Senate curbs filibusters in blow against GOP "pirates"
On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Democrats, fed up with endless Republican obstructionism, voted to end filibusters on nearly all presidential nominees.
Government shutdown to crash into debt ceiling crisis?
Way over a million workers are immediately affected by the shutdown. Will they get back pay once the government starts up again? With this Congress, who knows?
GOP strategy: Tune out, turn off, drop out
The antics of GOP Senator Ted Cruz are only the latest example of an effort to pull the political discourse further to the right.
No limit to how ridiculous Republicans can get
How embarrassing it must be to be a Republican today.
IRS scandal - Deja vu all over again
Following years during which they did everything possible to attack the president, congressional Republicans launched an attack on the IRS. The media cheerfully picked up on one-sided tales of IRS abuse.
Obama and the right’s “brave new world”
Political pundits seem to agree that the past couple of weeks haven't been kind to the Obama administration.
Obama speech heralds new era
The preident laid out confidently - at times defiantly - a list of policy choices anathema to Republicans who tried to block every piece of progressive legislation during his first term.
Is the right-wing era over? Not yet
Is the era of right-wing ascendancy over? I would argue that it is a bit premature to reach that conclusion.
Ten of the worst things said in 2012
Sometimes the quotes are bad because they are stupid, sometimes because they are wicked, and sometimes because they are just incomprehensible.
Fiscal cliff or soaring inequality: Which is scarier?
In the early aftermath of World War II, the Truman administration was hell bent on reversing U.S. foreign policy from wartime cooperation to unrestrained hostility.
