How Sarah Palin Might Win The White House
President Sarah Palin. To many pundits and late-night comedians, this sounds like a punch line, and to many die-hard Democrats it sounds like a reason...
President Sarah Palin. To many pundits and late-night comedians, this sounds like a punch line, and to many die-hard Democrats it sounds like a reason...
nytimes.com | RAYMOND HERNANDEZ and JIM RUTENBERG | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York
As an ethics investigation into his financial dealings continues, Mr. Rangel's once-considerable clout is diminished and his spirits are often gloomy,...
TIME | Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
Nearly 100 days after Barack Obama entered office, his top White House lawyer, Greg Craig, braced the President's senior advisers for a potentially ex...
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media
AT last the American right and left have one issue they unequivocally agree on: You don't actually have to read Sarah Palin's book to have an opinion ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
Harry Reid sealed the biggest legislative victory of his career Saturday night with a kiss. And then a hug. Emotionally reserved doesn't begin to des...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AP)-- Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
The Senate has voted to move forward with the health care bill. The vote was 60-39 in favor of debating the bill put forward by Senate Majority Leader...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
Harry Reid thinks he's got enough votes, but then this is the reason why the vote keeps getting pushed back -- because he's obviously still scrambling for the final few votes before he moves ahead.
Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Republicans have a well-oiled propaganda machine to facilitate the fantasy of strength and popularity. The message is always the same -- whether the GOP wins or loses, it always wins.
Huff TV | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media
Huffpost political reporter Sam Stein appeared on The Ed Show Wednesday and weighed in on the nation's high unemployment rate and what it could mean f...
Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Democrats in Congress want to use unspent TARP funds to support homeowners and struggling workers, according to The Hill. More than half of the Democ...
John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
The Republicans' strategy of slowing down change couldn't be more evident than in the perpetually extending health care debate. But they have been successful at promulgating the idea that they, too, are touting change.
New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
Germany's jobs miracle hasn't received much attention in this country -- but it's real, it's striking, and it raises serious questions about whether t...
The Hill | Mike Soraghan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
House Democratic leaders, worried they've appeared unresponsive to rising unemployment because they were absorbed by healthcare, are aiming for a legi...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
No matter what healthcare bill passes, it is not going to remain static. It is going to be revisited again and again over the next few decades. That's how lawmaking works.
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
WASHINGTON — Bringing those accused in the Sept. 11 attacks to New York for trial would increase the security threat to the city and give radica...
Politics Daily | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
If Palin can maintain, say, 35-percent support in a multi-candidate presidential field, then she is the odds-on favorite for the GOP nomination. The ...
Matt Dunn | Posted 11.17.2009 | Technology
The reality is that Election Day 2010 is one year away. It's time for campaigns to start gearing up, and interactive needs to play a bigger role than it did in 2008 or 2009.
New York Times | ROBERT PEAR | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world's la...
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
For all the right's jeremiads, its own brand of political correctness kept it from connecting two crucial dots: how our failing war against terrorists...
Taylor Marsh | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
Stranger things than a Sarah Palin comeback have happened. George W. Bush beat Democrats twice. Are people really going to argue that Bush is smarter than Sarah?
Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Had Senate Banking Committee's Chairman Chris Dodd's proposal been effective before the crisis, where would we be today?
Kim Stagliano | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
I used to say I was politically pro-choice but personally pro-life, meaning I would never consider having an abortion. That was until I was faced with the choice of carrying a baby to term myself.
Nelson Montana | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
The Republican strategy was ingenious. They forced the administration to concede and compromise, got much of what they demanded and still complain when it fails. Brilliant.
John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
Over the last few months, a number of prominent political columnists have pointed to historian and social critic Richard Hofstadter to explain what is happening to the Republican Party. Here's why they shouldn't.
Washington Post | Matthew Dowd | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics