How to improve Obamacare and fix the Democrats’ midterm problem in your spare time Poll numbers are the only numbers anyone is talking about this weekend before the midterm election. But last Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a number that would have been huge news only months ago, when Republicans and the media were desperate for […]

Bad news for the middle class. Fantastic news for corporations. You’re not supposed to mention it but 2014 could be the best year for job growth in this century. One of the key factors in the sudden robustness of the job market has been the longest period of stability in Washington, D.C. since the Great Recession began. After the government […]

Republicans have had chance after to chance to prove that voter impersonation is a problem worthy of burdensome new government regulations. And they’ve failed again and again. There’s a simple explanation for this: Voter impersonation isn’t a problem worthy of burdensome new government regulations. There have been one billion votes cast since 2000, The Nation‘s Ari Berman pointed out in this […]

Republicans won’t face an electoral map as friendly as they’ll greet on November 4, 2014 until 2018 — or possibly ever. The GOP can hold the House without winning a single Latino vote. It can win the Senate without swaying one Obama voter. Then it can start passing bills that will only remind people why Republicans have lost five out […]

“Lawyers live under a rule called Rule 11, which provides that it is unethical for a lawyer to file a pleading for purposes of delay rather than to achieve a result,” Arizona’s Republican Attorney General Tom Horton said in a statement on Friday explaining why we would not appeal the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to allow same-sex marriages […]

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The only thing we have to fear is Republican fear itself. Unemployment claims are now steady at an eight-year low as we’re in the middle of what could be the best year of job growth of this century. Two straight years of the rich paying slightly more in taxes along with ten million Americans gaining health insurance has resulted in […]

You really cannot understate the advantages Republicans have in this year’s battle for the control of the Senate. Both parties are bashing each other for voters in nine states states Mitt Romney won as he was busy losing by millions of votes.  Meanwhile, all the structural advantages — older, whiter turnout; the party that holds the White House tends lose […]

Or is Terri Lynn Land just the worst Senate candidate of 2014? On Tuesday we learned that National Republican Senatorial Committee has cancelled all television ads for the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan and the candidate will spend a big chunk of the millions she’s raised, much of it from herself, on billboards. Michigan was supposed to be […]

The economy under President Obama seems difficult to defend — unless you put it in context. The president attempted to do that on Thursday in a speech at Northwestern University: Here are the facts: When I took office, businesses were laying off 800,000 Americans a month. Today, our businesses are hiring 200,000 Americans a month. The unemployment rate has come […]

It was the best reminder that one million Michigan Democrats didn’t vote in 2010. It was the worst reminder that one million Democrats didn’t vote in 2010. With nothing like a GOP wave approaching Michigan, the party’s two headline state-wide candidates — Rick Snyder and Terri Lynn Land — have retreated into campaign styles that illustrate why that millions of […]