Month: November 2014

Congressional Republicans have apparently decided that a (previously) bipartisan package of tax breaks making its way through the lame-duck session will be the (first?) vehicle for venting their rage at President Obama’s...

So we know that the Michael Brown/Darren Wilson grand jury made its decision by midday; yet the verdict wasn’t announced till well after dark, a time when crowd control is more difficult, after hours of breathless media...

In the November/December issue of the Washington Monthly, Kelly McEvers has a review of Laura Kasinof’s new book: Don’t Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen. McEvers was stationed in...

Dr. Grist explains our problems in 36 tweets. It looks like we will not have our first female Secretary of Defense, as Michele Flournoy has taken herself out of the running for the post. The White House doesn’t seem happy...

I frequently lose patience with Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York. Perhaps his comments wouldn’t look so bad in their full context but he sounds like he values middle class voters more than the underclass and the medically...