Democrats have thoroughly enjoyed the past few days of the presidential campaign, and with good reason. Mitt Romney’s camp has been on the defensive, responding to President Obama’s attacks with confusing and even goofy …
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Political Pictures of the Week, July 7-13
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Q&A: Ralph Nader on The Green Party, Obama and Romney
Ralph Nader returned a phone call today to give TIME a statement on current Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, whom we wrote about yesterday:
“Jill Stein will ably carry forward the green banner of majoritarian
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The Green Team: Jill Stein’s Third-Party Bid to Shake Up 2012
Wednesday morning at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein spoke to about a dozen people–and a couple dozen empty chairs. She had gone to the capital, in advance of the Green …
Hobgoblin Alert: Behind Barack Obama’s False Abortion Ad
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” –H.L. Mencken
If you live in a swing state, your nation sends its apologies. Perhaps you can just break your television. No grown man or woman should be subjected …
Obama’s Tax Stance: Averting a Class War Within the Democratic Party
President Obama said Monday that he wants Congress to immediately pass an extension of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts for families’ first $250,000 in income. Republicans won’t do this unless Obama agrees to extend the tax cuts …
Romney’s Big Fundraising Month and the Culture of Political Giving
Mitt Romney had a banner month in June. His campaign and the Republican National Committee raised $106 million, marking a large post-primary consolidation of Republican funds, and a full $35 million more than President Obama and …
The Future of the Affordable Care Act: Uncertain, At Best
There are two health care-related sideshows playing out in Washington. One is a semantic argument about whether the fine for not having health insurance under Obamacare is a “penalty,” as the law’s author’s originally …
Political Pictures of the Week, June 30-July 6
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Barack Obama’s Occupy Wall Street Anthem
The campaign-rally soundtrack is typically as stale as one of those radio stations that promises the hits from each decade. More often than not, the opening bars of U2′s “City of Blinding Lights” welcomes Barack Obama to the stage, despite its ironic lyrics “The more you see, the less you know/ The less you find out as you go.” …
Campaign Notebook: The President, the Press and the Peach
Port Clinton, Ohio
Just a few miles from Lake Erie, Bergman Orchards is a roadside storefront with the slogan “Acres and acres of farm fresh fruits and vegetables” painted on an inside wall. The side of the building says …
Why Romney Probably Won’t Harp on Health Care
After much bluster from Republicans last week about how the Supreme Court‘s Obamacare decision would be a 2012 election game-changer, it’s starting to look as though the Romney campaign won’t, in fact, make Obamacare a central …
Decision 2012: Battle of the Health Care Contortionists
Both major party candidates running for President, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, say America faces a clear choice in November. But good luck figuring out all the fine print, especially when it comes to their positions on health …
