Greg Sargent
Greg Sargent
Opinion Blogger

Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog, a reported opinion blog with a liberal slant -- what you might call “opinionated reporting” from the left. He joined the Post in early 2009, after stints at Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and the New York Observer. He lives in Maryland with his wife, son and daughter.

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Happy Hour Roundup

Our nightly wrap-up of news and opinion.

The tea party and the Hammock Theory of Poverty

The tea party and the Hammock Theory of Poverty

The GOP poverty agenda largely reflects the ideas and preoccupations of a small minority.

The Morning Plum: More cracks in GOP resistance to Obamacare

Republicans slowly reconcile themselves to the idea that the law might not be 100 percent evil.

Why the Medicaid expansion matters so much to Dems

Why the Medicaid expansion matters so much to Dems

It could help turn out the Dem base, which could be critical in 2014.