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Wiretap: If you think the GOP tax cut was tough, wait...

Republicans have passed their tax bill. That will almost certainly be the easy part. The harder part comes next with the expected arguments coming...

Wiretap: Taking on giants in the name of Net neutrality

It's not too late for communications-industry corporate colossi to snatch victory from the widening jaws of defeat, but still... How did a ragtag band...

Wiretap: The case for reparations

"Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our moral debts, America will never be whole."

Wiretap: In Hudak-land, full-bore gun nasty

It's getting even nastier than expected in the effort to recall state Sen. Evie Hudak. Accusations are flying across the streets of Arvada, where lawn signs are moved, cameras are slapped epithets hurled. Just another month or so to go.

Gay marriage: Not like interracial marriage, not like a defective Toyota

As Judge Vaughn Walker prepares his decision in the historic California Proposition 8 gay marriage trial and the National Organization for Marriage continues its...