Politics Archive
Archives for September 2015


If Obama had said the same thing, he’d have risked being labeled a socialist.


A lot more people are going on the hajj now than used to — and that’s making deadly accidents, like Thursday’s stampede, nearly inevitable.


Even Rush Limbaugh finds Edward Klein difficult to believe.


Francis wouldn’t need to say this in most of Europe: “The Golden Rule also reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development.”


The pope challenged Democrats as well as Republicans to welcome refugees.


There’s a huge controversy over his legacy.


The real reason Boeing is opening a factory in China — it’s not the Export-Import Bank.


A cautionary tale about the importance of quality over quantity.


People laughed when Facebook paid $1 billion for the social networking site. They shouldn’t have.


Pope Francis became the first pontiff to deliver an address to a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday.


The speech is expected to tackle the refugee crisis, the environment, the death penalty, and other issues.


High rents in Silicon Valley and San Francisco have led Uber to open an office in Oakland.


The Super PAC backing Fiorina has released a web ad lionizing her for the forceful — but also inaccurate — repudiation of Planned Parenthood she delivered at last week’s GOP primary debate. Regardless of the truth, the ad should be a political win.




“I think that we are in a weird place in the world when the following things are considered political.”