Remember how it was Republicans’ obsessive focus on social issues that was going to doom the party? Between 2008 and well into the aftermath of the party’s 2012 defeat, the culprit behind the part...
Feelings of moral superiority are expensive luxuries in politics. It feels so good to denounce and despise, right up until the moment you have to start making concessions. And that’s where...
President Obama wants you to buy health insurance. Like, a lot.
It is a strange political moment indeed. Democrats are cheering on a debate between Republicans over the best way to sink President Obama’s health law.
In President Obama’s first fiscal negotiations with Republicans after the GOP won the House in 2010, he called his adversaries “hostage takers.” Now, he simply says they are extortionists.
What mania could have compelled the president to take partisan swipes and accuse Republicans of being unpatriotic while police were in the middle of a manhunt after a mass shooting at a naval base...
John Kerry can finally say he knows how Richard Nixon felt.
The stated reason for bombing Syria is to make good on President Obama’s word and protect American credibility overseas. Too late.
The cost of President Obama’s proposed air war against Syrian government forces could quickly run into the tens of billions of dollars. Not enormous for a government that spends more than $700...
What happens when American military action has neither public support nor congressional approval? Looks like we're getting ready to find out.
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