Yesterday Mitt Romney blasted Barack Obama via a Washington Post op-ed denouncing Obama’s nuclear Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia as the president’s “worst foreign policy mistake yet.” Romney complains that the Russians “badly out-negotiated” Obama and came out with a decided strategic advantage in the treaty, including the power to walk away from [...]
Our colleague Elizabeth Dias files this dispatch: Washington’s 102-degree heat is nothing new for the Arizona activists wrapping up a 24-hour prayer vigil at the White House. For 79 straight days—ever since SB1070 passed in April—several hundred faith and community leaders have knelt on the Arizona Capitol’s sweltering steps, praying for deliverance from Arizona’s looming [...]
The Administration announced last night that it would use a recess appointment to get Donald Berwick in place as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Recess appointments are controversial and this is no exception. Republicans are downright angry that the White House, apparently without much warning, decided to circumvent Congress [...]
Last week, Ben Smith noticed Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Cox had a TV ad bearing a striking resemblance to this commercial for a pickup truck. You might shrug it off as coincidence or an isolated appeal to the Motor City crowd. But now it’s cropping up again, this time in Nevada. Rory Reid, the [...]
I was going to respond to Mitt Romney’s aggressively chuckleheaded attack on the new START treaty yesterday, but John Kerry has done it for me. Romney’s foreign policy pronouncements are always painful, since he knows less-than-zero about the subject and, so far as I can tell, hasn’t made much of a first-hand effort to learn [...]
It’s hard to believe that a year ago I was watching a photographer shoot Sarah Palin on her dock in front of her Wasilla home for our cover story on her. And given the weather today — it’s 100+ degrees in Washington — a pleasant Alaska summer is looking pretty nice right now. TIME’s Feifei [...]
A little while back, a reader asked me, “what is in the [financial reform] bill that affects us little people?” I gave only a very cursory answer, but the first item on my list was the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. By overseeing the loans and financial products companies sell to individual consumers, the CFPB has [...]
You couldn’t have made this up: Up to four would-be tycoons can compete at exploring for oil, building platforms and laying pipelines to their home countries. But BP Offshore Oil Strike players must also avoid the dreaded ‘hazard cards’, which state: ‘Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1million.’ Unhappily for BP, that is [...]
As the Obama Administration continues to push Congress on comprehensive immigration reform, the Department of Justice is expected to file a lawsuit today against Arizona’s controversial new immigration law. The border state’s new law, scheduled to go into effect later this month, allows local law enforcement to question a person’s immigration status if there is [...]
