Much has already been said about Politico editor John F. Harris's recent idiotic "7 stories Barack Obama doesn't want told" article. Matt Yglesias mak...
Deborah Jacobs | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
Corzine has weeks to seal his legacy, and the Democratic legislature has to push through its most powerful members' agenda items as well, before it faces unknown terrain with Chris Christie.
Geoff Kors | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Over the past year, voters have stripped away marriage rights in California and Maine. And the California Supreme Court failed in its obligation to protect our fundamental freedom to marry. So now what?
Page Gardner | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
The Rising American Electorate now constitutes a majority of the voting-eligible population in America. And it goes without saying that if they stay home in 2010, the chances for progressive reforms will drop.
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration does not seem to understand that this rage, left unaddressed, could consume it. It has pushed aside the entreaties of many --...
Karl Frisch | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
Back in 2001, conservative media figures were adamant. Democratic Party victories at the ballot boxes during the off-year elections had little national significance.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
The biggest surprise Tuesday wasn't in the gubernatorial or congressional races, it was Michael Bloomberg's remarkably close re-election.
The Denver Post | Jessica Fender | Posted 11.05.2009 | Denver
The Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts will continue to operate in aging, asbestos-filled buildings. Aurora will close four of its seven librar...
Washington Post | Philip Rucker and Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
A rebounding Republican Party savored victories in two states that President Obama won last year, but as it tries to build momentum toward what GOP Ch...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
Karl Rove wasn't too happy about the way the White House dismissed the Most Important Off-Off-Year Elections In United States History, and amid a weir...
Ari Melber | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Even as the results from actual, live campaigns in Virginia and New Jersey roll in, the political and media establishment is fixated on the anniversary of Obama's election.
B.D. Gallof | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York
Tom Suozzi's supposed easy ride to a third term blew out in embarrassing fashion as many voters were not seeing change or results.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Congress should be America's representative body, yet too many of its members bear little resemblance to those they have been elected to represent.
Shan Wells | Posted 11.04.2009 | Denver
When even old George Will thinks Mary Jane is riding the Freedom Express, you know that national legalization can't be too far away.
Simon Rosenberg | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
It is the fundamental failure to make the economy the central issue of this Presidency that has left the door open for the Republicans. It is also a door that it easily closed next year by the President and his team.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Republicans, conservative Democrats, and corporate lobbyists are all eagerly lining up to spin the losses as evidence that Democrats should go slower. That is the worst possible thing they could do right now.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
The election results show that no incumbent governor (or incumbent party) can escape the wrath of an electorate that continues to bleed while it watches tax dollars squandered on foreign wars and Wall Street fat cats.
Ben Tribbett | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
If this election serves as a reminder that pandering to right wingers is not a successful electoral strategy -- then Deeds will have done even more good for Democrats than if he had won today.
David Sirota | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
While the Democratic Party certainly has its problems right now, these contests do a better job of illustrating severe Republican weakness than anything else.
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Tuesday's elections are local races -- not measures of President Obama's ability to deliver or a referendum on the president's popularity, according t...
Huff TV | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
Arianna joined Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, on The Joy Behar Show tonight to discuss Rush Limbaugh slamming President Ob...
New York Times | ADAM NAGOURNEY | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics
At the very least, the results in the governors' races, if not predictive, are quite likely to drive the political narrative, bolstering or diminishin...
John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.28.2009 | New York
Christie is now on film, getting short with someone for daring to question the whims of the health care industry.
Joe Trippi | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
This poll shows that despite how much McAuliffe thinks this race is all about the money, in Virginia money isn't everything.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media