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The Internet as a toy with a tin ear and a wooden tongue.

No single person bears more responsibility for how much Americans hate Congress than Newt Gingrich. Here’s what he did to it.

These new political monsters have let loose an avalanche of scorched-earth, negative campaign ads—and enriched TV stations in the process.

Roars of applause for executions at the GOP debate, official approval of torture, barbaric prison conditions, obstruction of aid to storm victims and children in need—is our nation descending into barbarism?

Why do the media believe that they must behave like idiots in order to be “fair” to the Republicans and their idiotic ideas?

Read the full text of Senator Bernie Sanders's statement to Congress on the balancing the budget.

There are some seriously progressive initiatives underway in the 112th Congress, and they deserve more attention than they're getting.

The liars and lunatics serve as a smoke screen for the conservative war on the poor and the middle class.

John Nichols on the AOL/Huffington Post merger, Ari Berman on the Democratic Leadership Council's demise and Riddhi Shah on invisible government benefits

Tim Wu and Kevin Kelly speak for a new technocracy, and their new books epitomize its myopia, libertarianism and frustration with the political system.