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I've always thought that Romney's claim that Obama "denigrates" ( blackens ) small business owners and "denigrates...

As Republicans have doubled and trebled down on their post-truth campaign -- asserting falsely that Obama is gutting welfare reform, gutting...

At a Duane Reade checkout counter this morning, the young Asian woman behind the register asked me in halting English if I'd like to don...

The entire Republican convention was built around the lie that Obama asserted that business owners didn't build their own businesses. ...

There's nothing new here, but it kills me to read comments like this* from Obamaite billionaires: Warren Buffett, America’s second-ri...

Mitt Romney, the man who can't speak his own name without misrepresentation , now seems a bit confused about his chosen personal avatar:...

Canvassing for Obama on the suburban fringe of Allentown, PA today, I had two unusually long conversations with undecideds. Both were mistr...

Early this year, when the media aired a strategic debate as to whether the Obama team should paint Romney as a flip-flopper or as a conser...

Positing that in an election this close, debates are likely to be decisive, James Fallows has done the Obama team the service of seeking to...

Speaking at a New York fundraiser heavy with basketball stars on Wednesday, Obama ventured a snapshot of how far the GOP has moved to the r...

Hey, Republicans, I've got a new attack ad for you. Obama wants to gut educational standards. He said so , in a Las Vegas high school th...

Harold Pollack points out that Paul Ryan's plan to restructure Medicare can't be considered in isolation from his plans to block-gr...

Of the assault by a mob of Israeli teenagers in Jerusalem of several Arab teens, one of whom was beaten unconscious, one Israeli educator ha...

The battle between the parties over Medicare reform is a battle about how best to control costs.  Ryan and Romney rely exclusively on the Co...

As I've explored in the last three posts, the Medicare reform plan in Ryan's 2013 budget blurs Democratic attack lines because it lo...

On a second read of the Medicare reform plan outlined in Paul Ryan's 2013 budget , I was whipsawed by crosscurrents of irony. I was go...

In my last post , I noted that Senator Ron Wyden, by partnering with Paul Ryan last December in a proposal to convert Medicare to a premium...

Senator Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, is upset that people are casting the Medicare reform plan he put forward with Paul Ryan last December with t...

In April and May,  during the countdown to the Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, I did everything ...

As I've mentioned before , as a teenager I was a serial reader of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five .  When I read this little fr...