Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right.

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.