Zombie banks, voodoo economics—these are just some of the horror-movie terms being tossed around right now that lend an even spookier air to discussion of the economic crisis. But there's a scarier...
Populist anger has reached a boiling point in the US with the announcement that American International Group, one of the first companies to get a bailout from the government, paid $220 million in...
Bobby Jindal, Louisiana's governor, was presented as the Republican party's answer to Barack Obama on Tuesday night, giving the response to the president's speech to the joint session of Congress....
In his speech to the Congress (and the world) on Tuesday night, Barack Obama outlined many changes that he plans to make going forward. He touched on education and health care reform, and had even...
Barack Obama's campaign for the White House got a lot of attention for its savvy Web organizing, its skill at fundraising and even just for the size of its email list—13 million names. The backbone...
Those “Oh my god, the Bush era is over” moments are getting fewer and farther between now as the Obama administration settles in. The easy-to-accomplish changes have happened, and now the hard...
Vice President Joe Biden's biography became a campaign tool when he joined the Obama ticket this past summer. Then-Senator Biden's no-bull attitude meshed well with the story of the father who took...
Save your psychic self-defense 'Cause I don't care what you're against What are you for? -All, "What are you for?" The progressive movement in the United States is having a strange identity crisis...
Hillary Clinton's foreign policy rhetoric on the campaign trail was filled with testosterone-rich words like "destroy" and "kill." She even ran the now-infamous "red phone ad," where she implied that...
I've never been much for patriotism. Never understood what the heck people were talking about, frankly, when they said they wanted to serve their country. I started trying to change my country long...