Where does Todd Akin get the idea that, when she’s raped, a “woman’s body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down?”
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New idea to prevent voter suppression
Washington Post opinion writer, Katrina vanden Heuvel suggests that the best way to protect voting rights and eliminate voter suppression is through a constitutional
Lawrence O’Donnell: Why liberals need to support conservative Democrats
Lawrence O’Donnell is an American political analyst, journalist, actor, producer, writer, and host of The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, a weeknight MSNBC opinion
Where’s the real Romney?
Remember in 2008 when the process of running for President seemed to drain John McCain of most of the qualities that had once made
Pollster asks: “If Todd Akin dropped out…”
As annoying as robo-pollsters can be, it’s often worth picking up the phone, answering the questions, and sticking with it until the end, because
Paul Ryan: Bad news for women’s rights
To most women, Paul Ryan’s ideas are pretty much the political equivalent of menstruating forever. But it seems like some new analysis of legislation
Will Romney and Ryan take America to war?
Since Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have so little experience with foreign affairs, it’s difficult to predict the direction of their foreign policy should
GOP middle class bamboozlement may be over
Instead of offering real solutions to social and economic problems, the GOP has used flag waving, gay bashing, abortion, prayer in schools, death panels,
DNC bails out of bailed-out Bank of America
The Democratic National Committee is moving its money. It’s taking its money out of the bailed-out Bank of America and putting it into union-owned
How refreshing: David Frum goes from conservative to semi-liberal
On his HBO show, Bill Maher usually arranges for one of his three guests to be a conservative. In one sense, he wants to