On CBS's Face the Nation this week, GOP Congressman Darrel Issa held forth once again on the Obama administration's "failures" surrounding the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya last October. Later this week his Congressional Committee will open hearings.

Other Republicans pontificated about the president's failure to...

On Wednesday, supporters of legislation to limit gun violence failed to muster the 60 votes necessary to stop a Republican filibuster of the Toomey-Manchin compromise that would expand background checks to include all commercial gun sales in the United States.

Polls show that universal background checks are supported by...

The big lie in American politics today is that "America is broke" or "in this time of austerity we have to tighten our belts." America is not broke. We are not in a time of "scarcity" and when we buy into this fallacy, we contribute to political decisions that actually...

There is a real, looming danger for the Republican Party -- and it goes well beyond the Party's failure to use the latest digital or analytic tools.

The dilemma facing the Republican Party today can be traced to the massive social changes that erupted in the 1960's. The...

A day doesn't go by that a group of pundits doesn't gather on a news show to hold forth about the automatic budget cuts contained in the so-called "sequester." Many spend much of their time obsessing on some morsel of insider minutiae, or unthinkingly restate assumptions that are just plain...

Let's call it what it really is. The Republicans have a gun pointed to the head of the American economy and threaten to shoot if they don't get their way. They lost at the ballot box -- their positions are unpopular in the polls -- so they have abandoned the...

Yesterday rocker Ted Nugent announced that he would attend President Obama's State of the Union speech -- and then hold a press conference afterward to comment.

Nugent will attend at the invitation of Republican Congressman Steve Stockman of Texas. But the message he sends is toxic for the Republican...

There are two major pillars of Republican economic ideology.

First is "trickle down" economics -- the notion that if we allow the wealthiest two percent to accumulate more and more of the fruits of our economy, the benefits will "trickle down" to everyone else.

The second is fiscal austerity...

For years the NRA has struck terror into the hearts of many Members of Congress. The organization's officers and lobbyists purported to represent the interests and wishes of millions of American gun owners.

Members of Congress believed that negative NRA ratings -- and a flood of NRA money -- could...

Politico quotes conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer as saying that the "fiscal cliff" bill passed by the Congress last night was a "complete rout for Democrats" and '"complete surrender" for the GOP. That may be overstating the case, but there is little question that raising tax rates for top income earners...

Often, economic crises are caused by real physical problems - like draught, war, demography, or technological innovation that robs one economy of a competitive advantage over another.

Other times, economic crises result when asset bubbles burst, or financial markets collapse. That was the case of the Great Depression -...

The tragedy in Connecticut forces America to confront a simple question: Why should we allow easy access to a weapon of mass destruction just because it could conceivably be referred to as a "gun"?

I count myself among the many Americans who at various points in their lives have...

The odds are increasing that President Obama and the Democrats will rout the Republicans in the current battle over the "fiscal cliff."

I realize that all of the "wise men" of Washington are clamoring for a bi-partisan solution to fix the nation's deficit -- a "solution" that involves "shared sacrifice."...

To hear some pundits tell it, the Lame Duck budget battle is about the "unsustainable federal deficit," or "entitlement reform," or even "tax rates." These characterizations make it sound like a contest between two competing sets of policies and programs.

But underlying all of the policy-speak, the Lame...

Sunday's morning shows featured some astoundingly stupid comments from Republicans who claim to believe that on Election Day voters gave them a "mandate" to continue their attempts to obstruct President Obama's agenda.

Apparently some Republican pundits are still living in the same parallel universe that allowed them to convince themselves...

Tuesday's election was important for many reasons. Its outcome will certainly benefit millions and millions of people -- both in the United States and around the world. And President Obama's campaign will be remembered as one of the best-run political efforts in the history of American politics.

But beyond...

In 2000, our consulting firm helped put together a field operation in the South Florida Congressional race for a wonderful Democratic woman named Elaine Bloom.

We organized a terrific program -- great voter identification -- great get-out-the-vote. But in the end, Bloom lost by about 550 votes. They were...

My wife, Jan Schakowsky, and I are friends with a wonderful woman named Bea. Bea is now 95 years old. Bea was born in 1917.

She was born in a country where women couldn't vote. In some areas of the country, just fifty years before, slavery had been...

Au début de la semaine -alors qu'il faisait le tour du pays pour Barack Obama-, l'ancien Président Bill Clinton a remplacé au pied levé le Président pendant que ce dernier revenait à Washington pour superviser l'organisation du pays face à l'ouragan.

Cela semble être le contexte approprié...

Au début de la semaine -alors qu'il faisait le tour du pays pour Barack Obama-, l'ancien Président Bill Clinton a remplacé au pied levé le Président pendant que ce dernier revenait à Washington pour superviser l'organisation du pays face à l'ouragan.

Cela semble être le contexte approprié...