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Many in Congress are refusing to find common ground for fear of losing primary elections.

As new state-level marketplaces open for enrollment today, here's a primer that answers 20 questions about the Affordable Care Act.

Across the country, for-profit companies are engaged in a hostile takeover of our schools, roads, prisons, drinking water -- even government itself.

Matt Taibbi talks about his new investigation into Wall St. hedge funds that are taking public pension money out of the hands of retirees.

Why it's wrong for the media to portray this unprecedented legislative extortion as typical partisan negotiations.

After the tea party catapulted House Republicans into the majority, 75 right-wing lawmakers wrote a letter to Speaker Boehner demanding that a vote to repeal the device tax occur “as soon as possible.”