Latest articles by Robert Shrum
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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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The organ-grinder Congress
feature With the Capitol transformed into a big top, Democrats can't afford to be spectators
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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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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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The degradation of John McCain
feature Angrily scorning his own past positions, McCain behaves like a batty, deluded uncle. But his hypocrisy is tragically rational
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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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The enduring greatness of JFK
feature Fifty years after his inauguration, John F. Kennedy's words continue to enlarge America
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Israel's moment to be bold
feature The crisis in Egypt will present Israel with an opportunity to seize the high ground — and maybe peace, too
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The economy trumps Trump
feature Obama has deflected the birthers. The real danger for the president now is the GOP's political ploy to dead-end the economy
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Bin Laden, the fringe Left, and the torturous Right
feature The killing of the architect of September 11 has provoked predictable remonstrance from the usual suspects
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The GOP dumps the Gipper
feature Mired in anger and vituperation, seemingly hell-bent on becoming a small-tent faction rather than a big-tent governing party, Republicans have betrayed the leader they ritually canonize. The GOP is now the party of malaise.
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Pelosi delivered
feature The Democrats' hold on the House didn't last. Their landmark legislation will
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The U.S. joins the euro zone
feature Greece, with a GDP the size of greater Dallas–Fort Worth, has sent shockwaves from China to the U.S. Like it or not, we're in the euro zone now.
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Keep Congress in session this August
feature A special session will allow Democrats to highlight their differences with the GOP on jobless benefits, financial reform, and energy policy. That's a better campaign plan than sending members back to their districts — and it's right on the merits
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Will both sides blink on the debt ceiling?
feature With the financial credibility of our nation at stake, and both parties facing massive political risks, lawmakers might agree to a grand bargain after all
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The end of the New Deal?
feature The GOP's economic program is an effort to destroy the architecture of social justice and corporate responsibility in America
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The GOP's bizarro economics
feature The party's plan is to find some way to take credit if prosperity takes hold — or find a way to make sure it doesn't
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After health care, the deluge
feature Later this fall, President Obama will sign into law a landmark health-reform bill. Then the hard part begins.
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Afghanistan could decide this presidency
feature Despite the false hopes of Republicans, Obama will prevail on health care and preside over a growing economy. The fateful test is Afghanistan.
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Looking Back: How health reform passed
feature Things may look bleak for President Obama in the first week of September. They'll look a lot different a few months from now.
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For Democrats, it's do or die
feature The legislative machinery is in place and the GOP opposition is irrelevant. Only Democrats can prevent health reform from passing now.
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McCain and Palin have peaked
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