While the Bush administration has opposed direct contact with the Iranian government, Tehran bears overwhelming responsibility for the failure to initiate a dialogue between the two countries.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had himself a holy snit-fit over a perceived slight from Majority Leader Harry Reid over judicial no...
TreeHugger.com | Jeremy Elton Jacquot | Posted 06.03.2008 | Green
After a two-year long uphill battle, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) succeeded in getting his pet project, a fuel-efficient tweak of the federal vehicle-l...
Emily Berman and Aziz Huq | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
The executive is assigned the tools to respond to danger -- which also makes it the branch that poses the greatest risk to our own liberties and the branch in greatest need of oversight.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business
With a motivated and focused Congress, zeroing in on NOPEC legislation with enough votes to override the president's ever obstructionist veto, much could happen to solve our energy and global warming nightmare swiftly.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
This serious economic situation greatly raises the stakes of the 2008 election. What will the government do to help the victims of economic mismanagement, to provide health insurance, and to restart the economy?
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics
Could it be that Senator McCain doesn't want the public to see the maverick image he worked so hard to create is nothing more than a straw man?
Steven Crandell | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
Nuclear weapons are seen as the most serious and immediate threat to human life on the planet, but few of us know much about that threat.
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
For the 22 Senators opposing this crucial legislation, I can only express my disappointment. For them, partisanship came before patriotism.
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday subpoenaed President Bush's former chief political adviser, Karl Rove, to testify about w...
Gigi Sohn | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media
After 40 years of uninterrupted strengthening and lengthening of copyright laws, we have before us an opportunity for significant reform, and even baby steps should be encouraged.
Omid Memarian | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
One of the strongest scenarios among neo-conservatives is based on the hypothesis that in the case of any military attack against Iran, the greatest beneficiary would be John McCain.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
Because Bush has little to offer in the way of a new American Middle East strategy, he preyed on Israelis' worst fears. That's quite a birthday present to a nation that has endured so much.
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
The landmark new GI Bill is a tremendous and bipartisan commitment to our troops. We've seen enough bumper sticker and lapel pin patriotism; today, we saw the real thing.
Mickey Edwards | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
Desperate to find a way to win, Republicans in Congress are in danger of doing precisely the opposite of what they should be doing. They are being advised to tie themselves to the fortunes of John McCain.
Nick Nyhart | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
Candidates running for Congress still have to rely on those who can write four figure checks and bundle big sums of cash for their campaigns.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
Congress has grown less popular, but increasing majorities think the solution is to throw out Republicans, not Democrats. 29 Republicans looked at the race and decided to retire, and others suffered stunning special election defeats. "Our brand is still under repair," Boehner noted recently. So he called out the marketing gurus. Over the next week, he promises to roll out a new agenda to go with a new slogan . If John McCain, a 35-year veteran of the beltway, can market himself as a maverick for change, why not the House Republicans? But Boehner's rollout is likely to run into perilous craters.
Sean Gilfillan | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
We servicemen depend on Congress to be our union, to fight for us, to set the standard for the rest of the country as to how we are perceived, how we are respected within society, and how we are valued.
Tom Matzzie | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
McCain has a credible brand with the public, who see him as a maverick and a reformer. He may be able to use his own popularity to infuse the Republicans with new life and a new narrative -- the "Change Republican."
Washington Post | Paul Kane | Posted 05.11.2008 | Politics
Since losing 30 seats and their 12-year stranglehold on power in 2006, House Republicans have kept asking themselves the same question: Can it get any...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
Now that that's all over with, can we please focus on beating John McCain? Virtually everyone (with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton -- I gue...
Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration and its amen corner in the Senate are trying to leave its stamp on affordable housing by killing off one of the most successful experiments in low income homeownership in a generation.
William Fisher | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
Who should we blame for retired military men getting themselves hired by TV networks to be talking head cheerleaders for "progress" in Iraq? The Penta...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.05.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — A rising tide of late mortgage payments and home foreclosures poses considerable dangers to the national economy, Federal Reserve C...
Rob Kall | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics
Even the worst Democrat is better than a Republican in Congress, but we all have to work to keep elected Democrats' feet to the progressive fire, pushing them further left.
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HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
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Trita Parsi | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics