Month: April 2013

It turns out that cowering before the NRA’s Board of Directors is not a wise political move. Public Policy Polling is finding substantial erosion in the approval rating of several senators who opposed universal background...

Massachusetts voters go to the polls tomorrow to select the nominees to replace John Kerry in the U.S. Senate. When Rep. Stephen Lynch voted against ObamaCare, he was presumably thinking that some big-money boys would reward him...

Paul Krugman is arguably becoming not just the most influential economic commentator on the planet, but also one of the more influential political commentators. That’s partly because it’s hard to gainsay the economic...

What? Afghanistan doesn’t have direct deposit? A bank account in Cyprus won’t do? While intelligence agencies often pay foreign officials to provide information, dropping off bags of cash at a foreign leader’s office...

Hmm. [NAACP President Ben] Jealous says the 2014 midterm election will be the real bellwether for black turnout. “Black turnout set records this year despite record attempts to suppress the black vote,” he said. I think he meant...