When America’s corporate titans shift their weight, the tremors travel fast. Last week, Coca-Cola, Kraft and accounting-software giant Intuit announced they were ending their membership in a conservative nonprofit group called …
March’s unemployment numbers were mediocre enough to be open to any number of interpretations. Republicans see evidence that the President’s policies have taken us off track. Obama just called it another bump in the road. Here are two reasons to despair and two reasons to celebrate about the latest data:
Even if they can get a little preachy, I’m not one easily bothered by politicians critiquing the media. We write about them all the time–sometimes preachily–and as the principles in a whole bunch of news stories, their perspectives are worth something. But just as when pundits mouth off about politics, it would help press-critic …
Today, President Obama gave a speech bashing Republicans’ Paul Ryan budget, which would balance the federal books over 20 years by deeply cutting discretionary spending and rejiggering federal entitlements to shift rising health …
“I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” President Obama said …
In the run up to Florida’s Republican primary, a lot of pixels were spilled on Newt Gingrich’s lunar flight of fancy, a proposal to permanently colonize the moon by 2020. Even with the poor state of federal balance sheets, this …
It’s 50°F and sunny in Wisconsin, according to the local forecast. The cold days are almost done, and so too is the Republican primary. In the week leading up to Tuesday’s nominating contest in the state, one of the few standing …
That seems to be the trend among the latest round of Establishment Republicans to back Romney. “I do think it’s time for the party to get behind Gov. Romney,” George H.W. Bush said. His son Jeb used the same words: “It is time to get behind the nominee.” In multiple interviews, Marco Rubio has riffed along the same lines, with a …
Writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, Walter Shapiro makes a compelling case that the political press has arbitrarily soured on Rick Santorum’s chance at the nomination in the last few weeks. While Santorum trails badly, …
As Crowley points out, Mitt Romney was pretty well-poised to seize on Obama’s open mic moment, in which he told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he’d have “more flexibility” on missile defense after his re-election. Romney dug in on the issue Monday, hammering the White House on the stump and calling Russia “without question our …
Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve have been taking some big leaps in recent months: policy prescriptions tied to explicit dates, dire warnings to Congress, open press conferences, college lectures and even a Twitter feed. So while it’s still natural to expect characteristic caution from the Fed chairman, it’s not impossible to imagine …
Americans may be more religious than their peers in other Western countries, but they have their limits when it comes to mixing religion and public life. According to a new survey conducted by Pew, a 38% plurality of Americans …
It’s almost over. That was the message from Illinois on Tuesday night, where Mitt Romney scored another commanding primary victory, outpacing his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination again and padding a delegate lead …
