In the ArenaRepublican Party
David Brooks has a very important column today in which he proposes a new, moderate wing of the Republican Party, standing in opposition to the Rush-Fox-Tea Party extremists. For this new political vision to become coherent, it needs three components: military domestic values, foreign policy realism, and ‘live and let live’ responsibility.
The share of America’s workforce that’s unionized hit a 97-year low in 2012. The weakness of labor is everyone’s problem — and its revival everyone’s opportunity.
“I’ve had this position for a very long time, even longer than Barack Obama and Joe Biden...I think where the Republican Party needs to go is we need to be a more modern party, we need to be a more inclusive party.”
The Senate’s Gang of Eight hails a “major breakthrough” on a comprehensive bill, but they have a long way to go.
The validity of the recess appointment last January of Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is now in question. The value of CFPB is not.
Led by the laboratories of democracy, particularly Colorado and Washington, the legalize marijuana movement is headed from the fringe to the mainstream.
Here’s a three-point plan for Obama’s new nominee Mary Jo White.
The Republican Party’s post-election reckoning is not going well.
This morning big banks woke up scared witless at the news of Obama’s pick to head the SEC, Mary Jo White.
“We’ve got to stop being the stupid party. It’s time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults.”
Men and women differ from each other in peace, so it should come as no surprise that they’ll likely differ in combat, as well.
