Republicans, armed with private investigators, are pursuing a new strategy to preserve their power: take away part-time residents' right to vote here....
The New York Review of Books | Jonathan Raban | Posted 12.24.2009 | Books
"Sarah and Her Tribe", Jonathan Raban New York Review of Books, Forthcoming in the January 14, 2010 issue "Going Rogue: An American Life" by Sarah Pa...
Taylor Marsh | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics
If we had more liberals in Washington, instead of blathering about perfection being the enemy of the good, we'd have heard a rallying cry that mediocre is the enemy of effective.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics
"Gather 'round, you little lovelies -- how'd you like your Grampa to tell you a bit of a Christmas story?" "Well, I think I just might then. Have you ever heard the tale of Nelson the Hard-Nosed Reindeer?"
Steve Marmel | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics
He's betting his job on the idea the economy will still be in the tank, and unemployment will still be double-digit. That things will be no better. That is the spirit of Griffith's shift.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics
The health reform bill the corporate oligarchy just purchased from the best Congress money can buy has investors stoked, as the soaring stock prices of health industry corporations reach a 52-year high point!
AP | NATE JENKINS | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska – never seen as a key player with special needs in the health care debate – stands to reap millions of doll...
Wall Street Journal | Jonathan Weisman | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics
Slumping in the polls and struggling to pass climate and financial legislation, President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders are counting on an histo...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats confidently advanced health care legislation Sunday toward a make-or-break test vote in a push for Christmas-week ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.20.2009 | Politics
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ripped into the president on Sunday for abandoning his pledge to foster bipartisanship in Washington, accusing Obama of cre...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.19.2009 | Politics
The Senate Democratic caucus is unified following a Saturday meeting and poised to pass a much-weakened health care reform proposal before Christmas d...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 12.19.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — After marathon talks, the Obama administration and Democratic leaders appeared near agreement with Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson late Fr...
Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 12.19.2009 | Politics
It's extremely important for those on the left, liberals and progressives alike, not to give in too easily. Why are we the only ones who need to compromise?
The Washington Post | Philip Rucker | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics
To voters in this hard-luck town where stable factory jobs and the health care that came with them have long since disappeared, change looked good a ...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 12.19.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate headed for a Saturday morning vote on a package that funds the Pentagon and keeps other key programs, including benefits...
Vanessa Carmichael | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics
The Left loses key battles because most Americans don't understand the very basics of American democracy--especially that we do not have a parliament.
Washington Post | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics
The White House -- as we wrote yesterday -- is dead set on passing the health care bill and will stop at nothing politically to get it done. But, ...
The Washington Post | Howard Dean | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics
If I were a senator, I would not vote for the current health-care bill. Any measure that expands private insurers' monopoly over health care and trans...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics
In December's survey, for the first time, less than half of Americans approved of the job President Barack Obama was doing, marking a steeper first-ye...
Evan Handler | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics
While cutting benefits available to those that need them, Blue Cross of California will simultaneously be raising the cost to employers of purchasing coverage for their workers.
David Sirota | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics
Joe Lieberman is the single most powerful Senate force since Lyndon Johnson's Master of the Senate days. And his power teaches an important lesson to us all.
Salon | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics
Of all the posts I wrote this year, the one that produced the most vociferious email backlash -- easily -- was this one from August, which examined su...
Evan Handler | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics
I'd ask, "What is the world coming to?" except the rest of the world seems to be making sense. Of the industrialized nations, it's only ours that doesn't provide some form of "universal" health care coverage to its citizens.
John R. Bohrer | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics
Lieberman is too egotistic (and from too blue of a state) to come out and admit that his sole purpose is to block reform from happening. But Michael Steele isn't.
AP | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will meet with Senate Democrats at the White House Tuesday to press for action at a make-or-break moment for...
nytimes.com | NICHOLAS CONFESSORE | Posted 12.25.2009 | New York