–Rick Perry’s reaction to whoops of assent from the audience at Monday night’s debate when one candidate was asked if a 30-year-old patient without health insurance should be allowed to die.
The Census Bureau’s Tuesday report that nearly 46.2 million Americans — one in six citizens — live in poverty shouldn’t be entirely surprising given that economic conditions have continued to worsen in the more than two years since the Great Recession officially ended.
Last night’s GOP presidential debate and the Eurozone financial crisis may seem like the most important issues of the moment, but the biggest news yesterday may have come, barely noticed, on the diplomatic front.
Michael Scherer does a nifty job of recapping last night’s debate. A few miscellaneous musings of my own: -How many Republicans tuned in to catch their first glimpse of frontrunner Rick Perry and were stunned by his faltering performance? Hailed for his swagger and brio, the Texas governor was bloodied by a flurry of jabs [...]
Back in May, Democrats pulled off an upset in a special election in Western New York, snatching a House seat in a Republican stronghold. On Tuesday the GOP appears ready to exact its revenge. Republican Bob Turner, a retired television executive, holds an edge over Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin in the special election to replace [...]
The full text of Obama’s American Jobs Act. His payfors are taxes on the rich. Despite David Axelrod’s admonition that “It’s not an a la cart menu,” Obama says he’d sign a partial bill.
TIME recaps every absurd minute of the GOP's prime-time food fight on CNN.
Firmly entrenched as the double-digit front-runner for the Republican President nomination, Texas Governor Rick Perry endured the unpleasant privilege of his status on Monday night.
Laredo, Texas “Are you here for the convention,” the woman with pink and bronze hair asked me at the hotel in San Antonio. “No,” I replied, “Which convention?” “The hairdressers’ convention.” “Do I look like a hairdresser?” I asked.
