Jon Stewart's opening segment on Wisconsin Monday night did a really great job connecting various dots on how the giant budget deficits that now endan...
Another day, another article attesting to the glorious success that was the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Today's story comes from Jim Puzzangher...
It looks like Howard Kurtz is going to get a whole lot of new clarity about who he's talking to when he has Representative Darrell Issa on the phone.
Last week, Ian Murphy of the Buffalo Beast won the week when he called up Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) and pretended to be billionaire David Koch. ...
The iron lock Iowa and New Hampshire have on starting the presidential primary process is pretty much hated by just about everyone else, and, with increasing frequency, other states typically try to crash the early primary party. In 2008, this led to all sorts of comical angst on the Democratic side, as Florida and Michigan defied party leaders to have early primaries. If you enjoyed all of that michegas in 2008, then you should look forward to 2012, which is shaping up along the same lines.
It seems like only months ago that the internet was buzzing anew with the rumors that Michael Bloomberg might run for president of these United States...
At long, long last, one of the presumed contenders for the 2012 nomination is planning to formally enter the race, sort of. That person: Newt Gingric...
For 16 years, Newt Gingrich has performed a solo performance art piece where he dances right up to the line of running for president, only to pull back at the last possible moment. For reasons that surpass my ability to understand them, this has only increased his overall mystique with the political press, which enables him to repeat this performance every four years. But on Tuesday, it looked as if Gingrich was going to finally jump into the race and be the first man in the field who could be considered a serious contender.
On Tuesday afternoon, Kurt Bardella, a spokesman for House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), was fired after it came to light that he had sh...
The Awl's Abe Sauer has been in Madison covering the ongoing demonstrations against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's "budget repair" bill. And after ...
While the world waits to see if Newt Gingrich will finally end his 16-year tease and jump into the presidential fray, another GOP figure moves closer to making a decision to run for the GOP nomination.
In George Will's latest grapple-with-the-real-world session he attempts to figure out "Why liberals love trains."
According to reports, Jon Huntsman has been busy behind the scenes prepping for a run at the White House -- staffing up, putting out feelers -- but as...
Making fun of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi: it seems like there's never been a better time to do it, but is it a bad karma thing to do?
Traffic light cameras: their proponents say that they are a powerful deterrent to red-light runners, fostering public safety and alleviating burdens o...
Corporate tax rates! I still have fond memories of the 2008 campaign, where Senator John McCain and his sometime-surrogate business super-genius Car...
Shiny-pated Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) has never been shy about his opposition to the Affordable Care Act. Back in 2009, Scott's Conservatives For Pa...
This has not been a very good week for presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee. Unless, of course, your standard for "good week for Mike Huckabee" is "Mike Huckabee said a bunch of stuff that will appeal directly to the sort of insane voters he needs to court to win the GOP presidential primary," in which case it's been a great week for Mike Huckabee. But if you view "greatness" by any other standard then no, it's not been good.
Over at the Awl, Ben Dolnick writes, "I Know The 2012 Election Will Destroy My Life," in that he's poised to become a "Politico-reading, blog-commenting, Sunday-show-watching lunatic... I dread the coming darkness," says Dolnick.
Felt searingly throughout the nation, and especially so in isolated pockets, concern over the unemployment crisis seems to be largely declining inside the Beltway bubble, and many have blamed President Obama and a polarized Congress for that. But perhaps the party that's really to blame for the disconnect on unemployment isn't our politicians, but a group of people who rarely get mentioned but who most definitely reside within the same bubble: the Beltway media.
Friday's Washington Post brings word of new findings on U.S. sexual behavior in the form of the National Survey of Family Growth, with good news findi...
After a week of keeping the media guessing on a nearly hourly basis as to whether he was going to officially enter the 2012 presidential fray, former ...
Oh, Newt Gingrich! For four presidential cycles you have been teasing us with the idea that you are running for president. I think that two ladies h...
What is the Congress going to do to stave off a government shut down? Well, their workin' it out with Smilin' Joe Biden. Maybe they'll just cut a few things each week?
It's going to be interesting to see what dividends can be wrought from all of Secretary Clinton's hard work. That said, any veteran of Hillaryland has got to groan when they see with whom Clinton is sharing the Newsweek cover.
