President Obama’s new budget attempts to define a progressive alternative to conservative demands for a politics of austerity. Having just returned from a gathering of…
Writing for the Daily Beast, Will Marshall argues that Obama is in a strong position to challenge the new Congress to pass a fiscal grand…
I won’t bore readers with much about what they already know: Obama won; Democrats increased their margins in the Senate; Republicans lost House seats but…
Lindsay Lewis writes in the Daily Beast that the real corruption in Congress is facilitated by congressional staff whose main goal is to keep their…
At CNN, Will Marshall argues that the GOP’s real problem is ideology: Republicans are consoling themselves with the claim that President Barack Obama didn’t win…
Despite Mitt Romney’s belated October dash toward the political center, moderates have lined up solidly behind President Obama. Centrist voters put Obama over the top…
Will Marshall, in The Washington Monthly, argues why Republican Party extremism is undeserving of the American public’s support. Whatever happens, it’s a safe bet the…
The big day is finally upon us, and while most signs are pointing to a very narrow popular-vote and perhaps more comfortable electoral-vote win for…
Will Marshall explains how Obama should speak to America’s pragmatic political center in his closing argument in Politico: The last time Barack Obama sought my…
With eleven days left before November 6, the general perception is that the presidential contest is even, though most formal prediction models continue to give…