Much is being made of the failure of big money to buy many political races during this last election. In fact, big donors are being ridiculed because their candidate purchases were so wasted.

This failure is being used to undermine campaign finance reform, primarily the effort to overturn the Supreme...

While media attention has been focused on the "fiscal cliff," the January 1st vote and the upcoming debt ceiling battle, a more important vote is scheduled for the Senate next week: the reform of the Senate filibuster rules.

After all, the fiscal cliff "just" involved the budget. Senate filibusters now...

An array of the best and the brightest from the U.S. business community, also known as the "super wealthy" -- including Warren Buffett and George Soros -- asked Congress on last week to strengthen the estate tax.

And just as Buffett did two weeks ago with regard to the Alternative...

In his first press conference following his reelection, President Obama said that he wanted to avoid the fiscal cliff and was open to "new ideas."

Well, President Obama, here's a new idea: reform the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) and then make it progressive. That is start with today's, current 29...

One Wall Street Journal pundit after another called this year's election the most important of our lifetime, a choice between European "socialism" and American "traditionalism."

I guess Americans prefer European socialism. But you won't hear that from them. (OK, the American right's misstatements aren't limited to election predictions. European socialism...

Just two weeks before the election, President Obama finally released a second term agenda. "Good timing," said John Nichols of The Nation. People are paying attention. Really?

Mitt Romney is. While saying that his own agenda is one of "big ideas" that will change the country, he...

Although President Obama has faced no shortage of criticism about his debate performance, the criticism hasn't gone far enough. The president's showing called into question not just his approach to this one event, but his ability to extend that rare occurrence: the liberal moment.

The polls reflect...

Mitt Romney says that a new management crew took over Bain Capital in 1999 and ran the company differently than he would have. He indicates that he would not have indulged in the outsourcing that Bain's investments indulged in after Romney gave up his formal operational role in February 1999.

To the right wing, the legal dispute over just one aspect of Obamacare isn't about the optimal strategy for health care delivery in the United States.

No, it's about the very nature of the U.S. economy, about whether America will remain America. The Wall Street Journal's Daniel Henninger

No political candidate wants their past sins exposed. Who wants your financial or sexual gaffes (which is really too weak a word) to be headline news?

But, the old line "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" applies here. A terrible incident (especially more than one) can kill you,...

An annual Washington rite will be televised tonight. The Kennedy Center Honors will be on CBS and -- for the 34th straight year -- Woody Allen will not be among those honored. Yet, Public Broadcasting's recent broadcast of a two-part biography on Woody Allen (Woody Allen: A Documentary) and the...

It is one of the givens of American politics: Presidential candidates don't run campaigns from the philosophical extremes of their parties. They run them from the middle. Ben Wattenberg and Richard Scammon wrote a book about it, The Real Majority, back in the 1960s when they were concerned that the...

This year, tax week coincides with the Federal Budget battle, so perhaps it's no surprise when comedian Dennis Miller tells Fox News host Bill O'Reilly that Democrats want state and federal governments to take 51% of his income and he'd like a 1% refund so it's not more than half.

Yesterday was the 38th anniversary of the historic Watergate meeting where White House Counsel John Dean told President Richard Nixon that there was a "cancer on the presidency." With the passage of time, the story of Watergate has congealed: Nixon authorized the "cover-up" but was ignorant of the...

Given the results of the mid-term election, perhaps it's inevitable that President Obama is again using the term "bi-partisanship". Unfortunately, it doesn't look like he's gotten any better at it.

During the first two years of his Administration, Obama acted as if wishing for Republican cooperation would make it...

With the mid-term results coming in, a classic political battle is shaping up. Not between Democrats and Republicans, but between Democrats and Democrats.

President Barack Obama is now saying that he can't be seen as a "tax-and-spend" liberal. This may not be the accurate frame: Americans don't want presidents who...

Many Democrats are recognizing that the federal government is broken and are lining up to "fix" the Senate filibuster. Some want to reduce the cloture requirement to 55 Senators. Others want to do away with the filibuster entirely.

There's only one problem: many Democratic Senators are reluctant...