Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

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

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.

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

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

The 2004 presidential election that saw George W. Bush win with 51 percent of the vote was the last one Republicans will ever win with the overwhelmingly white and male coalition they have now.