Politics

Political handicappers are so intent on trying to quantify Democratic losses in the midterm elections that they are missing the bigger picture: America's radical center is in a permanent state of revolt.

The big question is what impact the midterm election will have on the politics of fiscal evasion. Here's hoping that President Obama will give a close look to fiscal discipline that demands equal sacrifice from the left and the right.

If Republicans want to frame the economic debate as a choice between more tax cuts and rebuilding the common foundations of American prosperity, so much the better. That's one progressives can win.

Although he was too diplomatic to say so, Blair's call for confronting the extremist narrative head-on challenges current U.S. policy.

Under Adrian Fenty and Michelle Rhee, D.C. public schools moved from the cellar of urban education into the vanguard of reform. Will Fenty's loss condemn tens of thousands of children to substandard public schools?

Among foreign policy mandarins here and abroad, it's become axiomatic that America must radically downsize its global ambitions to avoid hubris and to match our straitened economic circumstances. Hillary Clinton is having none of it.

Democrats like to think of themselves as champions of economic fairness for working families. But for decades now, working class voters - especially white ones...

President Obama firmly took charge of the Gulf oil disaster last night. That was something he needed to do. But am I the only one...

As the Senate turns to financial reform this week, the big question is whether any Republicans will join in, or whether the party will stick...

It often seems that Blue Dog Democrats, along with a handful of Senate moderates, are the only people in Washington who are serious about fiscal...

This item is cross-posted at Progressive Fix. There's something poignant about President Obama's attempts to reason with congressional Republicans. He keeps hoping that facts, evidence,...

Bayh's decision to pack it in, after 12 years, is a loss to his party, and even more to his country. Most of all, it's a withering rebuke to Congress, which seems to have lost the knack for governing.