This week, Moodys placed our country's AAA bond rating under review. We are now no longer weeks away from default, we are days.

I love the mistakes I've made in my life. What I love most are my biggest mistakes. But I am always mystified as to why we seem unable to learn from o...

Both Schwarzenegger and Weiner are attracted to risk or they would not have chosen the professions they did. Nor would they have engaged in the behaviors that are the subject of this column.

I woke up this morning after a great night of sleep and I was so excited to see that a light snow is falling here in Potomac, Maryland, where my famil...

35 Days Until March for Justice: Urgency in Being Unreasonable for Justice Daily Blog on the Birth of the Justice Movement By Dr. Paul Zeitz Tuesd...

It was a wet cold November 22, 2009, with crystalizing winds spittling freezing breezes across the Hudson, numbing the hundreds of people gathered on ...

Watch AFP affiliates report to David Koch on their success on organizing one of the "largest tea parties in the country".

By: Renee Schomp, Program Associate, Law and Security Program. When one thinks about the terror suspects at Guantanamo, one imagines hardened crimina...

William Kristol has finally said what we've all been thinking but were either too indulgent or PC to say: Michael Steele must go.

Whitehouse proposes the attorney general step in and clean house of all regulatory agencies to insure the integrity of the personnel to make sure they are not taken over by corporate interests.

One week from today the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder which can potentially impact countless legal immigrants and asylum seekers.

If Obama wants his legacy to include health care as a right, his moment is now. He can either buckle down and focus on nothing else until it's done, or get derailed by the political play of the week.

We live in the era of the seamless 24/7 campaign. You snooze, you lose. Could just be the change that allows a new slate of candidates, including women, to emerge in both parties.

New Hampshire tends to be about two years ahead of the national electoral party trend and 2010 could prove to tip the balance of power for New Hampshire Democrats.

The ad asking whether it is 1996 or 2009 is a question Republicans should be asking themselves before they position leaders or say things that will only alienate the very voters they are losing.

At the Milken Institute Global Conference mayor Willie Brown, Congressman Harold Ford, entertainer Rush Limbaugh, and former RNC chair Ed Gillespie all graded Obama's first 100 days.

If House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pays attention, all she needs to hear has already been laid out before her. The Republican leadership resents her.

As an African American Republican, one of the irritations I have is with other Black Republicans who are apologists for racist actions and statements made by white Republican leaders.

Gov. Vilsack has integrity through and through. He is impeccable with his word, and is open about his thoughts. He also has an incredibly unusual quality for a politician (if he even is one): he listens.

Today is a demonstration of disciplined power. Both rivals, and their spouses, gave up some power to negotiate Secretary of State Clinton's new role.