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By an act against self-interest, or by voluntary retirement from office, or by simply taking the long-term national interest into account, an elected official may suddenly become a public servant.
Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
For an average citizen it is hard to sift through the lies and the posturing of D.C. to figure out what's true or false.
Barton Kunstler, Ph.D. | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Why are Republicans and Blue Dogs playing political tricks just to defend insurance companies and peddling a perverted version of an America where the government aiding its citizens is treated like an act of treason?
Jerry Chautin | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business
These banks are not able to resume normal lending operations because they are not willing to dispose of their toxic assets at the current market values.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media
The media is not completely responsible for the state of the debate over healthcare reform. The Democrats have done such a poor job of presenting their case that they really bear the lion's share of blame.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
Voters are not like policy wonks. Only when they get really riled up do they send their message -- loud and clear -- to public officials. Hence the growing public debate over reform.
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
We need time to give the Recovery plan a chance to work. Allow us to heal before tackling such a complex issue as health care. There's time for that later.
Christina Patterson | Posted 08.12.2009 | Business
Politicians basically agree with the bankers. They think that the most highly educated people in our society are the ones most likely to operate on a base level of animal greed.
Politico | Anne Schroeder Mullins | Posted 08.07.2009 | Style
Several weeks ago, Republican image consultant Brian Kirwin received a curious request from a state elected official. The official had always wanted t...
Diane Tucker | Posted 08.22.2009 | Style
"It was innocent," insisted Mark Sanford, while recollecting his first encounter with Maria Belen Chapur on an Uruguayan dance floor. Oh, really?
Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 08.02.2009 | Style
When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broke her elbow outside the White House on June 18th, her injury put her in good company: Supreme Court Justic...
nytimes.com | Benedict Carey and Tara Parker-Pope | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living
They're done. Toast. The governor needs his head checked. His wife needs to launch his clothes from the bedroom window. Time for those two to get in l...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.30.2009 | Style
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has found himself under public scrutiny for his alleged affair with 18-year-old model Noemi Letizia. However,...
Abby L. Ferber | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
The fact that these conservative politicians and commentators don't even see racism unless they feel it is directed against them is precisely why we need the voices of women of color on the court.
Emily Bracken | Posted 04.29.2009 | Comedy
Humorists and comedians are a curious bunch. Quixotic by nature, they want so desperately to live in a world of decency, fairness and goodness, and in Stewart's case, in a world where the media grew some cajones.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
Time after time, Bush, Obama and Congress had an opportunity to attach limits on executive pay to legislation authorizing bailout money. And time after time, they refused. So, spare me the outrage.
Matt Stewart | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
It's essential to draw a distinction between rigidly opposing a terrible idea and opposing good one. The Iraq War is a terrible idea based on a lie. By turn, the stimulus package is a pretty good one.
Daniel Zingale | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
The un-written rules long dictated that first ladies stand by, stand behind, and, at best, stand-in for their elected spouse.
Libby Mitchell | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Every time I wrote "Mr. Bush" for an anchor to read on air, I would grit my teeth and count down the days until January 20th, 2009. Now, that day is here.
Margo Hammond and Ellen Heltzel | Posted 02.16.2009 | Style
For Jeb Bush: "They fuck you up, your mum and dad./They may not mean to, but they do./They fill you with the faults they had/And add some extra, just for you."
Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
To those who are already planning for the 2012 elections: if challenged by a reporter to back up your claims, simply say, "The issue isn't about facts. It's about starting a necessary discussion."
Climate Progress | Jeff Goodell | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green
The themes of James Hansen's recent talk at American Geophysical Union's fall meeting were not new to anyone who has heard him speak recently (or to r...
Bob Franken | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
It's probably not altogether fair, but there are certain words, when we see them together, that automatically inspire scorn and/or ridicule in just ab...
Bob Franken | Posted 01.13.2009 | Business
I don't really understand why we're paying so much attention to Bernard Madoff. As we're discovering, almost the entire economy is the moral equivalent of a Ponzi scheme.
AP | STEVE QUINN and JUSTIN PRITCHARD | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics
JUNEAU, Alaska — Sarah Palin felt so strongly about the public corruption indictment of a Republican state senator this summer that she urged hi...
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Gary Hart | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics