Yesterday rocker Ted Nugent announced that he would attend President Obama's State of the Union speech -- and then hold a press conference afterward to comment.

Nugent will attend at the invitation of Republican Congressman Steve Stockman of Texas. But the message he sends is toxic for the Republican...

There are two major pillars of Republican economic ideology.

First is "trickle down" economics -- the notion that if we allow the wealthiest two percent to accumulate more and more of the fruits of our economy, the benefits will "trickle down" to everyone else.

The second is fiscal austerity...

For years the NRA has struck terror into the hearts of many Members of Congress. The organization's officers and lobbyists purported to represent the interests and wishes of millions of American gun owners.

Members of Congress believed that negative NRA ratings -- and a flood of NRA money -- could...

Politico quotes conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer as saying that the "fiscal cliff" bill passed by the Congress last night was a "complete rout for Democrats" and '"complete surrender" for the GOP. That may be overstating the case, but there is little question that raising tax rates for top income earners...

Often, economic crises are caused by real physical problems - like draught, war, demography, or technological innovation that robs one economy of a competitive advantage over another.

Other times, economic crises result when asset bubbles burst, or financial markets collapse. That was the case of the Great Depression -...

The tragedy in Connecticut forces America to confront a simple question: Why should we allow easy access to a weapon of mass destruction just because it could conceivably be referred to as a "gun"?

I count myself among the many Americans who at various points in their lives have...

The odds are increasing that President Obama and the Democrats will rout the Republicans in the current battle over the "fiscal cliff."

I realize that all of the "wise men" of Washington are clamoring for a bi-partisan solution to fix the nation's deficit -- a "solution" that involves "shared sacrifice."...

To hear some pundits tell it, the Lame Duck budget battle is about the "unsustainable federal deficit," or "entitlement reform," or even "tax rates." These characterizations make it sound like a contest between two competing sets of policies and programs.

But underlying all of the policy-speak, the Lame...

Sunday's morning shows featured some astoundingly stupid comments from Republicans who claim to believe that on Election Day voters gave them a "mandate" to continue their attempts to obstruct President Obama's agenda.

Apparently some Republican pundits are still living in the same parallel universe that allowed them to convince themselves...

Tuesday's election was important for many reasons. Its outcome will certainly benefit millions and millions of people -- both in the United States and around the world. And President Obama's campaign will be remembered as one of the best-run political efforts in the history of American politics.

But beyond...

In 2000, our consulting firm helped put together a field operation in the South Florida Congressional race for a wonderful Democratic woman named Elaine Bloom.

We organized a terrific program -- great voter identification -- great get-out-the-vote. But in the end, Bloom lost by about 550 votes. They were...

My wife, Jan Schakowsky, and I are friends with a wonderful woman named Bea. Bea is now 95 years old. Bea was born in 1917.

She was born in a country where women couldn't vote. In some areas of the country, just fifty years before, slavery had been...

Au début de la semaine -alors qu'il faisait le tour du pays pour Barack Obama-, l'ancien Président Bill Clinton a remplacé au pied levé le Président pendant que ce dernier revenait à Washington pour superviser l'organisation du pays face à l'ouragan.

Cela semble être le contexte approprié...

Au début de la semaine -alors qu'il faisait le tour du pays pour Barack Obama-, l'ancien Président Bill Clinton a remplacé au pied levé le Président pendant que ce dernier revenait à Washington pour superviser l'organisation du pays face à l'ouragan.

Cela semble être le contexte approprié...

Earlier this week -- as he was barnstorming the country for Barack Obama -- former President Bill Clinton subbed in for the president as Obama flew back to Washington to oversee the country's response to a major hurricane.

That would seem an appropriate context to ask the question, why...

As Election Day grows closer, some pundits seem almost breathless in their prediction that the Presidential election will be close. Well, of course it will be close. It has been obvious from the campaign's first day that it would be close. But there is overwhelming evidence that President Obama will...

The reason that Mitt Romney's condescending comments about the "47 percent" have done such damage to his candidacy is simple. As Republican consultant Alex Castellanos said in Tuesday's Washington Post: "The only thing in politics that is worse than voters deciding they don't like you is when voters...

The events of the last 48 hours have made it indisputably clear: America cannot trust Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan with our national security.

This morning's Huffington Post headline summarized what it called, "The Verdict: Most Craven and Ill-Advised Move...Not Worthy of A President... Bungle... Utter Disaster... Not...

Going into the Republican Convention, Mitt Romney had one major political mission: to convince swing voters that he isn't just the guy who fired their brother in law -- that he understands their lives and is on their side.

Given his record as Governor of Massachusetts -- 47th among...

After he lost the 1992 presidential election to Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush reportedly confided that one of his major political problems was "the vision thing."

The first President Bush did not appear to voters to have a sense of where he wanted to take the...