Politics

Lawmakers are in a knot over everything from the Affordable Care Act to finding a rare congressional kumbaya moment for a budget deal. But perhaps you haven’t noticed—it seems as if the last thing anyone in Washington, D.C., wants to talk about is employment. That’s fairly strange, considering it’s still rather rough out there as…

Democrats used the newly adjusted anti-filibustering rules to win Senate confirmation of Jeh Johnson, the president’s top pick for secretary of Homeland Security. The Senate voted 78-16 to confirm Johnson, a former top lawyer for the Pentagon who served as general counsel to the Defense Department during most of President Obama’s first term, ABC News…

A federal budget deal was reached that would avoid another government shutdown because President Obama wasn’t involved in the negotiations, Washington Post columnist Bob Woodward said Sunday on Fox Morning News. The budget bill replaces $65 billion in across-the-board spending cuts that were set for this year and next. “I think this budget deal worked,…

It’s tempting to forget about South Africa, now that Nelson Mandela has found his final resting place. But the South Africa he transformed is still changing in interesting and surprising ways. The nation is already the economic powerhouse of the continent and has recently muscled its way onto the world stage. It will see watershed…

Nelson Mandela was buried in his childhood village of Qunu, South Africa, on Sunday, ending the journey of the singular man who went from prisoner to president and revolutionized South Africa. A military escort accompanied his coffin to the burial site and removed the national flag that draped his coffin, CNN reports. His widow, Graça…

As we came together to plan the national memorial service of our world’s father, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, it dawned on me that we were planning the impossible. We were trying to package what could never fit in a box. No one title could completely encapsulate Mandela. He was a freedom fighter, a visionary, a change…

In a show of support for President Obama, who has taken some heat for a selfie taken during Nelson Mandela’s memorial service this week, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Helle Thorning-Schmidt, prime minister of Denmark, say the photo wasn’t inappropriate. “There were lots of pictures taken that day, and I just thought it was…

Don’t say I didn’t tell you: Two years from now, the GOP will officially split into two parties, with traditional Republicans getting freed up to do their thing while a more robust Tea Party spin-off picks its own nominee for a presidential election that will be unlike any we’ve seen since Ross Perot’s wild ride…