Lance Selfa The Republican primaries are getting underway--in a race in which the candidates have gone out of their way to take the most extreme right-wing positions.
January 3, 2012 The resounding defeats of an Ohio anti-union law and Mississippi anti-abortion measure were signs of a new political mood shaped by Occupy.
November 15, 2011 The "real" Barack Obama is the one who wants cuts in the social safety net--and the "class warrior" is a costume he dons for election campaigns.
September 26, 2011 The deal on the debt ceiling accomplished the opposite of what most Americans want, according to polls. Why is a vocal minority dominating mainstream politics?
August 25, 2011 An ever-widening scandal is engulfing the empire of billionaire Rupert Murdoch--one of the vilest entitles ever to pollute the media landscape.
July 19, 2011 A new book systematically dismantles the idea that the Tea Party represents a genuine independent political movement.
June 16, 2011 Why are the savage crackdowns against democracy movements in Libya and Syria getting support from Venezuela's Hugo Chávez?
May 17, 2011 Organized labor's commitment to the Democrats has come at a steep cost to the unions' ability to advance even basic working-class politics.
March 17, 2011 Get ready for talk of a federal government shutdown because of differences over the budget to drag on for weeks.
March 2, 2011 It's no coincidence that media praise for Barack Obama's recent performance coincides with a White House charm offensive toward big business.
January 25, 2011 Corporate America is praising William Daley as a White House chief of staff who will "understand us." But it's hard to see how he's much of a change.
January 11, 2011 Barack Obama's deficit commission issued a report recommending unprecedented austerity measures that will serve as a model for future budget proposals.
December 7, 2010 The media's conventional wisdom is that the results of Election 2010 represent vast public support for the Tea Party's right-wing message. They got it wrong.
November 8, 2010 The emergence of the Tea Partiers and the looming GOP victory in November has led to a revival of the idea that the U.S. population is basically conservative.
September 7, 2010 The Democrats can expect a beating in the November congressional elections--and they have only themselves to blame for it.
August 9, 2010 Conservatives shouldn't bank on the Tea Party corralling another generation of support for pro-business policies like the New Right of the 1970s did.
April 27, 2010 Depending on who's talking, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is either a "saboteur" undercutting Barack Obama's liberalism or a voice of realism.
March 24, 2010 In contrast to the sense of hope about Obama a year ago, political momentum is with conservatives today. But does this mean that America is turning right?
March 2, 2010 The tea partiers celebrated their "movement" at a convention in Nashville, but is this really a sign that the right wing is on the ascendancy?
February 9, 2010 Last year, the Democrats were celebrating the biggest governing majority in a generation. This year, they're worried about getting crushed in the next election.
January 29, 2010 Republican Scott Brown--who vows to be the "41st vote" to defeat health care legislation--beat a panicked Democratic Party in liberal Massachusetts.
January 20, 2010 The chorus of liberal opinion selling pro-corporate health care legislation as an acceptable compromise with political "realism" is growing louder.
January 11, 2010 With Barack Obama's popularity falling and some initiatives stalled, many people are asking a question that seemed impossible a few months ago.
December 4, 2009 There are two wrong interpretations of the November 3 election results circulating in the political establishment and among its chatterers.
November 6, 2009 The insurance companies are attacking health care legislation, but their recently issued report shows how they will try to profit off reform.
October 22, 2009
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