So, David Broder has concerns! The economic situation in America is presenting a "daunting situation" that could prevent President Barack Obama from ...
Days after "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart described cable teevee news as a "24-hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator" that exacerbates t...
How have your would-be lawmakers responded to today's tough circumstances? With the most infantile, substance-free campaign in memory. 
For the past few days, Sarah Palin has been beefing with Politico after Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei published an article about how the GOP establishme...
Given the current economic environment, the lesson from this election is that it's just much easier, and more succinct, to be warning of doom than it is to be assuaging fears.
We begin with a wry joke, acknowledging the way this accelerated media age allows no respite at the end of one election cycle before proceeding headlong into the next.
Cable news coverage of yesterday's midterms was a pageant performed by the institution that knows the least about the lives of ordinary Americans.
Well look, Democrats: As long as the economy recovery and employment numbers improve in the next two years, it will be okay. People will like you fine! The bad news is, that's not a whole lot of time!
It's increasingly clear that beyond all of K Street's toxins, the one thing that's never going to change about Washington is the unrelenting, inhuman pettiness of the place.
The vast majority of the American people want the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy repealed. A majority of conservatives want it repealed. A...
Most of Washington is working hard at sizing up the new state of the GOP by strutting and fretting over what side in the "Civil War" shall prevail: th...
We're a week past the Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear, but on last night's edition of "The Daily Show," host Jon Stewart faced the music from what...
It's been over a week since Connecticut voters did what everyone expected them to do and made Richard Blumenthal their next Senator. But chances are, ...
I really appreciate the way that outgoing Senator Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) is doing all he can to remind us -- as he swans off into the snitty sunset of his...
Former BP CEO Tony Hayward should really think about heeding advice to "really just stop talking." But talk he has, and so we've all learned a whole bunch of new things about the guy who's really, really sorry about that whole catastrophic oil gusher thingy. For instance, we now know that if he had to do it all over again, he would have totally gone yachting, and, like all yachtsmen, he only took to the high seas as a means of tamping down all of the anger he was feeling.
Despite all of our efforts to talk about Matt Lauer's interview with former President George W. Bush, it seems that the televised tete-a-tete was something of a ratings disaster for NBC.
Hey, anyone interested in how Michael Steele is doing? If so, I'm glad you asked! Yesterday, Steele sat down with NPR's Michel Martin to talk about ...
Way back when Lisa Murkowski decided to embark on her write-in bid for the Senate, she won a key ruling from Alaska's election director Gail Fenumiai:...
Are you worried about the long-term effects of the incoming group of 80-plus GOP freshmen? Well, Politico reports today that you really have nothing at all to fear, because of an outbreak of "term-limit fever".
If you're like me, you were probably wondering how soon some sort of shady-ass nonsense would emerge about Florida's governor-elect, real-life Batman villain Rick Scott.
I'm not going to be the first one to note that the "chairman's mark" that was birthed so suddenly into our lives yesterday lacks a certain amount of s...
Happy Veterans Day, to one and all, but especially to the folks over at Google, who thought they'd commemorate the occasion by altering their logo to ...
For more on the abject unseriousness of the Deficit Commission's "chairman's mark," we go live to Dean Baker at the Center For Economic and Policy Res...
Last night, former BP CEO Tony Hayward addressed the students of Cambridge University at the Cambridge Union Society, about that whole "destroying the...
Over in the Senate, intra-party tensions are all a-brew over how the GOP is going to deal with earmarks. Senator Jim DeMint would like to see them go...
