Since its passage (and even before), Republicans have cast President Obama’s health-care reform law as an unconstitutional power grab that trampled Americans’ liberty by requiring them to purchase insurance or pay a penalty. …
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Arizona Ruling Deepens Romney’s Immigration Muddle
A funny thing happened after the Supreme Court handed down a split decision on Arizona’s controversial immigration law. All the key players won — even the ones who lost. Politics is a festival of spin on a typical day, and its …
Political Pictures of the Week, June 15-22
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Obama vs. Romney on Immigration
From the “no core” division of the Obama campaign’s messaging operation comes this new Web video, essentially a compendium of news reporters carping about Mitt Romney’s evasiveness on immigration policy:
Commerce Secretary John Bryson Resigns
Updated, 11:55 a.m.
Less than two weeks after taking medical leave in the wake of multiple car accidents, U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson has resigned. Bryson sent a letter informing President Obama of his resignation …
Will the Supreme Court Consider a Campaign-Finance Mulligan?
The Affordable Care Act isn’t the only consequential law whose fate the U.S. Supreme Court holds in its hands. Before the end of the month, the court is also expected to decide whether to hear a Montana campaign-finance case that …
Romney’s Dream Act Response Highlights Political Peril
Mitt Romney faced a Catch-22 in President Barack Obama’s high-profile roll-out of a regulatory version of the Dream Act last Friday. The presumptive GOP presidential candidate crafted a careful response, but not a particularly …
Political Pictures of the Week, June 9-15
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
The Twitter Campaign
President Obama doesn’t think much of the campaign his opponent is running. “You can pretty much put their campaign on a tweet and have some characters to spare,” Obama told the crowd at a Tuesday fundraiser. It was a fitting salvo for a presidential election that resembles nothing right now so much as an Internet flame war. And so …
Political Pictures of the Week, June 1-8
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Political Pictures of the Week, May 25-June 1
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Ed Rendell’s 2005 ‘Kiss of Death’ Endorsement of Mitt Romney
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell weighed in Monday on the Obama campaign’s Bain Capital attacks and, alas, another would-be Obama surrogate bit the dust. “I think they’re very disappointing,” Rendell told Buzzfeed about the negative ads by Chicago. “I think Bain is fair game, because Romney has made it fair game. But I think how you …
Political Pictures of the Week, May 11-18
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
