Month: August 2010

I didn’t see this coming. Joe Sestak, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, has picked up the endorsement of Chuck Hagel: Hagel told The Associated Press on Monday that Sestak has demonstrated during his...

Chris Cillizza discusses a couple of reasons to be optimistic that 2010 will not be a repeat of 1994. Although few savvy Democratic strategists debate the difficulty of the national political environment, they do note that there...

For once, I have to disagree with Steve Benen. There are certain instances where a president actually moves the country onto a long-term trajectory in a left or rightward direction. When Franklin Roosevelt created the SEC, FDIC,...

The Mustache of Understanding: The reason the Iraq war was, is and will remain important is that it created the first chance for Arab Sunnis and Shiites to do something they have never done in modern history: surprise us and...