The 90,000 New Yorkers who control 99% of the city's wealth are completely segregated, geographically and intellectually, from everyone else in the city and the nation at large, so it's no surprise that they tend to be tone-deaf and blind to the inequities and frustrations a …
If the Party of Tea, formerly known as the GOP, is so confident of beating Barack Obama why can't it find a decent candidate to stop Mitt Romney and beat the president?
First, growing income inequality is a fact, not a talking point. And Americans are feeling the disparity. This recent poll from the Pew Research Center/Washington Post shows Americans increasingly describe society as divided between "haves" and "have-nots."
Obama has nearly decimated al Qaeda. Why doesn’t he brag about it? Michael Tomasky on liberals’ squeamishness at thumping their chests—and the endless victory lap that Bush would have taken.
People who are "unemployed" in the way Mitt Romney is—who started out wealthy and are now so wealthy they will never have to work again—may not have to worry about things like lower wages or lower chance of having health care or a pension.
We argue everything there is to argue politically here on the vine. Most of us have a real proclivity for taking what someone says and turn it into an opportunity to either expound on your position or redirect the conversation to something completely different.
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Something doesn't pass the smell test. It was just annonced that Wisonsin Governor Scott Walker's Chief of Staff, Keith Gilkes, has resigned to return to his political consulting firm.
Women in one of America’s most liberal neighbourhoods have been left outraged after being told by police not to wear short skirts in case it gets them raped. Those living in Park Slope in Brooklyn, New York, are being warned they could grant a sex attacker ‘easy ac …
At a campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich answered a question from a woman who was concerned that he supported the idea of religion imposing values on Americans. "I'm very concerned that a branch of Christianity has gotte …
America’s experiment as a sort-of democratic republic has lasted for about 235 years, and for the most part, the system has worked relatively well.
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