What's amazing to me after coming back from vacation is how obviously insular and silly this supposed "national" election conversation really is.

What Democrats are really asserting is that they believe Americans see factory, small-business, and agriculture jobs as merely a means to a white-collar professional ends.

Is he going to finally start publicly declaring that he's taking the majority's side in the struggle to stop the Republicans class war, elites be damned?

If Obama reacts forcefully and emotionally to McCain's ad -- not through a spokesman but on his own -- he could make this ad and the right's whole cultural populist meme backfire on McCain.

A series of new polls shows John McCain closing in on Barack Obama in industrial swing-states like Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and widening his l...

The Republicans are doing everything they can to make the campaign into a competition over who can be more hypernationalist. This is the saber rattling of the 2004 campaign on steroids.

Yesterday morning, my nationally syndicated newspaper column asked whether, in fact, Republicans really do put "country first?" On the afternoon of th...

Last Friday morning, my nationally syndicated newspaper column asked whether, in fact, Republicans really do put "country first?" On the afternoon ...

I thought the House Democratic Caucus Chairman was a position whose mission is to help elect more Democrats, so that Democrats can do more things Demo...

For ideological progressives long fighting the good fight to resurrect the common-good regulatory agenda of the New Deal, McCain's shift reflects a broader shift in the public debate.

Finally, Barack Obama answers the "Which Side Are You On?" question so many of us have been asking, and starts talking about trade and working-class economics.

On Monday, September 22nd, I'm going to be debating conservative radio host Dennis Prager at a public forum here in Denver about the question "What's ...

The most amazing facet of the presidential campaign is not how close the overall race is, but how close the polls are specifically on economic issues....

You want to understand what Barack Obama's "minimalism" on economic issues really looks like? Then take a look at this picture of Obama's emergency ec...

To try to deny that McCain's formative economic experience was intimidating banking regulators -- and that he was rebuked for doing that -- is trying to perpetrate a fraud on the American people.

Is this why lobbyists and George "19 percent" Bush are laughing at Democrats like Dodd? Are they laughing because one of the other Democratic leaders is busy working to help them sell America out?

I'm sure Buffett is a great guy, but appearance-wise, this doesn't look good -- it seems, in fact, to reinforce the whole disaster capitalism image of this bailout.

Congress, the presidential campaigns and the national media are all espousing what we might call the Princess Leah message. "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, y...

This should be the emblem for what's going on this week: Brewster's Millions was a funny movie. This is real life and its not funny at all. Is Cong...

A number of commentators and politicians have noted that the proposed financial bailout is, in effect, a socialization of Wall Street. They claim that...

I was on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC last night to go over some McCain whoppers from the debate. You can watch the video here: At the end of this post, y...

When a consumer uses a new credit card to pay off astounding debt from an old credit card, in many cases, it is illegal. Apparently when the government does it, it's billed as Serious Public Policy.