Republicans appear positioned for strong results in three hard-fought elections Tuesday. But isolated, off-year contests aren’t always reliable indicators of what ... More »

The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama. The ... More »

Tangipahoa Parish President Gordon Burgess said Bardwell’s views were not consistent with his or those of the local government. But as an elected official, Bardwell ... More »

Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine) is risking a shot at becoming the top Republican on an influential Senate committee by backing Democratic healthcare legislation, according to ... More »

In the hallowed tradition of the tobacco and energy industries, the health insurance industry has commissioned a report (pdf) projecting doom and despair for those who seek ... More »

“I’d rather have company,” she said of her latest threatened defection, with a rueful laugh. “But it’s a different political world we’re ... More »

1). The odds have dropped that some sort of “bipartisan” consensus will become the final template for a bill. That has reduced the ability of Republicans to tube a ... More »

“[I]t didn’t take long the next day for the reality to set in that not much about the game had really changed. "Every day,” Senate Finance Committee ... More »

While the month of August clearly knocked the White House back on its heels, as Congressional town hall-style meetings exposed Americans’ unease with an overhaul, the ... More »

Somehow, though, health reform is not dead. Despite all of the setbacks and all of the missed opportunities—despite this train wreck of a month—the situation ... More »

Fifty-six to 60 percent of people in government-run Medicare rate it a 9 or 10 on a 10-point scale. In contrast, only 40 percent of those enrolled in private insurance rank ... More »

The police began to piece together a disturbing profile of Willingham. Born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, in 1968, he had been abandoned by his mother when he was a baby. His ... More »

But Mr. DeMint distances himself from both parties. As he put it, “None of us wants the people who ran cash for clunkers or who cleaned up after Katrina to be between us and ... More »

Something rather remarkable happened on Tuesday’s Morning Joe. Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York pointed out that the health insurance industry has no clothes, and Joe ... More »

Washington’s punditocracy is in mourning over the death of right-wing columnist Robert Novak, with many warm remembrances about his outsized personality and his supposed ... More »

The Obama administration has launched a new Web site to battle what it calls “wild rumors” about the health care reform plans being pushed through Congress ... More »