Month: January 2013

If this the best they can do, the Republicans ought to pick up their ball and go home. In agreeing to extend the debt ceiling for three months without any corresponding spending cuts, the GOP is finally acknowledging that the...

Steve Benen persuasively argues that the Republicans now believe that they cannot get anything worth having out of threatening the full faith and credit of the United States again, and they will give us a clean bill on the debt...

John Fund is trying to revive the outrage that surrounded the 2009 Department of Homeland Security report on right-wing extremists. Remember, the right won that battle, probably to the detriment of the public’s safety....

See if you can spot the problem with where the Republicans chose to hold a conference in which improving their outreach to African American voters and other minorities is one of the prominent topics they will discuss: After its...

. Algeria hostage crisis ‘ongoing’, says Foreign Office – live updates … more than 600 Algerian hostages freed, still several dozen foreign employees unaccounted for. PM Cameron statement in British...