The subsidy portion of health reform would cost around a trillion dollars over the next decade. In all the plans currently on the table, this expense would be offset with a combination of cost savings elsewhere and additional taxes, so that there ...

We are expected to hold our breath. Excitement is building. Or not, as the case may be. Will Bob Woodward's latest book bring down or bolster the administration? What are the bets?

Andrew Sullivan quotes a passage about nailing the real torturers. The problem with the pictures of torture, this writer says, is that they tend to stir up rage against the low-level guys doing the torture rather than their more guilty bosses.

The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless insurance fell more than expected last week to a 10-month low, government data showed on Thursday, pointing to a gradual improvement in the labor market.Initial claims for state unemployment...

... If you're a Chief-of-Staff for a conservative Democrat in Congress, you have two relevant data points to look at from Tuesday: Virginia, which is undoubtedly a little scary, and NY-23, which ought to be rather relieving. Certainly, there were a...

Analyzing the conviction of 24 American intelligence agents in an Italian court yesterday, Scott Horton makes the key point that the Italian court shows far greater judicial independence in Italy that we now have in the US, a nation which once took...

...Deficit-phobia has quickly congealed into the latest CW. You can see it in editorials ...., in what the talking heads say, even in supposedly objective news reporting. Not a day goes by without my reading some assertion that “markets are...

... In Virginia, while the president’s 2009 approval rating was 5 points less than his 2008 voting result, the 2009 electorate was also far more conservative than last year’s. Besides being far older and whiter than in 2008, the voters in...