George Miller, a top liberal legislator, will call it quits
Democratic Party
Democratic Divide on Social Security Spills Into Streets
On a brisk, sunny Wednesday afternoon a handful of protesters stood outside of 1025 Connecticut Ave NW in Washington, while a boisterous woman led the group’s chants. “What is America going to be?” they asked. “Corporate …
Wendy Davis Announces Bid For Texas Governor’s Seat
The Democrat who rose to national fame after her 11-hour filibuster in June faces a tough uphill battle
Wendy Davis Eyes Texas Governor Run
Democrat became star for filibuster of antiabortion bill
Democrats Now Serve Two Masters: DNC and Organizing for Action
Can the Democratic Party — rarely a smoothly coordinated creature — function when two different outfits in two different cities are trying to run the show?
Obama Comes to New York for Barbara Walters and, sorta, the United Nations
Though Gotham is full of visiting heads of government and state, the President is meeting no one this time around. Is it insurance against possible gaffes? Or just a broader excuse not to meet the Prime Minister of Israel?
Obama’s DNC Speech: Hope Urged, Tough Slog Promised
I’m not on President Obama’s payroll, no matter what Stephen Colbert says, so I can say this without fear of being fired: I didn’t get that speech. It felt subdued and clichéd. It felt like it was a few speeches stitched …
Obama Argues for a Second Term Without Closing the Deal
The President gave a fine speech Thursday night. His vision of the country is much closer to the place where I live — and, I daresay, where most Americans live — than Mitt Romney’s. It is an America that includes truck …
Obama’s Challenge: Defining Forward as More than Just a Slogan
The President’s convention speech is his one real chance to tell the American people what they are voting for, not just what they are voting against. And the stage is the one he prefers
Bill Clinton and the Charlotte Home-Run Derby
With two nights of the Democratic National Convention down, it’s safe to draw a clear comparison between Charlotte and Tampa. At last week’s Republican affair, you had the sense of fingers crossed in the hope that the big …
Anti-Abortion Democrats Argue for More Inclusion
Charlotte, N.C.
“Being pro-life in the Democratic Party can be a lonely place,” former Pennsylvania Representative Kathy Dahlkemper said on Tuesday. She and three fellow anti-abortion liberals were sitting on a Democrats …
Charlie Crist Is Back – and Democrats Are Smart to Take Him In
It’s hard to believe now that the GOP ever allowed such a thing. In 2007, the host of a major climate-change summit was none other than Florida’s then governor — and then Republican — Charlie Crist. “If you go back to …
The Obama Campaign Claims Ownership of Truth
Honestly, the Obama campaign has a new message. “We’re going to have an honest conversation,” said campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt on Monday in Charlotte, N.C. Senior strategist Stephanie Cutter elaborated with a knock on …