I don't think Cruz is likely to win the nomination, but I do think he will play an important role nonetheless: Cruz is a long shot to win the nomination, but he is a canny politician with enough of a base of support to act...
Author: Scott Lemieux
An object lesson: A former administrator at Chicago State University has accused its president and other officials of firing her in part because she refused their demands that she file.
It was five years ago today that the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. Particularly given the immense difficulties and compromises inherent in getting legislation through the World's Worst.
While obviously New York City has mass transit that most of the country would envy, it's becoming both worse and more expensive: Fares are about to go up. Delays are driving riders to distraction. And on a recent evening, Ian Nolan’s train was out of...
Well, he's smarter than Rick Perry, give him that. The race to the winger bottom is going to be even more intense in the 2016 primaries, what with this cycle's Texas.
An interview with Andrew Ross on the NYU's deal with the devil. Mark Schmitt: "How candidates spend money can be as interesting as how they get it." The post-hockey life.
Above: Now that's how you compromise on abortion policy! Today, the editorial board of the Washington Post honors the memory of David Broder with a pitch-perfect parody of Both Sides Doitism. The thesis: the Republicans holding the nomination of Loretta Lynch hostage to try...
Paul Ryan urges Republican statehouses to do what they would do anyway: If the Supreme Court strikes down subsidies to states using the federal health insurance exchanges, Rep. Paul Ryan.
You may have seen Will Baude's op-ed arguing that Obama could just ignore a Supreme Court ruling that providing subsidies on the federally established exchanges for everyone but the four.
Shorter Tom Friedman: Nobody could have anticipated that invading Iraq would do far more for Iranian interests than American ones. You are still supposed to care about my foreign policy views for some reason. You know, I'm almost beginning to think that scorching hot non-sequiturs...
The Republican budget presents a clear Republican health care plan: The Republican Party’s greatest health-care triumph is that it has managed to pass off its position on health care as.
Of the many ways one could react to the Daily Tucker's rule forbidding bloggers from criticizing people who pay Tucker Carlson, this is one of them: Carlson's noisy (and controversial).