Frank Rich: White House Doesn't Seem To Understand Public's Wall Street Rage
The Obama administration does not seem to understand that this rage, left unaddressed, could consume it. It has pushed aside the entreaties of many --...
The Obama administration does not seem to understand that this rage, left unaddressed, could consume it. It has pushed aside the entreaties of many --...
David Parker | Posted 11.07.2009 | Comedy
Any time an American does anything at all, it is a demonstration of his or her support for, or opposition to, the President and his policies. Paying attention, Russia? That's how democracy works.
Lisa Solod Warren | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Arianna Huffington 's headline in HuffPo Tuesday was "Obama One Year Later: The Audacity of Winning vs The Timidity of Governing." On Wednesday's Ha...
Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
In the three big races of Election Day, the incumbent party lost. In order to turn around the country's anti-incumbency mood, our elected officials are going to have to start tackling the issues.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
I think as people continue to see so much of politics as usual in this town -- partisan bickering and big money buying votes -- they are increasingly likely to vote against whatever represents the old politics for them.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
The biggest surprise Tuesday wasn't in the gubernatorial or congressional races, it was Michael Bloomberg's remarkably close re-election.
Laura Chapin | Posted 11.05.2009 | Denver
What, if anything, does the Republican red swing in Virginia mean for fellow swing state Colorado? Not as much as the Republicans would like to think.
Joe Peyronnin | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
The young and minority voters were not motivated enough to come out and vote. Could the president have had a favorable impact had he delivered on his pledge to change Washington, even just a little?
HuffingtonPost | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
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New York Times | ADAM NAGOURNEY | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics
At the very least, the results in the governors' races, if not predictive, are quite likely to drive the political narrative, bolstering or diminishin...
BBC NEWS | Posted 11.01.2009 | World
President Hamid Karzai's rival in the second round of the Afghan presidential election has announced that he is withdrawing from the poll....
Edward Wytkind | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
Unionization in the airline industry has slowed. Why? Union-busting campaigns are alive and well because current election policy encourages employer-run voter suppression campaigns.
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
Why, with so much going for him and his country, should the president of Brazil make such controversial choices in his friends? The logic of the relationship with Iran is perplexing.
Joanne Doroshow | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
The U.S. Chamber created the ILR to pursue the Chamber's so-called "tort reform" agenda: protecting corporations from liability, weakening the civil jury system and blocking the courthouse door for sick and injured Americans.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
Yesterday, over 300,000 people picked up the phone and called Congress demanding health care reform this year. The phones ringing off the hook certainly did not go unnoticed by Congress.
Mark Green | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
If you have an election where the winner gets four percent of the eligible electorate, is that a functioning democracy? I just lost such a runoff contest in New York City.
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.10.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — Three defendants in Iran's mass trial of opposition figures accused of fueling the country's postelection unrest have been senten...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
When pundits labeled last year's presidential campaign "divisive" and "dirty," I had to laugh. The champion of all dirty races in this century, in fact, was the 1934 contest between Upton Sinclair and Frank Merriam.
Arundhati Roy | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
What happens now that democracy and the free market have fused into a single predatory organism with a thin, constricted imagination that revolves almost entirely around the idea of maximizing profit?
fivethirtyeight.com | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics
One of the things about the so-called Gang of Six -- the group of Senators to which Max Baucus issued an exclusive invitation to participate in health...
The Hill's Blog Briefing Room | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
The 2010 congressional elections will be the "toughest midterm elections Democrats have ever faced," Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) acknowledged toda...
Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
After Republicans sought repeated assurances from Justice Sotomayor that she'd follow the law, and precedent, we are about to found out of Republican appointees likewise feel bound to that commitment.
Robert Weissman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Overturning the court's precedents on corporate election expenditures would be nothing short of a disaster.
AP | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
PARIS — Afghan President Hamid Karzai says in an interview published in France that the United States is attacking him because it wants to him t...
Rob Richie | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
The United States' largest voting equipment vendor just bought the second-largest, Diebold. 120 million registered voters live in jurisdictions using one of these two companies' systems
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics