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Giving Up on Grassley, and What Comes Next for Health Care Reform. (www.prospect.org) TMC

Ezra has a good catch with this fundraising letter [PDF] sent out by Senator Chuck Grassley, ostensibly the chief Republican negotiator on health care reform:

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The Guns of August, and Why the Right Was So Adept at Using Them on Health Care. (www.prospect.org) TMC

What we learned in August is something we've long known but keep forgetting: The most important difference between America's Democratic left and Republican right is that the left has ideas and the... More

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Health Care's Lowest Foes (www.prospect.org) TMC

H.L. Mencken famously observed that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Were he alive today and watching our debate over health-care reform, he would nod... More

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Lunchtime Lessons from New Orleans (www.prospect.org) TMC

President Obama's daughters get healthy school lunches. Why don't I? So asked a pigtailed black girl plastered on buses and billboards around Washington, D.C. The White House blasted the political ad,... More

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Will the Deficit Save Health Reform? | (www.prospect.org) TMC

If the latest budget projections are keeping you up at night, the best way to ease your troubled mind is to support health-care reform.

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Will health reform mean easier access to abortion? (www.prospect.org) TMC

In his recent Time piece on abortion and health reform, Mike Scherer confuses the issue. As he writes, under the current House compromise, both private and public health plans operating in the... More

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Will the deficit save health reform? (www.prospect.org) TMC

You've probably already heard that the deficit projections released yesterday are a threat to the president's plan to reform health care. In fact, Reuters tried to tell you this a week ago, in a story... More

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Behind the story: circumcision and HIV (www.prospect.org) TMC

One of the great things about being a magazine writer is that it allows you to develop quirky areas of expertise. And indeed, as regular readers will know, I've been covering the HIV/circumcision... More

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Last Chance for the Public Option? (www.prospect.org) TMC

If it could turn back the clock, the Obama administration would probably go back to late November and undertake an elaborate war game on health-care reform. It would lock its smartest people away in a... More

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TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect (www.prospect.org) TMC

Ted Kennedy wasn't a symbol of American liberalism. He was the executor of American liberalism, he was the real deal, he got it done.

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