Newt Gingrich’s Tea Party Problem Newt Gingrich’s Tea Party Problem
His rhetoric appeals to the Tea Party, but his past record doesn’t.
Dec 5, 2011 / Ben Adler
Why Mitt Romney Avoids Interviews Why Mitt Romney Avoids Interviews
Even on Fox News Romney is defensive and unable to explain a key policy.
Dec 1, 2011 / Ben Adler
Melissa Harris-Perry: Herman Cain’s Campaign Train Wreck Melissa Harris-Perry: Herman Cain’s Campaign Train Wreck
What is Cain still doing in the GOP's presidential nomination race?
Dec 1, 2011 / Press Room
The Nastiness of Newt The Nastiness of Newt
Gingrich, the champion of child labor, has risen to the top of a GOP field so extreme it would scare Goldwater and Reagan.
Nov 30, 2011 / The Editors
Rick Perry’s War on Women Rick Perry’s War on Women
How the Texas governor launched an assault on Planned Parenthood and women’s health.
Nov 30, 2011 / Feature / Jordan Smith
Unions Beat GOP Candidates as New Hampshire Blocks Anti-Labor Law Unions Beat GOP Candidates as New Hampshire Blocks Anti-Labor Law
Even as Republican presidential contenders stake out extreme anti-labor positions in New Hampshire, unions in that state have succeeded in blocking an anti-union “Right-to-Wo...
Nov 30, 2011 / John Nichols
The Myth of the Self-Loathing Liberal The Myth of the Self-Loathing Liberal
Jonathan Chait has it backwards: Progressives' problem has been too much loyalty to the President, not too little.
Nov 30, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Anti-‘Too Big to Fail’ Jon Huntsman Nails Romney as Wall Street’s Man Anti-‘Too Big to Fail’ Jon Huntsman Nails Romney as Wall Street’s Man
Taking the position of former Senator Russ Feingold, former Utah governor positions himself as the anti-bankster candidate -- and a serious alternative to over-the-top corporatism ...
Nov 30, 2011 / John Nichols
Is Obama ‘Abandoning’ the White Working Class? Is Obama ‘Abandoning’ the White Working Class?
Conservatives are completely misrepresenting a study of the electorate.
Nov 30, 2011 / Ben Adler
Why Conservatives Like Newt Gingrich Why Conservatives Like Newt Gingrich
It’s more than just their distaste for Mitt Romney. Gingrich appeals to conservatives with his extreme denunciations of liberals.
Nov 29, 2011 / Ben Adler