Introducing E.W. Jackson, The Republican Party's Newest "Black Folks are on Plantation" …

The Republican Party has an obsession with black voters, slavery analogies, and plantations. As I have discussed many times, the Right's obsession ...

GOP campaign chief: Chris Gibson ‘an incredibly hard worker’ whose challenger ‘is worth a lot of dough’

Albany Times Union 4 hours ago

Chris Gibson on the campaign trail in 2010. (Times Union photo) Capital Region congressman Chris Gibson could face a well-financed Democrat in a ...

Republican Bills Would Obstruct Enforcement of Environmental Laws

Switchboard 2 hours ago

John Walke, Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. The following was originally published on RegBlog on May 20, 2013.

Frank Rich: GOP Whitewash

History News Network 2 hours ago

Frank Rich is Writer-at-Large for New York Magazine. ...In pursuit of higher office, the image-conscious [Rand] Paul took his own stab at outreach ...

The Obama Scandals and Republicans

Commentary 2 hours ago

Republican lawmakers are receiving lots of advice–some from people sympathetic to the GOP, some less so–on the political dangers posed to them by the ...

What About When The President Is Republican? Why Liberals Shouldn’t Dismiss The DOJ And IRS Scandals

Mediaite 5 hours ago

While many liberals and progressives have come around to condemning the government’s actions in these recent Internal Revenue Service and Justice ...

Republicans may get more than they bargained for

Lower Hudson Online 1 hour ago

The storm clouds of 'scandal,' like a breakout of springtime tornadoes in the South and Midwest, seem to be encircling the White House with the ...

House passes GOP bill to speed pipeline approval

The Associated Press 22 hours ago

WASHINGTON — House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada ...