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GOP operatives are running a secret campaign to kill health care reform, and it's based on Karl Rove's old playbook Read Tim Dickinson's full story in the new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands now. On the first day of August, a mob of 200 right-wing Texans stormed the parking lot of a Randalls grocery store in southwest Austin. They were united in a single goal: Disrupt the "office hours" that Rep. Lloyd Doggett, the district's congressman, had scheduled for his constituents. The protesters targeted Doggett for his role in crafting the House's bill to reform health care, brandishing signs that read "No...

Three leading political observers grade the President's first six months During Franklin Roosevelt's first 100 days in office, congress granted every request the new president made. Barack Obama, despite enjoying a decisive majority in both houses of Congress, hasn't been so fortunate. His economic stimulus package failed to win a single Republican vote in the House, and conservative members of his own party are trying to block his ambitious plans to provide universal health care and curb global warming. What's more, Obama himself has alarmed supporters...

Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression In Rolling Stone Issue 1082-83, Matt Taibbi takes on "the Wall Street Bubble Mafia" — investment bank Goldman Sachs (click here to read the whole story). The piece has generated controversy, with Goldman Sachs firing back that Taibbi's piece is "an hysterical compilation of conspiracy theories" and a spokesman adding, "We reject the assertion that we are inflators of bubbles and profiteers in busts, and we are painfully conscious of the importance in being a force for good." Taibbi shot...

Once the masters of evil politics, Republicans have been reduced to half-assed buffoonery, providing comic relief for desperate times For Matt Taibbi's complete report, check out the latest issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands now. Following the Republican Party of late has been a movingly depressing experience, sort of like watching Old Yeller die — if Old Yeller were a worm-infested feral bitch who spent the past eight years biting children...

On his second day in office, President Obama ordered a halt to Bush's reign of torture. A look back at what happened at Gitmo - and why shutting it down may prove to be difficult Photo: McNeal/Fox 2002 January 11 First detainees arrive, hooded. February 7 Bush: Geneva Conventions do not apply; administration can make up its own rules. October 11 Staff attorney: Jack Bauer of 24 "gave people lots of ideas" for interrogations. (Pictured Above) December 2 Donald Rumsfeld approves use of dogs, sexual humiliation. Calls for harsher stress positions: "I stand 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?"

If the president wants an energy policy that creates jobs while protecting the environment, one state holds the answer: California For the Bush administration, saving energy was not only a fool's game — it was a threat to the American way of life. "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue," former vice president Dick Cheney declared in 2001, "but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy." In the world of politics, everyone knew exactly whom Cheney was mocking: California. During the oil crisis of the 1970s, the state was one of the first to recognize that promoting blind consumption...