Don't whine about Congress if you haven't exerted the minimal effort to ask it to behave differently.
Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is calling for a United Nations investigation into Israel's attacks on Gaza, criticizing Israel for a disproportionate r...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
Welcome to our annual awards! For the past three years, this column has paid homage (translation: "ripped off their gimmick") to the McLaughlin Group...
Matt Elrod | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
A significant reallocation of scarce resources from criminal justice to public health solutions is long overdue, but drug policy is multi-disciplinary and international in scope.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics
If the Bush administration would have at least acted like they might have done something wrong, maybe we could have moved on. But if Cheney is going on national TV to endorse torture, he has tied the hands of the country.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics
As President-Elect Obama continues to assemble his "team of rivals" by filling Cabinet positions with former political opponents, he has drawn the ire of one self-styled rival who feels he has been unfairly overlooked.
Mike Sheehan | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
Rep. Kucinich (D-OH) -- whom we around here affectionately refer to as the "Peace Gnome" -- is urging the L.A. City Council to free a captive elephant languishing in a county zoo.
The Media Consortium | Posted 11.18.2008 | Business
The Bush administration is squandering hundreds of billions of dollars on incompetence again -- the whole thing is beginning to look a little too much like Iraq.
Indra Adnan | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
Perhaps all that is needed is a good role model for soft power: someone who seeks to engage rather than stand off, capable of dialogue not just debate.
Donna Albergotti | Posted 10.21.2008 | Living
With infectious optimism, One Can Make a Difference ends up being a comforting, hopeful read for seemingly helpless times.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics
America must move from the errant, retributive justice of 9/11 to a healing, restorative process of truth and reconciliation.
Michael Carmichael | Posted 08.29.2008 | Politics
Obama calmly yet passionately defined himself and his prescription for America in radical juxtaposition to the record of George Bush and the agenda of John McCain.
The Hill | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is tightening the reins on campaign speeches and stressing that speakers emphasize a rags-to-riches theme. Members of Cong...
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics
Hillary has hit the unity ball into the other court. If delegates strongly feel the need to vote for her, it is not because she didn't try to persuade them. The choice is theirs.
Robert Naiman | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics
My guess is that Dennis Kucinich's speech will be the only one at the DNC that takes note of the fact that international law also applies to the United States. Let's get busy turning that around.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.26.2008 | Politics
Dennis Kucinich took to the podium today at the Democratic Convention and fired up the crowd with a rousing speech. Kucinich's enthusiasm reached a c...
Rob Kall | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
Impeachment hearings would finally show that the Congress is doing its job -- protecting the constitution -- and it will very likely cause a drastic bump in the ratings for the Dems in congress.
Dan Cardozo | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
Democrats have every right to feel angry, but I'd like to suggest that when they get red in the face and loose their venom on the world, they are no longer Democrats, but something else entirely.
Robbie Gennet | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
Many people are talking about what VP choices await Barack Obama, but let's look one step further to Obama's Cabinet and whom he would put in charge of different areas of our country.
Jennifer Bogut | Posted 07.21.2008 | Home
Who is in your dream Administration, and what role would they play? I JUST finished tabulating the results you sent in as part of our new "What's Your Take" community feature.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
For only the fourth (or fifth, depending on how you count) time in his presidency, George W. Bush had a veto overridden by both houses of Congress thi...
The Nation | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
Impeachment is on the table. But Congress is not allowed to bite. The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on one of Ohio Congressman Denni...
Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
Rep. Dennis Kucinich continued his seemingly quixotic crusade to impeach President Bush last week. But with Speaker Pelosi suggesting the House Judici...
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Welcome back to Friday Talking Points, after a one-week hiatus! While plenty has happened in the past two weeks which bears close and careful analysis...
Politico | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said this morning that the House Judiciary Committee may hold hearings on an impeachment resolution offered by Rep. De...
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Robert Naiman | Posted 01.06.2009 | World