Two fuses were lit this past week that could eventually explode later in John McCain's campaign -- a housing-banking crisis and the senator's penchant for falsehoods that gives new meaning to Bush III.
Caroline Presno | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
The majority of poker pros I interviewed believe Obama's got "the nuts"-- meaning he's holding a better hand than McCain.
Robert Naiman | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
This country urgently needs more members of Congress like Barney Frank, who are willing to state forthrightly that they made a mistake.
Tom Gregory | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
In the second part of my interview with Barney Frank, he talks bluntly with me about his views on drug policy and the legalization of medical marijuana.
Tom Gregory | Posted 05.31.2008 | Politics
Rep. Barney Frank told me this week about his Times quip, about his fitness to judge the "Miss America" contest, the acrid tongue of Dick Armey, and how time will prove that equality for all is a step toward a stronger America.
Jeff Madrick | Posted 05.13.2008 | Business
With jobs at hedge funds waiting for those leaving government, re-regulation may be a losing battle. The potential regulators and the regulated are one and the same.
Peter Dreier | Posted 05.12.2008 | Home
Overlay a home foreclosures map onto a map of districts where Republicans voted "no" last week on Barney Frank's assistance bill, and you get a list of vulnerable GOP incumbents nationwide.
Jeff Madrick | Posted 05.07.2008 | Business
The Barney Frank mortgage plan isn't perfect. But the Bush administration should be talking about improving the plan, not resorting to ideological nonsense about minimal government interference.
AP | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Rep. Barney Frank said the trailing Democratic presidential candidate should drop out of the race by no later than June 3 _ the dat...
Robert Weissman | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business
Have things changed at the International Monetary Fund? Or is the world just witnessing yet another in a long series of global economic double standar...
Washington Independnent | Mike Lillis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Last week, as Wall Street was flailing over the collapse of one of its largest investment banks, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) took a podium and told me...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
The folks who helped dig the hole we are in aren't likely to be the best in getting us out of it.
Politico | Josh Bresnahan | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics
Rep. Barney Frank will soon introduce legislation to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana, the Massachusetts Democrat said during an appearance on...
New York Post | Paul Tharp | Posted 03.13.2008 | Business
Wilbur Ross - who's betting $1 billion that municipalities will beat their latest funding crisis - says politicians are trying to help but have it all...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
It is increasingly unseemly for superdelegates to stand by as the Clinton campaign resorts to techniques that would have made Jesse Helms blush 20 years ago.
Michael Russnow | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business
It is time for our representatives in Washington to pass a law that puts the responsibility on those who accept credit cards to make certain that the card holder is the person in whose name it is issued.
Boston Globe's Political Intelligence | Susan Milligan | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics
It's a time-worn president's trick: walk up to a congressman chatting on the phone and send your regards to the astonished person on the other end of ...
Kate Bornstein | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics
ENDA would have mostly protected people who cleaned up well enough to get a job in the first place: straight-looking people.
Rev. Peter Laarman | Posted 11.06.2007 | Living
Have any of the leading Democratic presidential candidates renounced the dominance doctrine or the basic underlying premises of the war on terror?
Lisa Wade | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics
To exclude transsexuals would allow the division of the disadvantaged and this division weakens all disadvantaged groups.
Sara Whitman | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics
In an eloquent flurry, Barney Frank blamed the 300-plus LGBT groups who have signed on to leave ENDA inclusive of transgender people. Seems we've touched a nerve.
Sara Whitman | Posted 10.01.2007 | Living
The acronym is LGBT rights. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender rights. If we start picking and choosing amongst ourselves, we are no better than the people who would fire us for being different.
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Mark Green | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics