The midterm elections brought an unprecedented number of climate skeptics into Congress, with no incoming Republicans acknowledging the existence of man-made climate change. Environmentalists have all but given up on passing significant climate legislation in the near future, but in the long term, it may be difficult for climate More…
Freshman Rep. Mark Critz (D) managed to survive Tuesday’s Republican onslaught in Pennsylvania, a tidal wave that swept out five of his Democratic colleagues from the state’s House delegation, flipped a U.S. Senate seat and handed full control of the state government to the GOP. Critz, who took the seat More…
President Obama just fielded questions about the way forward following last night’s election and the huge gains made by Republicans in the House. He refused to concede that his policy decisions made up to this point in his presidency are the reason the electorate voted overwhelmingly against Democrats last night, More…
When most East Coasters could no longer follow the returns from sheer exhaustion, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) had fallen behind challenger Ken Buck (R) in his Senate race, and the momentum was not leaning his way. By morning, however, he’s regained a narrow lead in the polls: With 87 percent More…
Pundits may differ over which natural disaster analogy was most fitting — tidal wave or earthquake? — but Republicans made large gains in both chambers of Congress and various statehouses across the country on election day. And while, at the time of writing, races in several key Western states were More…
Hey readers! Hope you’re all exercising your constitutional rights and hitting the polls today. While you’re there, keep an eye out for anything out of the ordinary. If you see evidence of voter intimidation, malfunctioning voting machines, unusually high or low turnout, campaign workers at polling stations or anything else More…
The vast Koch Industries-led cabal of GOP donors, free-market ideologues and titans of industry is real, it turns out, and The New York Times has obtained the letter that proves it. Before the 2010 midterms are even over, the company led by Charles and David Koch has sent out More…
This year, Congress passed the most ambitious agenda in recent memory, overhauling how the nation regulates banks and financial products and dramatically reforming the health-care system. President Obama had hoped to add comprehensive energy legislation — with a cap-and-trade program — to that list, but the Senate failed to move More…
President Obama spoke with George Stephanopoulos yesterday in Cleveland, and the interview is being aired this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America. It was a wide-ranging talk in which the president stood firm on letting the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans lapse, spoke against Pastor Terry Jones’s More…
Now that we’re past Labor Day, a number of candidates have started spending big money on ad buys selling their biographies and touting their accomplishments. In California, former governor and current gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown (D) has finally made his first ad purchase of his general election campaign against Meg More…
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