Scozzafava Tells Her Story: 'My Name's A Verb Now'
Over Halloween weekend, Dede Scozzafava morphed from a rosy-cheeked Republican mom to a political figure of speech. "My name's a verb now," she said....
Over Halloween weekend, Dede Scozzafava morphed from a rosy-cheeked Republican mom to a political figure of speech. "My name's a verb now," she said....
Tom Sullivan | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
Conservatives have resurrected "socialist" to smear anyone to the left of Genghis Khan as anti-American or a heretic.
Shannyn Moore | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
The only thing Sarah Palin can really take credit for is New York's House District 23 electing a Democrat for the first time since before The Civil War.
Michael Sigman | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media
In the U.S. any child can grow up to become president. But with our new 24/7 cable/Internet news culture, it's more fun to explain why you're not running for President.
Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker") | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
Will the moderate Republicans only be able to win back their district from the Teabaggers by electing a Democrat for the first time since the mid-19th century? These are strange times indeed.
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama's most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the ...
Jennifer Donahue | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
Then, as now, the economy was coming out of recession. Then, as now, the housing market and job losses were hurting many Americans.
Bill Goold | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
The resurgent progressive movement needs to think more long-term, come together quickly, and systematically build a Progressive Legislative Exchange to share the best ideas.
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
Phase III: Obama Strikes Back. The Republicans are still leaderless and teabaggers have hung up their Lipton for the winter. Meanwhile, two-thirds of Americans still want health care reform.
Julie Farby | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
In the vast wasteland that is the 2012 GOP presidential landscape, fresh-faced stars join seasoned statesman to create a powerful right-wing juggernau...
Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
When Lisa Miller found out that former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich would be signing books on Saturday in McLean, Va., she hauled out her video cam...
Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Gingrich is an attention whore. Whenever he's not getting enough attention, he floats the "I may run for president" bullshit, knowing that the media will lap it up and put him back in the news.
Politics Daily | Patricia Murphy | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker and perennial big thinker in the Republican party, said this morning that he will likely run for president in ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
Twitter is clearly changing the scope of political communication, allowing pols to alter the course of debates in real time -- provided that they can ...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Whatever Obama decides to do in Afghanistan is of little consequence compared to Wall Street's ongoing "plutonomy."
washingtonpost.com | Dan Balz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Three forces threaten Democrats in the 2010 elections: populist anger on the right, disaffection in the middle and potential disillusionment on the le...
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
"There are people who say that money doesn't really matter in public eduction. If it really doesn't matter, then we should equalize the expenditures. If it does matter, we should equalize the expenditures."
Washington City Paper | Dave McKenna | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Allison Vivas once thought she'd be spending Wednesday night in DC with Newt Gingrich. Then he stood her up. Instead of getting mad, Vivas got even. ...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
The only distinguishing feature of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's "National Defending the American Dream Summit" was its astonishing homogeneity both in thought and in demography.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books
Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.
Chris Prevatt | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
But it is one hell of a leap to compare Obama's participation in Chicago's Olympic bid to his health care reform efforts.
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
The cover of Sarah Palin's forthcoming book Going Rogue was made public today. In honor of the inspirational photograph of the ex-governor, here are ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
Newt Gingrich! Does anyone currently walking the face of the earth know more about entrepreneurship? Or about American Solutions For Winning the Fut...
Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
Keith Olbermann named Newt Gingrich "World's Best Person" for revoking two of his Business Defense and Advisory Council Entrepreneur Awards after he d...
The Dallas Morning News | Gromer Jeffers Jr. | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Dawn Rizos didn't need any formal recognition that The Lodge, one of the best-known gentlemen's clubs in Dallas, was a successful small business. But...
Washington Post | Jason Horowitz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics