It's taken years to brew the toxic mix of hopelessness and rage, disenfranchisement and greed that erupted in Britain this week.

If we want to know why this abysmal debt deal happened, we have to look to the 2010 Congressional elections.

There are several explanations as to why Standard & Poor's downgraded the federal government's credit rating. None involve actual economics.

S&P downgraded the US credit rating because the GOP won’t raise taxes and played brinksmanship with the debt ceiling. But Romney, Bachmann et al. say it’s Obama’s fault. 

Mitt Romney is the Republican front-runner, but he isn’t as strong among Tea Party activists. 

Last weekend, two very different speeches on the future of the teaching profession made news.

Tim Pawlenty knows that his only route to the Republican nomination is by process of elimination, so he’s trying to eliminate Michele Bachmann. 

Despite playing a hugely damaging role in the 2009 financial collapse, credit rating agencies were a central player in the debt ceiling debate. When will Washington learn to ignore them?

Republican obstructionism is hurting Obama as much as the GOP’s hostage-taking negotiating strategy on the economy.

Although unknown to many liberals, Red State’s Erick Erickson is an exemplar of the new right-wing media activists pushing the GOP to extremes.