Maybe part of the issue is our own complicity by getting depressed rather than angry.

In election after election, the same opportunity remains unrealized -- the possibility that either extreme could unite with the center to exclude the most extreme policies of the other.

David Feige's post, My President's Day Message -- An Open Letter to President Obama http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-feige/my-presidents-day-messa...

Eager to prove that the Democratic Party left him and not the other way around, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) urged his colleagues on Tuesday to mov...

I have criticized the Democrats for failing to properly use the power of their majority in Congress and the mandate from an overwhelming victory last November, so it's only right I give them their props for finally taking charge.

Two key conservative Democrats hinted on Wednesday that they support the health care reform compromises adopted by the party's leadership, including t...

Baucus' entire goal was to construct a bipartisan plan. Mission accomplished. Insofar as both parties hate it. He tailored his plan to appeal to the Republicans who, as it turns out, don't support the plan anyway.

To play the centrist political game correctly requires compromise, conciliation, and bipartisanship. Obama learned early that this was the sure-fire way to bag the big financial and corporate dollars.

The August break, when members of Congress go home to their districts to be screamed at (or to escape to the beach), seems like a good time to examine...

The influential conservative Democrats who are combating their own party's efforts to overhaul health care could ironically wind up being among the bi...

In the high-stakes battle over health care, a growing cadre of liberal activists is aiming its sharpest firepower against Democratic senators who they...

If the government-run plan is so good it would be an improvement over the private insurers, why are the Republicans against it? Isn't the goal better care at lower costs?

Contrary to what John Boehner says, a big foot needs to be placed on the financial industry to make sure that last year's near collapse can never happen again.

Americans United for Change, a key Democratic-backing group, will begin airing an ad today aimed at prodding Senate "centrists" to support President O...

A coalition of progressive groups and officials announced the launch of a media and grassroots campaign Tuesday to target conservative Democrats they ...