Who — besides Ted Cruz — predicted that Donald Trump would spend the second half of 2015 riding racism and xenophobia to the top of the polls thus allowing a supportive Cruz a chance to angle into the GOP nomination as the “reasonable” candidate? Anyone? Getting everything wrong seemed to be the one thing pundits did right in 2015 — […]

Another massive transfer of wealth to the richest just when we need it least Whenever people point out that Ronald Reagan would be too liberal for today’s Republican Party, I get the point. He backed immigration reform and gun safety restrictions after leaving the White House. Reagan also recognized that his ability to slash government was limited by a Democratic […]

Just because Republicans should lose does not mean they will We’re less than 11 months from the most important election of our lifetime and the polls mean almost nothing at this point. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t note that given the demographic challenges conservatives have created for themselves, the sight of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz as the […]

The Flint water crisis was declared a state of emergency by Mayor Karen Weaver this week — something we’ve known for months. But much of the nation still has no idea what has been perpetrated against the people of this battered city. One person is trying to change that. “Governor, the water of the city of Flint, Michigan has been […]

A Story for Anyone Who’d Do It All Over Again Josh Mailer didn’t know that his company needed Vice President of Human Resources. If he had, he probably wouldn’t have pulled the rooster boxers he’d just won on over his Dockers. Still—even as he sat down in the too bright second-floor office that he’d been called into as the Christmas […]

The next election won’t just decide the future of reproductive rights, it will decide if the 20th century can be repealed Abigail Fisher was denied admission to the University of Texas, a school that’s more selective than Harvard, because her academic record wasn’t good enough. She sued because a handful of minority students along with 42 white students were granted […]

This guest post comes from Sean McElwee — a research associate at Demos and an excellent follow on Twitter. Find out more about Sean and his work by checking out his most recent post for Eclectablog. Also be sure to follow Brian Schaffner on Twitter @b_schaffner. In my latest Salon column, I explore a new working paper by political scientists […]

I blame the economy. November’s jobs report confirmed that 2015 is likely to be the second best year of job creation this century, only trailing 2014. Instead of wrecking the economy, Obamacare has led us to more new jobs than we’ve seen all century. While the president’s signature health care reforms face real challenges that demand improvements, more than 17 […]

  “Now the poor guy, you gotta see this guy,” Donald Trump said before proceeding to risibly mock a disabled reporter. When the New York Times called him on his latest micro-abomination, Trump insisted that he didn’t remember the reporter he’d so vividly lampooned and demanded an apology. And, as the cliche now goes, this will only help him in […]

You know that earlier this week Michigan’s governor Rick Snyder helped lead the shameful charge against accepting Syrian refugees that Republicans have cravenly engineered in order to stoke fears in the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Paris last week. Now we know that he called for a pause in the program for no clear reason. In an interview on NPR Thursday, the […]

Democrats have the people; Republicans have the power For much of this year, I’ve been working on answering the essential question of politics, “How do Republicans win?” How did a Tea Partier who’d never be elected to anything that didn’t involve a homecoming game become governor of Kentucky by a margin of 80,000 votes after promising to take health insurance […]