Why should anyone believe simply electing more Democrats is going to end the war? Where is there any proof that that would help end the war?
Alan Greenspan: One of the truly great class warriors of his time.
It is frustrating being part of the progressive movement these days - truly frustrating. And I say that not because I am on book deadline and exhauste...
Glancing at the Wall Street Journal and then at the Hill Newspaper, it's hard to believe some people in Congress are professional career politicians.....
Whatever happens with this weekend's vote, what we are seeing in Costa Rica both from our government and voters there is nothing short of monumental.
To kick this off, I want to ask readers for some input on my first few columns. I want to try to be the first Open Columnist, if you will - and this is just the beginning.
Trade has been known to be a huge issue in Iowa (remember Dick Gephardt in 1988), so this announcement could very well ripple through the 2008 primary.
Following his support of Wall Street's push to expand NAFTA, Obama has embarked on a campaign of misdirection.
The tax shenanigans are so nauseating that even some principled Republicans are outraged.
That's how revolutions end -- not with a bang, but with a whimper. And that goes for the Republicans' 30-year anti-tax revolution.
As the federal government remains paralyzed by the Senate's tyranny of the tiny minority and unable to move significant universal health care legislation, states are trying to move into the breach.
Senate Democrats could filibuster any Iraq war spending bill that is a blank check with no provisions to end the war.
The netroots is really going to have to figure out how to meld its bourgeois focus with the kitchen-table concerns of everyday, non-political-junkie Americans.
Washington lobbyists may very well get their way - with the help of a media that refuses to point out blatant conflicts of interest.
The Colorado Republican leadership is berating the very tax cuts they championed.
Leo Hindery calls it "nonpartisan" - I call it buypartisan. Whatever you want to call it, it is fueled by the very corruption we are seeing on trade, taxes and now on immigration.
How can a newspaper complain about losing readership when, in a major Democratic city, it is providing news analysis from a right-wing Republican who was soundly rejected by voters?
I hope the millionaires in the Senate club can refrain from trying to Santa Claus-ify Paul Wellstone by only recalling him as a nice, friendly, happy man.
If you think about captive-industry populism for a while, you will realize how applicable it is on many different issues - from health care to land politics to labor organizing.
The a recent move on Peru, consistent with Edwards' economic populist campaign, drives a wedge right through the heart of the Democratic presidential primary.
As we are opening our country up to more imports made without any regard to product safety standards, we are weakening our domestic systems that are s...
