See the wide-eyed lunatics running for the Republican party's nomination, muttering blatant lies and contradictions, emanating hypocrisy and hucksterism at every diner, retirement home and whistle stop?
Cristina Page | Posted 12.09.2007 | Politics
The most pro-life thing a president can do is support the right to use contraception and make it widely available.
Washington Post | Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen | Posted 12.09.2007 | Politics
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent t...
Ellis Weiner | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
Dear Ellis: Well, young man, I've got your letter here and, while I normally don't bother sending replies to individual requests (especially at this ...
Washington Post | Robin Wright and Glenn Kessler | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
Senate Republicans are planning to call for a congressional commission to investigate the conclusions of the new National Intelligence Estimate on Ira...
AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
Hispanics are returning to the Democratic Party after several years of drifting toward the Republicans, with many saying Bush administration policies ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
President Bush has been proven wrong in some big and spectacular ways this week. But while he continues to channel his foreign policy advice from Plu...
David Paul Kuhn | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
Was racism part of how Republicans came to dominate four decades of presidential politics? Sure. Was racism the primary factor? No.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Steve Visser | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
It was Rudy Giuliani campaigning for president on the Marietta Square on Sunday afternoon, but anyone listening may well have thought the candidate's ...
Taylor Marsh | Posted 11.29.2007 | Politics
It's John Kerry revisited, the religious version.
Think Progress | Posted 11.29.2007 | Politics
Yesterday in an address to the Council on Foreign Relations, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) stepped up his rhetoric against the Bush administration, calling ...
Jacob Soboroff | Posted 11.28.2007 | Home
Just caught up with Anderson Cooper who was chilling next to the CNN Election Express before tonight's CNN/YouTube debate.
AP | Deanna Bellandi | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who made a farewell speech to House colleagues 11 day earlier, made his resignation official Monday with a letter...
ABC News | Posted 11.24.2007 | Politics
ABC News' Christine Byun reports: GOP hopeful Fred Thompson criticized former Gov. Mitt Romney's abortion record during a campaign stop in South Carol...
CNN | Posted 11.24.2007 | Politics
Following his "Ask Mitt Anything" event in Amherst, Mitt Romney told voters and reporters that presidential candidates should refrain from discussing ...
AP | MIKE GLOVER | Posted 11.21.2007 | Politics
Last summer, Huckabee stunned many with a second-place showing in a big Republican straw poll, and surveys suggest he's made continuing gains in Iowa ...
New York Times | JENNIFER STEINHAUER | Posted 11.21.2007 | Politics
The chairman of a committee formed to fight a ballot initiative to change how California's electoral college votes are apportioned has asked the city ...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.19.2007 | Media
What's interesting about these two columns, juxtaposed, is how emblematic they are of their sides.
Michael Fauntroy | Posted 11.18.2007 | Politics
In arguing that the Dems were racist and that the GOP has been miscast by the liberal media as the enemy of Black people, Emancipation, Revelation, and Revolution completely overlooks the role of ideology in policymaking.
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an...
AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
Republican John McCain is asking the New Hampshire attorney general to investigate phone calls to voters that pretend to be polls but raise questions ...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
The Senate on Friday blocked a Republican proposal to pay $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan without strings attached. The 53-45 vote ...
Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics
Reuters reports this afternoon: Democrats who lead Congress likened President George W. Bush on Thursday to a bully on Iraq war policy and vowed to s...
Dan Agin | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics
In politics, we don't remember enough. We forget how much of American political history is a history of con-men selling us "snake oil."
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics
House Democratic leaders were hard at work on Wednesday to round up the votes in favor of a $50 billion "bridge fund" that would require the president...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
Major news organizations are drawing...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
John McCain's famously cozy relationship with the press is getting a bit testy. Taking questions in...
** Update below: Nas delivers Fox petition to Stephen...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
A chimp in Japan escaped the sweltering confines of his cage, and a zookeeper with a tranquilizer gun...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
Steven Weber | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics