Two stories dominated the news this past week - the passing of Elizabeth Edwards and the agreement between the President and Congressional leaders to ...
Two stories dominated the news this past week - the passing of Elizabeth Edwards and the agreement between the President and Congressional leaders to ...
My apologies to anyone tuning in who was expecting to see the 150th "Friday Talking Points" column, since it will be pre-empted for two weeks here. B...
Howard Fineman appeared on Keith Olbermann Thursday to discuss the GOP's newfound opposition to the "omnibus" spending bill, which contains millions o...
You'd better sit still, You'd better not flee, You'd better just chill -- Don't shoot the TV! Bristol Palin's dancing with stars... She's missing t...
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Ev'rywhere you go; Take a look in Tiffany's store, glistening once again With Wall Street bonus trinkets a...
In step with the citizens of Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain, Americans continue to demand public officials deliver services without imposing an appropriate surcharge. Our shameful sense of entitlement is poised to end our dalliance with democracy.
The middle would be much happier if we'd stop negotiating and start making their lives better. But in absence of a coherent plan by a unified government, their vote just seems like flailing.
Tea Party enthusiasts in Massachusetts are falling off the right side of the wharf. A recent event featured a bevy of well-known aggress...
While we are indeed currently politically divided and somewhat polarized, this is actually our normal state as a nation -- and on the polarization scale, we're nowhere near the "most divided" we've ever been. Far from it.
It is painfully obvious that the national gay leaders have promoted their own partisan agendas and careers within the Democratic Party instead of working to ensure passage of civil rights.
The immigration debate is not about law, not about fairness, not about justice. It's about race. Plain and simple. It's about the fear of more brown people coming into our society, our culture.
Barack Obama understands the evils of Reaganism even better than Bill Clinton. He also knows what ought to be done and what he, as President, must do to get it done. Shame on him, therefore, all the more.
Tea Party acolytes had among their core message two principles: First, Congress should move quickly to end out of control deficit spending. Second, Congress should stop lying to the American people. Well, so much for that election.
Though undoubtedly campaigning in 2008 with the noblest of intentions, it is looking increasingly likely that Barack Obama will enter the history books as not only a one-term president, but also a valiant but deeply flawed failure.
Very few subjects stir interest like negative campaigns; voters dislike them; political consultants adore them; and political scientists scrutinize them. Two contradictory points are evident.
When this Obama victory becomes clear, it is likely that most Democrats in Congress and around the country will realize that Obama has regained his mojo and outfoxed the Republicans at their own game.
Preckwinkle plans to move Cook County government from a culture of corruption to a "culture of performance management" and hire a performance czar to enforce the new culture.
Obama does not understand the game of corporate billionaires versus the working class that Republicans have played for decades -- that or he willingly capitulates to it.
In an extemporaneous conversation with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Soros mentioned George Orwell's novel, 1984, as a possible precedent for the kind of fantasies being promulgated in our culture today.
From health care to finance, and from marketing to government, the use of game dynamics in non-game contexts will transform how we interact, self-express and consume -- for the better.