An insider account of the Californian’s first four years as House speaker reveals how she prodded Washington’s more timid male leaders to do big things.
Harry Reid
Posted inMagazine
To Save the Planet, Divide and Conquer
Democrats make progress on climate change when they set business lobbies against each other.
Posted inPolitics
Conservatives Killed the Supreme Court Nomination of Harriet Miers, Dooming Roe v. Wade
In 2005, the right stopped George W. Bush’s pick for the Court. Would it have been very different if she had made it?
Posted inPolitical Animal
Mitch McConnell Goes Nuclear, Again
In an effort to fix a problem he invented, McConnell will again break Senate rules to change Senate rules.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Trump Supporters Are Being Set Up to Dismiss His Ties to Russia
The right wing media is resurrecting lies to discredit the results of the special prosecutor’s investigation.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Cool Down, Everybody: GOP Climate Heroes Are Still Hard to Find
Sorry, but there’s no reason to pick up the pom-poms for Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Susan Collins (R-ME), whose votes were admittedly crucial to stopping the latest right-wing scheme to destroy President Obama’s climate-protection efforts. Let’s not label them climate hawks just yet, OK? McCain lost his credibility on this issue […]
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Can and Should Mitch McConnell Go Nuclear?
The Senate majority leader could be in for a rude awakening.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Gray Zone: A Florida Fiasco, or a Progressive Possibility?
Something about it just rubbed me the wrong way. Back in May, when Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) appeared on MSNBC’s AM Joy, I was disturbed to see the US Senate candidate lambaste and hector host Joy Reid for asking questions about his alleged financial improprieties. It was a sour segment: the image of a powerful […]
