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A lawsuit brought by the Log Cabin Republicans secures an order to the military to "immediately to suspend and discontinue any investigation, or discharge, separation, or other proceeding, that may have been commenced" under Don't Ask Don't Tell.

Talk about irony: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur has devoted her career to celebrating the World War II heroes who fought the Nazis. Her opponent dresses in Waffen-SS drag.

The US Chamber of Commerce is flooding Senate races across the country with attack ads paid for by multinational corporations. President Obama is objecting. Russ Feingold is punching back.

It is hard to think of anyone who has done more to undermine cities such as Chicago than Rahm Emanuel. And he may not even meet the residency requirement to run for mayor.

An economist who might just "get" what Larry Summers missed.

Backed by key unions and activists, Ed Miliband is given the charge to lead the fight against Conservative cuts.

Either the House Republicans' "Pledge to America" is an outline for massive new debts and deficits or it is a roadmap to the privatization of Social Secuity, Medicare and Medicaid.

A Senate majority was prepared to take a key step to end discrimination against gays and lesbians serving in the military Tuesday, but the GOP minority blocked action. At the same time, Republicans—led by former immigration-reform backer John McCain—blocked the DREAM Act.

Can Lady Gaga get a couple of Republicans to do the right thing about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"?

A  Montana Republican Party platform plank calls for criminalizing homosexuality, a stance that would round up gays and lesbians and incarcerate them. That's bigotry in its crudest form. Shouldn't Republican Party leaders condemn it, as Democratic leaders did the bigoted stances of southern Democratic parties in the 1950s and 1960s?