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BREAKING: Supreme Court Has Upheld Individual Mandate, Handing Obama Huge Victory on Healthcare Law

We're listening to the Brian Lehrer show and reading SCOTUSblog's liveblog as the Supreme Court sits for what will probably be the final time of this term. And...SCOTUSblog is saying that the mandate has survived as a tax, and that Chief Justice John Roberts has joined the left in this ruling. The ... More >>

Newt Gingrich is a Ridiculous Candidate for President -- Which Explains His Rise

Last week, when we told you Newt Gingrich was the GOP's flavor of the month, you could have been forgiven for being skeptical. That Newt Gingrich? The former Speaker of the House who pissed off most of the country by shutting down the government? Who was fined by Congress for ethics violations? Who ... More >>

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceausescu, this is your life

Night Catches Us Takes a Brutally Honest Look at Black Power

The Riverton, Latest Collapsed New York Housing Icon, Auctioned for $120M

​Under the gaze of Moses, King Solomon, Hammurabi, and Abraham Lincoln (in a mural on the ceiling of the New York County Courthouse rotunda), the latest sad drama in the city's real estate bust played out this morning with minimal fanfare. Speaking slowly and deliberately, the auctioneer finis ... More >>

2009's Best Comics and Graphic Novels

Orpheus, Dick, and a little reefer: our annual round-up of the year's best

Obama Golfs; Local Tabs Take Sides

President Obama remains on vacation, and local tabloids have hurried to us dispatches from his morning golf game on Martha's Vineyard. "OBAMA SHOWS OFF POOR GOLF SKILLS AT MARTHA'S VINEYARD," cries the Post. Apparently Obama scored a triple bogey on the second hole of a local course. Maybe the pres ... More >>

Obama Anti-Semitic Shoe Shanda Gaffe!!!

You may have already seen this photo of Obama with his feet up in the Oval Office. Now Huffington Post lets us know that this is considered by some parties to be an offense against our allies in Israel: "A number of Israeli newscasters last night called the posture insulting," says HuffPo, "since in ... More >>

Obama CIO's Former Office Raided, Aide Arrested

FBI agents have arrested Yusuf Acar and Sushil Bansal in D.C. today in connection with a bribery case. Agents are searching the city's technology offices in which Acar worked as an infosys security officer for Vivek Kundra, who was D.C.'s chief tech officer before leaving last week to become Obama ... More >>

The Ninth Annual Film Poll

Critics turn into optimists, pick WALL-E as year's best.

That's Our Hillary! Pols, Rightbloggers React to New Secretary of State

Midway Through the Toronto Film Fest, and Things are Looking Bleak

Oh, Canada

New American Playwrights Live by the Way of the Word

Adam Bock, Young Jean Lee and more make up a new breed of self-aware playwrights questioning what we know about language

Country-Rap: A Secret History

Obama Vs. Bush(?!) on Terrorism

iVoice: Julie Taymor Makes a Bob Seger American History Homage

Supreme Court to Americans: In Your Face!

How To Wear Your Vote

In search of that perfect 'candidate-beater' tank top

Horton Hears a Who!'s Blessed Reverence

Seuss, somehow not fucked up

Alan Jackson's Good Time

Country vet loves ladies, bologna, cartoons

Status Ain't Hood Interviews Killer Mike

TABLOIDED: The Grammys

We Come to Bury Rudy

The evil that men do lives after their mayoral stints—and even 9/11

At a Feminist Gathering, Media is the Message

Old-Fashioned Amenities

Track after track of sincere classicism, internationalist anarchism, and foiled espionage

A Public Display of Direction

Sunrise dawns on a new day at a downtown institution

Under The Revival Tent

Beyond the aging Billy Graham, some new faces on the Christian right

Knockout Nanny

A playwright takes inspiration from the Greatest's moves

Walking the Planks

Dems' creaky platform leans to right, has a warped colonial veneer

Dust Raking

Stop the presses! Liberal journos donate to Democrats! Plus: N.Y.C. protesters spark mad tab disease

A Look Backward

Reagan took New Dealer Demos for a ride—and he never returned them

Drug Through the Mud

A Way Station For Dope, Haiti Again Gets The Wrong Kind Of Interference

Bush's Best in Show

Who's Watching His Watchdogs?

Who the Man?

The Democrats scramble to find a scream-proof alpha

The New Bronx Market

After Neighborhood Turnaround, HUD Seeks to Cash Out

Whimper of Mass Destruction

What Didn't They Know? When Didn't They Know It?

Notes From Underground

Terrorists in Retirement

Checkpoint Baghdad

As the Looters Run Out of Loot, Layers of Disaster Remain

Rumsfeld's Dealings With Saddam

Were Trips to Iraq Meant to Secure Pipeline Deal?

Building the Case for War in Iraq, the U.S. Has Bigger Problems Than France

Chicken Run

Scared Congress Seeks Shelter in Nuclear Henhouse

Redeeming the Democratic Party

Separate and Unequal—the Nations Within

Theater

Hot Tickets

World Leaders on Dope

Right Joins Left in Call For an End to the Drug War

The Incredible Shrinking Internet

When Cable Monopolies Rule the Web, Everyone Loses

Masters of Their Domain

Tennis Legends Bring Their Senior Tour to Central Park

Socks in the Long Grass

Hillary Moves In

Kosovo— Was There Another Way?

Only a Dream— a Nonviolent Army?

Oh What a Lovely War!

Technological Racism in Kosovo

Hyde & Seek

Wider probe could burn judiciary chair