That was quick: The governor of Louisiana apparently no longer thinks his party is stupid. He reused lengthy portions of a January speech on Friday at CPAC, but left out the most controversial remarks, like calling his own party "stupid."
Greg Austin on China's hackers, Matthew Yglesias on an expensive airline merger, Jamelle Bouie on sequestration backfiring on the GOP, George Packer on Walmart and the payroll tax, and Hadley Freeman on Hilary Mantel and the media's royal-industrial complex.
Daniel Larison on Republicans holding up Hagel, Ruth Marcus on Ted Cruz, Geoffrey Till on Asia's "arms race," Paula Dwyer on merger mania, and William Finnegan on the GOP's immigration fix.
Just when you thought Rove had taken back control of his own war on the Tea Party, the outspoken Iowa congressman sent a fundraising email to supporters today that, in very clear language, says Rove is trying to "bully" him out of running in 2014.
Michelle Rhee on her school-voucher conversion, Ramesh Ponnuru on the hidden cost of reusable grocery bags, Joe Nocera on the N.C.A.A., Evgeny Morozov on Wikipedia and social change, and Jonathan Chait on the GOP electoral scheme.
Bill Richardson on immigration reform, Michael Tomasky on Republican efforts to attract minority voters, Andrew Ross Sorkin on the next head of the SEC, Jeffrey Toobin on activist judges, and Tim Padgett on Brazil's nightclub fire.
In a 25-minute-long speech billed as a "rebuttal" to President Obama's strikingly well received second inaugural address, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said our government "is a failure."
Facebook announced Thursday that CEO Mark Zuckerberg will host his first political fundraiser at his home for... New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Is the world's most famous young exec actually a conservative wolf in a Silicon Valley hoodie? Time for an investigation.
Margaret Carlson on Hillary Clinton's Benghazi testimony, Susan Crawford on speeding up America's Internet, Alex Pareene on electoral vote rejiggering, E.J. Dionne on Obama's Reaganisms, and Amy Davidson on child-abuse victims.
The New Jersey governor went off on the House leadership in a nuclear press conference Wednesday afternoon, but perhaps more damning than Christie's harsh words for all of Congress was who he blamed for the bill: House Speaker John Boehner.
Paul Krugman on the post-cliff trouble, Hendrik Hertzberg on the House, Amy Butte on the stock market's opacity, Doyle McManus on drones, and Nathan Brown on Morsi.
GOP leaders are already hinting at possible candidates for president in 2016. One exhausted commenter wonders if perpetual presidential jockeying has become an existentialist nightmare.
Jonathan Freedland on Gaza, Jacey Eckhart on military marriages, Daniel Gross on the payroll tax, Christina Larson on Hu Jintao, and Eugene Robinson on Republicans' listening problem.
Ezra Klein on tax reform, Alex Pareene on Republican rebranding, Amy Davidson on military sex scandals, Emer O'Toole on Savita, and Stephen Gandel on Goldman Sachs.
When Barack Obama won reelection by a wide margin, a lot of people thought it spelled the end for Karl Rove. The GOP's most dominant money man over the last decade was toast, everyone thought, but Rove is digging in his heels and preparing for a fight. He's not going anywhere.
Noreen Malone on Megyn Kelly, Seth Mandel on Republican governors, Margaret Carlson on female senators, Jay Ulfelder on forecasting world politics, Damien Ma on China's last ten years.
Juan Reyes, a former aide to Rudy Giuliani, has taken his campaign to a semi-hilarious, desperate low by sending out homophobic mailers which attack New York City Councilman Eric Ulrich and his wife for having dinners with gay men, and being nice to lesbian New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
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Sher Valenzuela basically embodies everything the Republican party wants from its "We Built This" narrative: She's a small business-owning Latina running for office in Delaware, according to The New Yorker's John Cassidy. The only problem is, her company has taken some $17 million in federal loans and contracts and Reddit is all over it.
There's a hot little rumor out there that Florida Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll, a GOP rising star, had an intra-office affair with a woman, which is totally false because, according to Carroll, she's not single or bad-looking enough to be a lesbian.
Dead. Kaput. Dunzo. The Buffett Rule, which would have raised taxes on the U.S. millionaires and was supported by 60 percent of Americans, died in the Senate yesterday. But that won't stop Republicans and Obama from using it as a political tool.
Cartoonist Tony Auth on the Republican party.
A phrase that keeps coming up this Republican primary season is "war on women." But what's interesting in the conversations about a so-called "war on women" is that women do not seem to be having it.
Maybe the GOP (or more specifically, certain members of the party) returned to the '50s in just one day, but the rest of us haven't. Beyond the obvious social and cultural shifts of the last 60 years, there is one major factor: the Internet.
A couple GOP strategists, Ari Fleischer and Nicholas Thompson, have some words of advice on how best to attack the president: stick to branding him a flip-flopper and skip the personal critiques because people actually like the president as a person.
There are two things that political conspiracy e-mail forwards have in common: Conservatives and senior citizens.
Every afternoon The Atlantic Wire highlights the viral video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
The other day The New York Times suggested Romney had raised more than Obama, today the Washington Post's clearing things up.
When offered support, Republican state Senate candidate Cindy Golding hesitated to accept
The Republican candidate has delivered his first major policy address
A new poll from Rasmussen finds the Texas governor with 29 percent of the vote
He says the network just was trying to score points with media elites
Cartoonist Tom Toles on party relations post-Debt Ceiling
Massachusetts Republican tells Boston area radio station he'd vote for Reid's bill
Somalian famine, Amazon tax dodges, and the decline of the West
The social media giant is making an effort to reach out to Republican party candidates
So says former personal assistant and Yoko Ono lawsuit target Fred Seaman
Reggie Brown defends act, says it ended due to time constraints
"It's none of your business!"
At 19 percent in the Rasmussen survey she still trails frontrunner Romney by 14 points
Presidential debate or game show?
Cartoonist Tony Auth on whether the GOP's key campaign points are yet to come
How much will the lesser-known candidates pile on Mitt Romney?
After a public outcry, the party cut a couple of checks and told journalists to go home
Santorum, Pawlenty, pizza baron--Obama can take them all
The pundits are not optimistic (again) about Mitt Romney's presidential run
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