I know there was probably a time where those who supported a Benghazi inquiry were able to deftly maintain that their interests had nothing to do with...

For Democrats this is too good to be true. While Republicans continue to try to smear former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over Benghazi, she long ago accepted her share of responsibility, and her popularity continues to tower above all national figures in American public life.

As I've noted before, while a bipartisan "Gang" of eight senators are the prime movers behind the renewed hopes for passage of a comprehensive immigra...

The conservative National Review magazine has an amusing article about the far-right reincarnation of Joe McCarthy, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), considering a run for the presidency. It's not intended to be amusing, I don't think, but it is.

During the 2012 election cycle I occasionally ran stories declaring that various Republicans being touted as White House material “will never be pre...

I gave Reince Priebus and his minions too much credit the other day. His “autopsy” of the Republican Party’s disastrous 2012 election cycle most...

A columnist for conservative site the National Review Online has written a piece suggesting female soldiers who have been raped struggle after they le...

While Republican governors like Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Rick Perry of Texas play games with people's lives to throw red meat to the extremists in their party, Kasich and the a growing number of GOP governors put the needs of their state before their political party.

I think that if the Atlantic gets to run what amounts to advertorial content about the Church of Scientology, it's only natural that the National Revi...

Democrats opposing Bork's nomination would have seen their votes as not just a stand against a particular judicial nominee but as a vote against the social agenda of an administration they felt was attempting to turn the page on the progress of previous decades.

I can certainly understand the phenomenon of Republican "poll denial." Six years ago, I was a staunch supporter of Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Kerry Healey, the Republican opponent of Democrat Deval Patrick.

The vomit of racism still finds a place in Republican Party politics. It is sad to watch John Sununu -- twenty years ago, a younger Sununu might have known better. But it is even sadder to watch the rest of Lincoln's old party sink in the mire.

When yesterday's social media coverage of Hurricane Sandy accidentally dredged up an old photo of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment's Tomb Sentinels ...

Tuesday last week would have been Milton Friedman's 100th birthday. The American conservative establishment effectively renounced him on that day.

Is GOP adopting a soft birtherism when it repeats that the American president doesn't understand the country that elected him?