ANALYSIS & OPINION
Voters: Fire our partisan, failed Congress
Unless moderate voters begin supporting candidates - particularly Senators - who cross party lines, our destructive national deadlock will continue.
Keeping tabs on the Red Cross; Romney’s transition plans; Obama’s next book
The Red Cross has opened itself to criticism of its use of disaster funds in the past. How will that play out in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy?
Delegitimization of Obama begins
The conservative blogosphere has lit up with the specious argument that if Romney wins the popular vote while Obama carries the Electoral College, it would undermine his mandate and justify continued GOP obstruction. Nonsense.Can one-party rule fix California?
Democrats now hold all California statewide offices and have a shot Tuesday at achieving two-thirds majorities in the Legislature. Yet they are far from being able to unilaterally resolve the Golden State's fiscal logjam.
Next president will face a darker world
The next U.S. president will have to deal with a world that is likely to offer little in the way of democratic inspiration, as the Arab spring did for a time in 2010.
It’s the (lack of) unity, stupid!
This country has been growing more politically divided for the past 50 years. We now have the largest partisan division we've ever seen. But the problem isn't President Barack Obama or his policies. The problem is the problem. .
The ‘Obama debt’ fallacy
Barack Obama is furthering Bill Clinton's policies. Romney would go back to the tactics of both Presidents Bush. The results of the two approaches in terms of economic growth, job creation, government debt and virtually every other economic statistic speak for themselves.MOST COMMENTED
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