Barack Obama decisively defeated Republicans in the 2012 election. But Republicans are successfully kicking his butt in the post election.

You know something's wrong when Obama's biggest second term achievement to date is voluntarily giving back 5 percent of his presidential salary in sympathy with federal workers furloughed by...

"[T]ens of millions of Americans are already preparing to Stand and Fight to protect their families and homes...During the second Obama term... Latin American drug gangs have invaded every city of significant size in the United States... [T]he border today remains porous not only to people seeking jobs in the...

After President Obama's nearly 4-year silence on the dangers of climate change during his first term, Obama spoke out forcefully in his Second Inaugural Address:

We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and our...

American democracy is under threat from two powerful sources:

The first is the power of billionaires and corporations to make unlimited "independent" campaign contributions which resulted in a $6 billion election in which the top 32 super PAC donors, giving an average of $9.9 million each, matched...

I hate to burst the balloon of a New Year's celebration for an apparently bipartisan deal to avoid the badly misnamed "fiscal cliff," but far from affirming a progressive victory in the 2012 elections, which should have protected the legacy of the New Deal for future generations, the deal permanently...

If you're an 85-year-old lady (or man) living on $14,000 a year in Social Security, having your benefits cut by roughly $1,000 a year could mean choosing between paying for food or paying for medicine. In some cases it could mean the difference between life and death.

But that's apparently...

Since the 2012 elections -- the most expensive in history at a cost of $6 billion -- there has been a growing media narrative that because Sheldon Adelson's millions and Karl Rove's super PACs didn't defeat Barack Obama or create a Republican Senate, money in politics and post-Citizens...

(A poll from Public Policy Polling reports that 25 percent of Republicans would like their state to secede from the Union. Nearly 1 million Americans have signed petitions calling for secession including over 100,000 in Texas and over 50,000 in Georgia. So, cribbing from a viral...

Chew on this for a moment: Nationwide, Democrats received more than a half million more votes for the House of Representatives than Republicans did. But despite getting fewer overall votes, Republicans captured 55 percent of the House seats.

If the United States were really as democratic as it aspires to...

America just ended the most expensive election campaign in history -- $6 billion, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission data by the Center for Responsive Politics. And that doesn't even count several hundred million dollars in undisclosed "shadow money" spent by non-profit issue advocacy groups who...

ROMNEY ON FUNDING FEMA: "Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better."

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Mitt Romney's sudden transformation from a warmonger to a peacenick in the waning days of the Presidential campaign should come as no surprise. It's straight out of the Republican playbook. From Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, Republicans have campaigned for peace and then taken America to war.

In 1968,...

In the hours after the vice presidential debate, the TV pundits have been busy debating who "won." Obama's surrogates say it was Biden. Romney's surrogates say it was Ryan. A CBS News flash poll of "undecided voters" says that Biden won by 50 percent to 31 percent. A...

I can't remember being as angry and indignant as I felt when I listened to Mitt Romney tell his $50,000-a-plate guests in a mansion in Boca Raton that nearly half of America is made up essentially of moochers and looters.

This from a man who was born on third...

As a progressive activist, I've had plenty of criticisms of President Clinton, particularly for his triangulation and for his deregulation of the financial industry. (I've had my fair share of similar criticisms of President Obama, too).

But as a political junkie and student of politics, I stand in awe of...

Paul Ryan's Republican Convention speech was truly scary.

He comes off like a Midwest choir boy who grew up busing tables and just wants to help unemployed 20-year-olds get jobs and move out of their parents' house. This 'aw shucks' act may play well among heartland voters who could swing...

I supported, worked for and contributed to Barack Obama's 2008 campaign (all the while cautioning that he would often disappoint progressives once in office). I have been a proud progressive critic of President Obama after he assumed the presidency, criticizing his choice of a Wall Street-friendly economic team,...

The Supreme Court's decision upholding most of the Affordable Care Act may have grabbed the majority of the headlines last week, but important as it was both practically and constitutionally, it was not the decision that will have the most lasting impact on the future of American democracy.

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As super PAC money from millionaires, billionaires and corporations dominates the 2012 election campaign and may determine the outcome, former Republican presidential candidate John McCain filed an unsolicited brief with the Supreme Court asking the Court to rethink its ruling in Citizens United that unlimited political contributions to...

Now that President Obama's views on gay marriage have "evolved," it's time for his views on Wall Street to likewise "evolve" and for Obama to forcefully campaign to break the stranglehold of Too Big To Fail banks on the economy.

For its part, Wall Street's view of Obama has...