Eliot Spitzer

It's 2.25pm EDT on Monday March 10, 2008

The New York Times has broken the Spitzer prostitution story. Other media are all over it.

I wonder how long it will take for standard-issue photographs of Spitzer and Hillary Clinton attending the same events - of which there must inevitably be...

On Friday, the Clinton campaign released a new ad, aimed at bolstering questions about Obama's readiness to lead. The ad was an iteration of Walter Mondale's famous "Red Phone" commercial, questioning who the American people should want answering the White House phone at 3 in the morning.

The ad was...

A few years ago, we learned that right-wing commentator Armstrong Williams, who had been noisily touting the virtues of "No Child Left Behind' on his radio program, was getting handsomely paid for his labors by the Bush administration's Department of Education. The liberal commentocracy went crazy, and rightly so....

New York Governor Elliot Spitzer's approval rating is at an all-time low of 36%, according to a recent survey conducted by the Siena College Research Institute. This is a far cry from his 69% approval rating when he took office. The survey polled about one thousand voters in...

The mayor of New York has given up his attempt to issue drivers' licenses to undocumented aliens. And Hillary will soon be gently moonwalking away from that moment when she seemed to agree with it. Immigration as political football. Xenophobia occasionally disguised as patriotism and a stern immigration policy....

Thursday night, in Vegas, the Democratic hopefuls meet again for the next big debate showdown of this intensifying primary season. But before we get there, it is worth pausing a moment to consider the memorable events of the previous big debate showdown in Philly - and why the GOP was...

That means you too, Rahm Emanuel.

Headline from New York's election results last night:

"New York Democrats Say License Issue Had Little Effect"

And in Virginia, here's the headline:

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As much as I admire Chris Dodd's efforts to preserve the Constitution and oppose the circumvention of the courts as they examine whether or not U. S. telecoms broke the law by aiding the administration as...

My new nationally syndicated newspaper column is out today, and it focuses on the Toxic Trade report the Campaign for America's Future (where I am a senior fellow at) put out this week. Read the column here or go listen to the replay of my regular...

Lou Dobbs is at it again. His target this time? Governor Eliot Spitzer and his plan to provide drivers licenses to New Yorkers regardless of their citizenship.

In developing your own opinion on the Governor's proposal consider this: If, like Lou Dobbs, you believe political pandering that exploits...

Earlier this month New York Governor Eliot Spitzer announced that he would be issuing driver licenses to undocumented immigrants -- this is a bold and smart move. Not only is this good politics, it is also good policy. The simple fact is unlicensed drivers are almost five times more...

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A new weapon has been brought to bear in the war on coal, and it's aimed right at the corpulent industry's soft underbelly: risk.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo just sent out a round of subpoenas to energy companies. He wants to see internal documents demonstrating that...