- How Congress became the most polarized and unproductive it's ever been WaPo
- Conservatives Admit Tirade Over The Debt Limit Amounts To 'Theater'
- Debt ceiling 2014: Here we go again.
- Quote of the Day: GOP in a Tailspin Over Debt Limit Increase
- House GOP may try to link debt ceiling approval to changes to health-care law WaPo
- GOP Exaggerates 'Obamacare Victim' Story In State Of The Union Response
- Paul Krugman: GOP's Obamacare lies hurt American families—"The New York Times columnist excoriates Republicans [NYT] for concocting stories of Obamacare failure." Salon
- What G.O.P.-Style Reform Looks Like—"An alternative plan falls far short of what the existing health care law already provides." NYT
- More Republicans Push For Fixing, Not Repealing, Obamacare—"A rift is growing between Tea Party activists and other Republicans over health care. Some influential conservatives are now saying the Affordable Care Act is too entrenched to repeal."
- 'Obamacare Bailout' Does Not Exist, Confirms Government; House Republicans Demand Its Repeal Anyway
- Fact Check: Anti-Obamacare Chorus Is Off-Key
- No, CBO did not say Obamacare will kill 2 million jobs WaPo
- How Obamacare Could Be A Boon For Workers, According To CBO—"[T]he law could end up boosting worker wages."
- More Access To Health Care Means Millions Can Quit Or Cut Hours
- Dionne: Willful stupidity in the Obamacare debate WaPo
- The Best Of The Bad Reporting On Obamacare, The CBO And Jobs
- How Did the Media Blow It So Badly on Yesterday's CBO Report?
- Fired Christie Staffer Pleads 5th, Refuses to Turn Over Documents
- One More Time: No, the Fort Lee Lane Closures Were Not Part of a Traffic Study
- Christie's shameless, desperate new play: Wooing the GOP base—"Attacking the New York Times and finally visiting the troops at CPAC, the ex-GOP frontrunner turns right for help." Salon
- Christie's Evolving Answers On When He Knew About The Bridge Closures
- $4.8M in Sandy Relief Money Went to Fund Luxury Apartment Tower in New Brunswick
- Why I Left the Republican Party—"My opinion is the 'Duck Dynasty Wing' of the Republican Party has taken over the GOP, and they're not about to retreat in their war on science and common sense."
- George Lakoff: 'Conservatives don't follow the polls, they want to change them … Liberals do everything wrong'
- Obama Calls Out Fox News In Pre-Super Bowl Interview: 'You And Your TV Station' Keep Scandals Alive
- Milbank: From Obamacare to the IRS scandal, Republicans are ignoring the facts WaPo
- South Dakota GOP Lawmaker: Our Crazy Legislature Makes People Not Want To Live Here
- Coca-Cola's multilingual Super Bowl ad is driving Twitter xenophobes crazy—"Apparently singing "America the Beautiful" in multiple languages is worthy of a boycott." Salon
- Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad: Can you believe this reaction?
- Coca-Cola Critics Have Never Heard of 'E Pluribus Unum'—"The rage directed at the Super Bowl ad with 'America the Beautiful' sung in foreign languages shows some people can't get on board with the future."
- Voter Shortsightedness May Skew Elections
- State Sen. Roderick Wright found guilty of perjury, voter fraud
- A New Hampshire bill would allow voters to vote for "none of the above."
- GOP's new dirty trick: Why our election laws are a joke—"The NRCC is probably flagrantly violating election regulations -- but here's why they won't be punished." Salon
- Trick Websites Dupe Democrats Into Donating To Republicans
- How Democrats Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Super PACs
- Karl Rove's 2012 election crash and burn closed donor wallets in 2013
- Dems seriously alarmed by Koch money—"Vulnerable Dems are getting swamped by anti-Obamacare ads." Like what's happening in North Carolina [Politico].
- Republican Governors Association outraises Democrats: Can Chris Christie keep the money flowing for the GOP?
- Reversing the grievous error of Citizens United WaPo
- Support grows to cut public funding for political conventions
- Fundraising fizzles for many in Tea Party
- The Koch Brothers Left a Confidential Document at Their Last Donor Conference—Read It Here—"A list of one-on-one meetings between VIP donors and the Kochs and their operatives offers a revealing look into their mighty political machine."
- In Congress's farm bill, the rich get richer—"Mr. Obama, like Congress, surrenders to the ag lobby." WaPo
- American school children shouldn't go hungry. Neither should their parents—"Congress and the White House are guilty of taking food from the mouths of kids and adults in the latest Farm Bill cuts."
- The 1 percent wins again: The system's so fixed that a global class war is only a dream—"No, there won't be a global campaign against global inequality. The wealthy have written the rules to guarantee it." Salon
- Detroit City Council approves land transfer for billionaire's sports stadium
- Judge orders no jail for teen in fatal car wreck—"Judge Jean Boyd again decided to give no jail time for Ethan Couch, defense attorney Reagan Wynn and prosecutors told reporters after the hearing, which was closed to the public." Affluenza strikes again.
- Tories are taxing poor while ignoring 'Billionaires Row' scandal, says Labour—"MP says The Bishops Avenue is 'stark example of empty homes problem' and wants councils to be given powers to treble rates."
- Tom Perkins and the guilt of the gilded WaPo
- One percenter paranoia reveals dangers of inequality—"What do today's liberals and the Nazis of the 1930s have in common?" WaPo
- How Inequality Hollows Out the Soul—"Our tendency to equate wealth with inner worth invokes deep psychological responses." NYT
- The Middle Class Is Steadily Eroding. Just Ask the Business World.—"The post-recession reality is that the customer base for businesses that appeal to the middle class is shrinking as the top tier pulls even further away." NYT
- Luxury Goods Are The Only Growth Industries -- And That's Bad
