

Ron Paul Won’t Be The Nominee, Much Less President
Ron Paul is surging in Iowa. He’s in 3rd place in the national polls and has been for most of the race. He’s not Mitt Romney.
Ron Paul is surging in Iowa. He’s in 3rd place in the national polls and has been for most of the race. He’s not Mitt Romney.
Do American courts throw people in jail for failing to pay their debts? No, they don’t.
Don’t believe the fear mongering about the coming decreases in the growth of defense spending.
Mitt Romney’s first television ad is built around a Barack Obama quote that has been cropped so that he’s saying the opposite of what he actually said.
Will we wind up with a backdoor mandate? Or a single payer system?
As the season changes, the Occupy Wall Street movement seems destined to peter out.
The prospects for real economic recovery are not good.
Are the worries about China overtaking the United States realistic?
The first two months of Rick Perry’s campaign are a good example of why it helps to start a Presidential campaign early.
Rick Perry’s immigration positions aren’t at all unreasonable, and that presents a problem for him inside the Republican Party.
It turns out DOJ didn’t have $16 muffins after all–they were just charged $16 for each muffin.
Making sure millionaires pay more tax than their secretary isn’t as easy as it sounds.
Bill O’Reilly makes a convincing argument for raising taxes on the wealthy.
Allocating Electoral Votes by Congressional District is an idea whose time has come.
Republicans have a plan to wrest half of the Keystone State’s electors from Obama.
Whether it’s a “Ponzi Scheme” or not, Social Security has serious systemic problems that must be addressed.
Did World War II teach us anything about spending-as-stimulus? Not really.
Matthew Yglesias resurrects an argument that should have died off when Napster disappeared.
Political journalists aren’t like you and me. Well, you, anyway.
The immediate reaction among the political class to the debt downgrade was the play the same old stupid games.
Michael Cohen argues that our system is broken because Republicans will no longer compromise.
Some things are worth repeating.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has proposed a simple deal to break the impasse on the debt ceiling: Cede power to raise the ceiling to the president, with a few minor caveats.
Georgia Congressman Paul Broun has a radical suggestion: While we’re playing chicken with the nation’s debt, let’s cut $1.3 trillion from the debt ceiling!
I have been only peripherally aware of the trial–and then only in the way that I’m aware of Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and reality TV.
There’s precedent for this sort of thing happening and the candidate making the comeback. And you don’t have to go back too far.
Wall Street says raise the debt ceiling. The Tea Party says no. What will the GOP do?
Modern life requires us to put a high degree of trust in those to whom we delegate responsibility
The ability of people to put aside rational judgment when it comes to political figures is, in a word, puzzling.
President Obama has pledged no slaughter and no ground troops for Libya. He may well be forced to pick one.
Paul Krugman admits that he doesn’t bother to read conservative commentary. Should he?
Being unemployed, especially in the long term, makes it less likely to get hired.
Al Jazeera English is kicking the butts of the American news networks on the Egypt story. Why?
The post-Sputnik innovation wave was sparked by government investment, not the entrepreneurial spirit.
Julian Assange is a loathsome human being. Is he also a rapist? Under Swedish law, maybe.
The unemployed are predominately poorly educated non-voters. Some argue that they are therefore getting far too little attention from the political class.