Our leaders routinely use language to manipulate meaning. They misuse words to confuse, obfuscate and distort. It's as if their goal in life is to help themselves politically. They'll help the country when they can find the time.
Our leaders routinely use language to manipulate meaning. They misuse words to confuse, obfuscate and distort. It's as if their goal in life is to help themselves politically. They'll help the country when they can find the time.
Voters across the country have buyers' remorse about the Republicans they elected to office. The big stands House Republicans have taken so far--defun...
Democrats needed 25 House seats to send John Boehner and the Republicans back to the minority. Now it's 24. Turns out, engaging in a cradle to grave assault on American women is not a compelling electoral strategy
It's hard to deny that Democrats are feeling good about yesterday's election victory up in Buffalo. There's a certain wind-in-our-sails feeling about the whole strategy of hammering Republicans on the Ryan plan to voucherize Medicare.
Is there a place in mainstream American political life for young blacks, whose political views don't always fall within traditional mainstream conservative/liberal lines?
All the fast cutaways and lens flares can't hide the fact that this video still feels utterly artificial. Big bucks were no doubt spent to make 2012's most uninteresting candidate seem like a protagonist in a Spielberg epic.
Should Mitt Romney, as is increasingly likely, win the GOP presidential nomination, it will be a severe defeat for the Tea Party faction of the party.
Repeating the word "truth" 16 times in his first official campaign speech, Tim Pawlenty assured voters that he would bring a healthy dose of honesty to the conversation.
At this point, there are only a few holdouts left on the sidelines, as most of the bigwigs (and some decidedly "smallwigs") have made their intentions known.
The Gingrich campaign self-immolated out of the gate. A glitter bomb, snarling confrontation with an Iowa voter and epic John Lithgow recitation later, Newt's campaign is already being written off as 2012's Mike Gravel. That is to say, the comic relief.
HuffPost's Howard Fineman appeared Monday on MSNBC's 'The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell' to discuss the field for the 2012 Republican presidential...
Finally my previous posts have become mainstream. Look at what I have written consistently on The Huffington Post and look at what the mainstream pres...
Despite its Congressional victories in the 2010-midterm elections six months ago, the Republican Party finds itself steeped in chaos. But it is far too early to declare Democrats winners in 2012.
It's hard for me to imagine that a majority of American voters would agree that what we really need in the White House is a politician who is so eager to get elected that he'll promise the far-right just about anything.
Gary Johnson is not your typical presidential candidate. He sounds like your typical Republican when he talks about balancing budgets, fiscal constraint and taxes. But he's stronger on social freedom than all but a handful of Democrats.
The tepid support from the right to the current GOP pack should convince Joe Scarborough that the party faithful is waiting for a skilled politician with personality and name-recognition to enter the race.
Now all Americans can breathe a huge sigh of relief because the Centers for Disease Control just posted instructions so we can all adequately prepare for "Zombie Armageddon."
Most people misunderstand Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. They see Hamlet as indecisive, melancholy and afraid to take action. They see...
Mitt Romney is emerging as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. Unless other candidates begin raising money and building an organization, the race for the Republican nomination will be over before it starts.
Gingrich and Romney are taking the heat for being pragmatic and understanding the bigger picture. They need to be on the record saying things that, in a general election, can diffuse criticism of their policies.