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Santorum and Boies contraception

Catholic tribalism and the contraceptive flap

Watching liberals defend a church they disagree with showed us that even Catholic insiders can feel like outsiders

Joan Walsh 95
Esasha LeBlanc, left, an Army drill sergeant at Fort Jackson, S.C., works with Pvt. Daniel Ladd, 17, of Darlington, S.C. Pentagon

Female soldiers fight the brass ceiling

While relenting on gay soldiers, the Pentagon still excludes women from combat

Linda Hirshman 28
Confronting CPAC CPAC

The two Americas clash at CPAC

Union demonstrators march on the conservative enclave

Jefferson Morley 20
A worker shovels wet concrete at a residential site in Los Angeles, California The Labor Movement

Unions in a “death spiral”? Not on my job site

In the building trades, labor is flourishing

Steve Cooper 9
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, announces the revamp of his contraception policy contraception

A compromise only zealots won't take

Obama's birth control move may have satisfied most sides -- and revealed the truth about the bishops' opposition

Irin Carmon 68
This Oct. 12, 2011 file photo shows the J.P. Morgan Chase logo at the base of one of the bank's larger Lower Manhattan buildings in New York Mortgage Crisis

The big banks win again

Foreclosure victims get little help in a mortgage-settlement plan that only benefits the banks' bottom line

Matt Stoller 32

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