By Joan Biskupic, Reuters
The last time the U.S. Supreme Court heard a major campaign finance dispute, then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan stood at the lectern making the government’s case to the justices. On Tuesday she was on the bench, nearly … Read more »
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog
An old friend who has been active in politics for more than thirty years tells me he’s giving up. “I can’t stomach what’s going on in Washington anymore,” he says. “The hell with all … Read more »
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and MIKE McINTIRE
WASHINGTON — Shortly after President Obama started his second term, a loose-knit coalition of conservative activists led by former Attorney General Edwin Meese III gathered in the capital to plot strategy. Their push … Read more »
Welcome to Ted Cruz¹s Thunderdome by Maureen Dowd, NY Times, 10/6/13
A PLACE ONCE CALLED WASHINGTON
AN ape sits where Abe sat.
The year is 2084, in the capital of the land formerly called North America.
The peeling columns of … Read more »
By Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian UK
Fracking in America generated 280bn US gallons of toxic waste water last year – enough to flood all of Washington DC beneath a 22ft deep toxic lagoon, a new report out on Thursday found.
The … Read more »
By Jessica Goad, ThinkProgress
The U.S. government remains shut down, thanks to House Republicans’ refusal to fund the government without defunding the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, 401 national parks across the country are closed to tourists and vacationers, provoking “pretty … Read more »
By Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News
I start my approach to health care from two very basic premises. First, health care must be recognized as a right, not a privilege. Every man, woman and child in our country should be … Read more »
By Charles Pierce, Esquire
Only the truly child-like can have expected anything else.
In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses … Read more »
‘We are entering an unknown territory of marine ecosystem change,’ warns report. ‘The next mass extinction may have already begun.’- Jon Queally, staff writer
The news, the evidence that supports it, and the warning that accompanies it could hardly be … Read more »
By Paul Krugman
Lydia DePillis continues her informative series of blog posts on the political haplessness of big business, which with all its money and connections finds itself not only unable to stop the slide into chaos but unable even … Read more »
