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Elizabeth Warren Puts Bank Regulators to Shame in First Senate Hearing
Max Read · 02/15/13 09:51AMElizabeth Warren, the senator from Massachusetts and Great Liberal Hope, had her first hearing yesterday as a member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. How'd it go? Great for Warren; less so for the regulators of whom she was asking questions:
Tammy Baldwin & Elizabeth Warren Elected to Senate, Richard 'Rape Is God's Gift' Mourdock and Todd 'Legitimate Rape' Akin Lose
Taylor Berman · 11/06/12 10:49PMBad night to be an old white Republican man with a terrible understanding of science and rape: both Richard "Rape Pregnancies Are God's Gifts" Mourdock and Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin lost their races; Mourdock was defeated by Joe Donnelly in the Indiana Senate race, and Claire McCaskill easily beat Akin to retain her Missouri Senate spot.
Scott Brown's Congressional Staffers Caught on Camera Making 'Indian War Whoops' at Elizabeth Warren Supporters
Neetzan Zimmerman · 09/25/12 12:30PMSeveral congressional staffers employed by Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) were caught on camera directing "Indian war whoops" and "tomahawk chops" at supporters of Senate race opponent Elizabeth Warren outside a Boston pub this week.
Nancy Pelosi Was a Fox, John Boehner Looked Like Lurch, and Other Revelations from Politicos' Yearbook Photos
Max Read · 07/02/12 09:33AMBuzzfeed's Andrew Kaczynski has done us all the great and noble service of collecting the yearbook photos of 69 different politicians and political figures. Did you know that Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren were high-school foxes? That John Boehner looked like Jonah Hill playing Lurch? That Mike Huckabee, in flannel jacket and big headphones, looked like an L-train rider? That Harry Reid was way ahead of the contrast-shirt craze? That David Axelrod was, based on his photo, an honorary member of the Choom Gang? [Buzzfeed]
Karl Rove Joins the Battle Against Violent Hippie Monster Elizabeth Warren
Jim Newell · 11/10/11 01:24PMCrazy Heckler Calls Elizabeth Warren 'Socialist Whore'
Jim Newell · 11/03/11 01:13PMElizabeth Warren's Bonanza Fundraising Haul
Jim Newell · 10/10/11 04:12PMScott Brown Relieved That Elizabeth Warren Never Posed Naked
Jim Newell · 10/06/11 11:39AMElizabeth Warren's Senate Run Is Going to Kick Ass
Max Read · 09/21/11 11:35PMHow Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers and Tim Geithner 'Hijacked' the Obama Presidency
Max Read · 09/18/11 03:00PMElizabeth Warren Is Running for Senate
Jim Newell · 09/13/11 02:51PMWhat's Next for Beloved Consumer Advocate Elizabeth Warren
Jim Newell · 07/18/11 01:36PMPresident Obama broke some news this weekend, while he and the fam were watching ladies' soccer games. He chose to nominate Richard Cordray, a former Ohio attorney general, to be the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that was created in last year's Dodd-Frank financial reform bill. But the interesting thing about this Cordray fellow is that his name isn't "Elizabeth Warren." What gives?
How to Respond When a Congressman Calls You a Liar
Max Read · 05/24/11 08:22PMElizabeth Warren, the consumer advocate and Harvard professor who's heading up the brand-new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in its infancy, stopped by the House of Representatives today for a hearing called — seriously — "Who's Watching the Watchmen?" It got kind of intense!