Short of a goobers like Mike Lee (R-UT), Ron Johnson (R-WI) and multimillionaire criminal Rick Scott (R-FL), even the most reactionary...

-by Helen Klein As an older American citizen who views herself as rational, the horror of the showdown about raising the national debt...

by Noah So now we wait to see how both parties team up to use us and our hard earned money to even it all up. They'll call it a...

What a coincidence! I asked my A.I. buddy a question that doesn’t appear to have been especially welcome: “Which members of the 118th...

Friday night boxed-in Speaker-in-name-only Kevin McCarthy tweeted “President Biden: I accept your invitation to sit down and discuss a...

25% Of All The National Debt Ever Accrued In American History Was Added Under Trump In 1996, the Republicans rammed through a platinum...

Last night, Le Monde reported that over a million people took to the streets to protest the kind of pension “reform” that the Republicans...

The lame, dysfunctional and untrustworthy Democrats should have dealt with the debt limit while they still controlled both chambers of...

Early yesterday, John Bresnahan reported for Punchbowl News that Philadelphia area Democrat Brendan Boyle has been organizing to do...

According to Norm Ornstein, if the Republicans-- he doesn’t call them fascists in print— take over the House, “the country will face a...

Lawrence Lessig's essay for the New York Review this morning, Why the US Is a Failed Democratic State, begins flatly, that a...

We started the day with a look at how Trump continues to poison the Republican Party's midterm efforts. But it's a theme that never stops...

Annapurna Capital Management, LLC is a private equity firm founded by Marshall Brandt, currently serving as a managing partner. I have no...

What could Schumer have imagined would happened when he recruited the chair of the Blue Dogs-- also the member of the House with the...

So the way it stands now, McConnell and Schumer have maneuvered the country into a place where we wake up early Friday morning with "no...

On her show last night, Rachel Maddow explained the genesis of a dysfunctional congressional borrowing situation that began in 1917 when...