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A Friday April 6, 2012 photo provided by the US Navy shows a sign that is displayed describing the 611 pairs of shoes lining the sidewalk in front of Sharkey Theater before a sexual assault event at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. The shoes represent the number of sexual assault victims within the Navy last year. Training emphasized that sexual assault prevention is everyone's duty while promoting Sexual Assault Awareness Month. (Photo by AP Photo/U.S. Navy photo, Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ronald Gutridge/Released)

The real scandal of the week: Sexual assault in the military

With everything happening in Washington this week, there is a real scandal that has been overlooked the White House that is being addressed today. Read More

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush speaks at the Reagan Library after autographing his new book "Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution" on March 8, 2013 in Simi Valley, California. Bush discussed the leadership and policy changes he believes are required to turn the country around.  (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

The burden of being a Bush

Why having the last name Bush may not mean an immediate place in the White House. Read More

US President Barack Obama (L) is accompanied by vice president Joe Biden (C) and family members of Newtown school shooting victims during a press conference at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 17, 2013. Obama slammed what he called a "minority" in the US Senate for blocking legislation that would have expanded background checks on those seeking to buy guns. (Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)

On gun violence, we must force change

Why we need more courage in Congress. Read More

President Obama speaking about his proposed 2014 budget alongside acting budget director Jeff Zients in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 10, 2013. (Photo by Charles Dharapak/AP)

In defense of President Obama’s budget

Calm down progressives, President Obama is still on your side. Read More

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The Republican candidate that is great news for Democrats

Virginia's Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli is fighting to bring back anti-sodomy laws, among other retrograde policies that seem at odds with the newer, gentler GOP. Read More

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North Dakota takes the lead in banning abortion

The Senate in North Dakota Senate passed a bill that could ban abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. Read More

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Why the Steubenville verdict is just the beginning

This isn’t a football issue. It's not a small town issue. It's not a social media issue. It's an American issue that in 2013 we still live in a country where too many tolerate blaming the rape victim and calling her a whore. Read More

President Obama delivers remarks at the Organizing for Action dinner in Washington on March 13, 2013 (Photo by Yuri Gripas/Reuters)

President vs. Congress: Deal or no deal?

I want to know what exactly will it take for a budget deal to happen. Read More

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The silver lining of the sequester

Krystal Ball explains why the sequester spending cuts may not be a bad thing – and why it should have been no surprise when lawmakers couldn’t come to a deal to avert it in the first place. Read More

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Marissa Mayer’s decree at Yahoo!

Krystal reviews the working from home debate. Read More

Speaker Boehner's sequester strategy may be backfiring. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Why we need the GOP

Krystal Ball gives her take on what the GOP has to do to whip itself back into shape-- and why we need them to. Read More

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The case for raising the minimum wage

I respond to the president's call to raise the minimum wage. Read More

Undated handout image courtesy of the U.S. Air Force shows a MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft. REUTERS/U.S. Air Force/Lt Col Leslie Pratt/Handout

Drones and ‘the Decider’

It's not hypocrisy to feel comfortable about giving powers to Barack Obama that we wouldn't want to give to George W. Bush. Read More

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The new GDP numbers: government is the problem

Krystal says Ronald Reagan may have been right! But not in the way he intended. Read More

File Photo: Elmore Nickleberry of Memphis attends a Martin Luther King rally at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Monday, April 4, 2011. Nickleberry, a Memphis sanitation department worker went on strike in 1968 seeking better working condition and to recognition their union.  Thousands of union protesters rallied on the steps of the Capitol on the anniversary of King's death. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)

The share of union members in the work force in a union is lowest in 97 years

The percentage of American workers in labor unions fell to 11.3% last year, the lowest since 11.2% in 1916. Labor's fight is the fight for basic economic fairness. Read More

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The GOP retreat (as in, retreat from reality)

My tips for House Republicans as they huddle up for a strategy session in Virginia. Read More

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Where are the women?

With the nomination of Jack Lew today Krystal gives her take on President Obama's second term cabinet and why we need more diversity. Read More

Republican Senator from Illinois Mark Kirk (2-L) walks up the east steps of the Senate after returning to Capitol Hill, with US Vice President Joe Biden (L), Democratic Senator  from West Virginia Joe Manchin (2-R) and Democratic Senator from Illinois Dick Durbin (R), in Washington DC, USA, 03 January 2013. Kirk returns to the Senate to attend the opening of the 113th Congress after suffering a major stroke that forced him to relearn how to walk. (Photo by Michael Reynolds/EPA)

A House full of disappointment

The reason we have more women representing us in Congress is so important. Read More

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Government out-of-control?

Gun control.  Mind control.  Government out-of-control.  Americans don't much like being controlled or told what to do and the second amendment speaks not so… Read More

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Fiscal cliff trumps GOP’s Plan B

Why Democrats are better off jumping off the fiscal cliff than accepting plan B. Read More