a tributary of Snake River which ends up in Dillon Reservoir — in Summit County last week. Will the work finally stop the spewing?