Whether Scott Brown acknowledges it or not, blocking the EPA from updating clean air standards would make some kids sicker. There is no arguing that point.
Ignoring the health implications of Brown's vote is equivalent to someone saying they voted to lower the age for buying cigarettes, not because they want kids to get lung disease but because it's good for commerce.
Last month health care advocates celebrated the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. But the reality is that for most families, nothing has changed.
It should have been the lead story from coast to coast: A bipartisan panel of senators released a damning report that slammed bankers, regulators and ratings agencies. Yet the media responded with a collective yawn.
As many predicted, the revolutionary feeling that swept Scott Brown into office didn't last. When the Republican wave swept across the nation this past November, it didn't break in Massachusetts.
Wisconsin is a generational choice. Just as the greatest generation was judged by World War Two, the Mad Men generation was judged by civil rights and the baby boomers were judged by Vietnam, ours will be judged by Wisconsin.
Too many of us think it's only our family that's filled with horror, or secrets, or moments of the deepest shame. We read these books and we are less alone.
Wyden-Brown gives the Republicans everything they asked for -- the freedom to do things their own way in Republican states. The fact that they are running away from this sort of challenge is telling.
The president fails comprehend that his style of public vacillation and preemptive compromise is more to blame for the disillusionment so many Democrats share than the substance of what he gave up.
After tens of millions of dollars thrown into the recent election scaring people about their taxes and the jobless recovery, their disinformation campaign of lies has peaked. Voters remorse is setting in.
With trust and confidence between the United States and Russia growing, failing to ratify New START would needlessly harm our relationship.
Tea Party activists, from someone on the other side of the aisle, I respected the impact you were able to make on the 2010 election. Now is the time to continue to flex your muscles.
How do you reach a point where the political center point of our nation seemingly represents the interests of the top 5 percent of the population? The answer is massive and growing inequality in America.
The 9/11 health bill faces a vote in the Senate. Democratic backers are one Republican vote short of passage.
The renovation has been in planning since 1999, and no details were spared. Bostonians have always taken their art seriously.
Does Olympia Snowe really want to be the target of waves of anonymous attack ads in support of some conservative primary challenger?