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Rep. Steve Stockman: “President Obama is begging to be impeached”

Prachi Gupta
The Congressman seems to really believe this is the President's political strategy, based on WND's report

House GOP’s border conundrum: Will new leadership be able to pass a bill?

Jim Newell
New majority leader Kevin McCarthy and whip Steve Scalise are wrangling votes for a border bill. It won't be easy

Cruz-ifying the border debate: How Ted Cruz is yet again giving Boehner headaches

Jim Newell
As the House unveils border legislation, Ted Cruz walks across the Capitol and urges conservatives to scuttle it

Ted Cruz’s revolting power play: Here’s what’s really behind his nativist nonsense

Heather Digby Parton
While much of America may laugh at the Tea Party lunatic, here's how he's secretly setting much of the DC agenda

Volunteer villain: How Ted Cruz’s hard-line immigration stance helps Democrats

Simon Maloy
Ted Cruz becomes the face of anti-immigrant sentiment at the precise moment Democrats needed a political foil

Japanese nuclear plant deemed safe, nears restart

Mari Yamaguchi

The new American exceptionalism: An imperial state unable to impose its will

Tom Engelhardt
While the corporate sector flourishes, the U.S. government is incapable of dictating policy at home or abroad

Backfiring on Boehner: The many ways GOP’s lawsuit could burn him

Simon Maloy
In suing the president over Obamacare, Boehner could be setting himself up for political and policy failures

See how they run: The 2016 presidential checklist

Calvin Woodward

Watch Brian Williams nail the reason for Washington’s baby boom

Jenny Kutner
Well, now we know what D.C. residents were doing during last year's government shutdown

GOP’s magical impeachment epiphany: “Wasting everyone’s time” is bad!

Jim Newell
Republican leaders say impeachment isn't worth it since it would die in the Senate. Here's their new civics lesson

A party that won’t be saved: GOP dead-enders and “reform conservatives” duke it out

Simon Maloy
Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin teamed up to show "Reformicons" just how tough reforming the GOP will be

Erick Erickson diagnoses Boehner — and a “stunt” to keep his job

Jim Newell
The speaker's plan to sue Obama is the latest example of him doing his "job." Here's what that really means

Erick Erickson slams John Boehner for latest “political stunt”

Elias Isquith
The leading conservative pundit says the House speaker's plan to sue the president is a "waste of taxpayer dollars"

GOP’s fatal “reform” dilemma: Building a movement from discredited ideologies

Simon Maloy
Marco Rubio and right-wing "reformicons" want to "reform" conservatism, but also stay true to stagnant dogma

Charles Murray’s new disgrace: “Bell Curve” author has a “liberal” obsession

Heather Digby Parton
Infamous racial "theorist" has a problem with "progressives." But here's what's really behind the disingenuous game

A left-wing Tea Party may be closer than you think

Elias Isquith
A few liberal pols get all the press, but the real work of movement-building is happening in the states

How Ted Cruz and a GOP Senate could make our terrible politics worse

Simon Maloy
If Republicans take the Senate, we can expect a return to crisis governance. Here's why

Here are the best parts of the New Yorker’s long profile of Ted Cruz

Elias Isquith
The clear takeaway: All that red meat he throws to the GOP base? He means every word

How Rupert Murdoch created the world’s newest climate change villain

Alexander White
Australia was once a leader on climate action. Thanks to American conservative powerhouses, that's no longer true

A fissure in the dam of political reality: How Eric Cantor’s defeat foreshadows the coming apocalypse

Andrew O'Hehir
For what could be a portrait of our own societal collapse, look to Robert Pattinson's dystopian drama "The Rover"

GOP masochists vie to be next hated majority leader

Simon Maloy
Conservatives turned on Eric Cantor, and they'll turn on his successor too. Here's the punishment coming their way

Tea Party eats its own: Why Cantor’s right-wing obstruction wasn’t enough

Simon Maloy
Eric Cantor is as conservative as they come and it wasn't enough for the far-right fringe. Here's what it all means

Eric Cantor got what he deserved: A political fraud’s stunning demise

Joan Walsh
Immigration foes killed the majority leader, as they’ll kill the GOP. It couldn’t happen to a more swell guy
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