President Ronald Reagan. By Robert Parry The real struggle confronting the United States is not between the Right and the Left in any traditional sense, but between those who believe in reality and those who are entranced by unreality. It is a battle that is testing whether ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

[liveblog] NPR is calling Vermont for Senator Bernie Sanders - a big victory for progressive politics in America. [liveblog]Our live blogging system is again giving us trouble - should be coming at you with poll stats/photos/insights asap! Arrived at NPR and have just been ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In his battle to remain relevant, Donald Trump is continuing to pump the 'Birther' nonsense by giving the President a deal that he supposedly cannot refuse. The ego maniacal Real Estate developer declared that he would be giving a 'major announcement' today that would ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

Say what you want about the President, the mans temperament is nothing short of astonishing. The current crisis in Libya has again demonstrated the difference between Obama and Romney.  One is a world class leader with a seriously cool head and the other a third rate buffoon ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

I hate to say this, but Gingrich's evisceration of John King last night on CNN was entirely justified. In response to a question about his treatment of his ex wife (he apparently asked her for an open relationship), Gingrich shot back with the following: I think the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Another Republican bites the dust, and sadly the only sane one in the field other that Mitt Romney: Jon M. Huntsman Jr. will announce Monday that he is ending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination and endorsing Mitt Romney, narrowing the field and erasing a ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

According to Pat Buchanan, African Americans can trace all their problems back to liberalism. Incapable of thinking for themselves, they "Bought a lot of liberal propaganda on the liberal plantation." And yes, that is a direct quote. Watch (and gasp) below: Visit msnbc.com for ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Not torture when America does it Andrew Sullivan on the radical mindset of the Republican Party: It can only think in doctrines, because the alternative is living in a complicated, global, modern world they both do not understand and also despise. Taxes are therefore always ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

There's much talk of Obama not having the numbers to get a second term, but according to history, it's just that - talk. Here's an interesting chart looking at previous President's gallup ratings and whether they got a second term (via Andrew Sullivan): According to history at ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Andrew Sullivan has long urged progressives and the Left to cut Obama some slack when it comes to confronting the increasingly nihilistic GOP, arguing that the President is engaged in a tactical endurance match, not a sprint. He writes: They keep arguing that the president who ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018