BY SUSAN ESTRICH It seems hard to believe that the election was only three short weeks ago, and that even as the results were coming in proving Nate Silver [the much maligned New York Times blogger] right and the pillars of conservatism [Dick Morris, George Will and, of course, Karl Rove] completely wrong, Republicans thought […]

BY SHARON MARTIN Children are better off if they have two parents, whether it’s two mothers, two fathers, or a father and a mother. Raising...

BY FROMA HARROP Conservatives never much liked Social Security. It’s a wildly popular government program that’s totally solvent until 2033. It will be easily fixable and by then may not need fixing at all. Doesn’t quite fit with the government-can’t-do-anything-right talking point. Then there’s the Social Security Trust Fund, a nice hunk of change invested […]

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER My friend, the late L.J. Davis, once described the American political situation as a “Slow Riot.” That was, perhaps, 20 years...

BY JOE CONASON Hearing so much chatter about “change” in the Republican Party, the innocent voter might believe that the Republicans had learned important lessons from their stinging electoral defeat. On closer examination, however, the likelihood of real change appears nil because the party’s leaders and thinkers can cite so many excuses to remain utterly […]