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Some politicians are involved in a type of “legal extortion” to get their hands on cash, with terms like the “tollbooth” and “milker bills” describing some of these practices.

The Right is still winning the big one: How the nation understands our biggest domestic problem.

Dick Cheney's new book about his life-saving heart transplant has drawn much fawning coverage. But little attention has gone to the hypocrisy of the ex-vice president accepting expensive government-funded …

All such shortsighted ideologies, be they of the Right or the Left, have proven unrealistic and so have failed. Unfortunately, they have wreaked havoc in the meantime.

In Australia, the fear is that the fires being battled by heroic public servants who got their funding cut were initially started by arsonists. In America, the arsonists are …

All such shortsighted ideologies have proven unrealistic, and so have failed. Unfortunately, they have wreaked havoc in the meantime.

Democrats still accept the GOP's parameters for the budget debate, and until they reject their framework, we are doomed to repeat our failures again and again.

Senator Ted Cruz declined taxpayer-funded coverage because of his wife's Cadillac policy.

Our real economic problem continues to be a dearth of good jobs along with widening inequality; the president must not surrender under this cease fire.

Rachel Maddow tells the history of the “Gephardt rule” that made raising the debt ceiling automatic with the budget to avoiding damaging default threats.