Politics Archive
Archives for August 2015


He needs just four more votes in the Senate out of 14 undecided Democrats.


Not a lot of New Hampshirites are backing Lincoln Chafee. But even fewer are backing Larry Lessig.


The shooting was recorded on live video.


The war on drugs fundamentally changed the scope of the federal prison system.


The Washington Post’s fact checker needs to check his facts.


It wasn’t just New Orleans that was hit.


Remembering an American tragedy and the hard lessons it taught us.


Letting Syrian refugees stay in Germany to apply for asylum will help thousands of vulnerable people. It’s also a step toward solving the European Union’s biggest crisis.


The disaster was as much human-caused as natural.


His foreign policy speech on Friday is a coming-out party for his new message.


The absurd law redefines sex trafficking to include acts that aren’t sex trafficking.


Campaign reform finally moves beyond the dead-end proposal to amend the Constitution, and Larry Lessig and Zephyr Teachout have something to do with that.


— and 9 more things to know to start the day.




The GOP donor class’s ideas are deeply unpopular. Trump has the cash to ignore them.