Politics

Campaigning for president in 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama said: “Affordable, universal health care for every single American must not be a question of whether, it must be a question of how.” What followed three years later? Scary claims from Republicans of “death panels,” “socialized medicine” and “government takeovers” of health care. And in 2009, health…

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivered the keynote address to the New Jersey State NAACP Conference Saturday afternoon. He touted some of the criminal-justice issues that he’s worked on recently with African-American leaders, but over the course of his tenure as governor, Christie has an abysmal record when it comes to most issues that are…

Today President Barack Obama will travel to Los Angeles County, Calif., to designate the San Gabriel Mountains as America’s newest national monument, and a timeless piece of our national heritage. In many ways this nation’s story is etched into its land, and as the president is recognizing today, each of our monuments provides us with…

In what seems like a last-minute Hail Mary attempt to get young people to the voting booths in November, the Obama White House is shedding light on the facets of his economic policies that have and will help millennials. President Barack Obama gave a speech Thursday to young entrepreneurs in Santa Monica, Calif., reminding them…

Something fishy is going down in Ferguson, Mo.—and it’s not just with the cops.   While that hint of something not quite right grows with each passing retaliatory arrest and botched grand jury probe, the extent is still unclear. But at one time, political change in the wake of Michael Brown’s killing seemed like a…

With little more than two years left in his administration, former administration officials are deserting President Barack Obama like rats on a sinking ship. The latest betrayal comes from Clinton loyalist Leon Panetta—former Democratic congressman, White House chief of staff, CIA director and secretary of defense. This isn’t how it was supposed to go. In…

There are plenty of clichéd metaphors we apply to elections and warfare. Getting out the vote is the “ground war,” hotly contested states are “battleground states” and any campaign commercial in which candidates aren’t hugging each other is an “attack ad.” And there’s another cliché to add to the mix that’s never been more apparent…

Last week, voting-rights advocates hailed a legal victory—at least briefly—when a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit cleared the way for North Carolina voters to utilize same-day voter registration and out-of-precinct provisional balloting, both of which were eliminated in a revision of the state’s election law that was passed…

As if Americans needed another deadline to add to that list of to-do’s Post-it-noted on their at-work computer screens, here’s a big one: If you live in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington or the District of Columbia, today* is the last day to register…