Igor Bobic brings us the latest from Speaker Boehner: Asked on Friday what kind of specific entitlement cuts he seeks in a deal with the W...

By C.A. Rotwang By now if you're tuned into progressive commentary in the 'blahgosphere', on MSNBC, and on Current TV, you...

Sahil Kapur listened to Senators Graham and John McCain so we didn’t have to: Republican lawmakers are increasingly abandoning Grover Norq...

For my day job, I’ve been thinking about gasoline prices, which means I’ve been re-reading an excellent post by James Hamilton as well as l...

It is now several days since the once-every-ten years Congress of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party that decides on the t...

The title is a quote from a "senior US official" reported by super well-informed WaPo columnist David Ignatius weeks ago.  The gis...

No, but Allan Sloan in the Washington Post today thinks it can, or maybe it can.  He proposes that Treasury borrow $200 billion in US govern...

I think I know what the grand bargain will be.   Obama will be a hero to the left by marginally increasing taxes on the people who earn mor...

Today the Washington Post reported that Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has ordered that state agencies should plan for a 4% reduction in fu...

In President Obama's victory speech last night, he touched on a theme that he has stressed on two previous, conspicuous occasions: ...

I don’t know if opinion is more polarized in the US than it used to be.  I do feel, however, that the rhetoric has become more polarized. ...

Benjy Sarlin listens to Mitt Romney so we don’t have to: Today’s increase in the unemployment rate is a sad reminder that the economy is a...

Sahil Kapur reports on something that does not surprise me on two levels: The author of a Congressional Research Service study, who found ...

Oh, I just cannot resist this, :-).  So the Great October Surprise turns out to be a monster Frankenstorm/Snowicane combining a hurricane wi...

The German composer died the other day at the age of 86, productive until near the end.  Listen again to Das Floß der Medusa (The Raft of t...