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Obama will return to health care
feature With financial reform underway and immigration reform coming next, it appears Barack Obama has moved on from the health-care debate. Just wait
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Obama's crucible is overseas
feature Having averted a double-dip recession in America, will the president fall prey to a double-dip war in Iraq?
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Can Obama reverse the tide?
feature The president is speaking like a Democrat. And he sounds pretty good.
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What Obama should do now
feature There are times when picking a fight on principle is also good politics. With the midterm election fast approaching, here's the fight Obama should be waging
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Saving Social Security -- and Democratic seats
feature In their desire to dismantle Social Security, Republicans have given Democrats an issue that has been politically potent before -- and can be so again.
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Liberals must choose: Purity or victory?
feature The health care bill and Copenhagen prove yet again that Obama knows how to win on important issues. His detractors on the left should be taking notes
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Rotten decade, remarkable year
feature The gloomy appraisals of the past decade missed a key point: America turned the corner in 2009. In a tough but historic year, we got back on course to becoming a fairer, stronger and more prosperous nation.
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Three new realities of the Obama Era
feature The passage of health-care reform has reshaped more than the insurance industry. It's brought a truce on abortion, married Republicans to the mob, and restored progressivism to the presidency after a five-decade hiatus
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LBJ's pens and Obama's peril
feature Lyndon Johnson achieved a formidable legislative record as president, but was undone by two key failures. Obama faces the same two challenges — fortunately, he still has time to correct course
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The Republican war on the Constitution
feature For a GOP doubling down on a strategy of division and discrimination, the Constitution appears increasingly old and in the way.
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Is anyone listening to Obama?
feature To regain the attention of a dispirited and angry public, the president must overcome his temperamental aversion to the populist politics
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The referendum on Obama
feature Republicans took a joyful victory lap last week for next year's 2010 midterm elections. Now all they have to do is run the race.
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For Obama, success is at hand
feature The premature gloom about Obama's presidency will soon be swept away by the reality: Obama is resurgent.
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Reaganomics is dead
feature Sworn into office facing similarly high levels of unemployment, Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama pursued starkly different policies. A comparison of their results should put the final stake in voodoo economics
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