Month: January 2011

Obama is remaking his administration, as is detailed in John Heilemann’s big piece in New York magazine. Judging the ultimate political impact of this endeavor will be impossible until November 2012. But contrary to the...

. Sunday morning, the Guardian and Al Jazeera began to serve the world a fresh batch of WikiLeaks. This time the material, while wide ranging and covering nearly a decade, was not random. This time the document dump encompasses...

Bob Cusack has seven reasons why the Republicans will have a hard time beating Obama in 2012. I think his explanations are generally accurate, but they’re a little bit shallow. Let’s take them in turn. 1. Incumbents...

Before you read the following, I want you to remember that the man who makes the statement that I’m going to quote is a United States Senator. You might find it hard to believe that he could have achieved such high status...

Assuming that there isn’t significant filibuster reform, it seems to me like it’s inevitable that there will be some kind of government shutdown. The Senate’s top Republican, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said on...