Dick Polman

Of all the bad jobs in America – garbage collector, toll booth worker, septic tank cleaner – maybe the worst is GOP leader. G ...

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Why does MSNBC indulge Al Sharpton by giving him a show? And the documente ...

So here we are again, teetering on the edge of another political precipice. President Obama’s ...

On the cusp of the ’16 presidential cycle, we’re already entering the season of delusion, when random people get it into thei ...

On Fox News yesterday, the usual gang was fulminating about Obamacare consultant Jonathan Gruber when all of a sudden, out of nowhere, so ...

For a primer on what can happen when a right-wing ideologue runs rampant with an economic experiment, check out the sorry state of Kansas ...

For years, Republican climate change deniers have essentially said, “We can’t do a darn thing about this global crisis that d ...

Consider these quotes: Democrat Tip O’Neill famously said, “All politics is local.” Republican Karl Rove presciently sa ...

Every once in a while something good happens, something that restores one’s faith in humanity. So put your hands together for the v ...

  On Saturday, when President Obama named federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch as his new attorney general, I knew it was only a ...

If you haven’t OD’d yet on the GOP’s midterm tsunami, join me in sifting the most interesting factoids. These 15 ...

If the newly empowered Republicans start claiming that they’ve won an ideological mandate to move America rightward, there’s ...