Stoking fear of newcomers on the day of the Pilgrims

Announcing that he will suspend the threat of deportation for about half of the nation rsquo s 11 million undocumented migrants President Barack Obama said ldquo our immigration system is broken and everybody knows it rdquo He could have taken out the word ldquo immigration rdquo and been ju

The 2012 election suggested that Republican candidates are handicapped by their party rsquo s paltry support in major cities for example Mitt Romney rsquo s 14 percent in Philadelphia effectively made it impossible for him to carry the state of Pennsylvania The 2014 election in which the Democra

The elections of 2014 brought infinite examples of political opponents talking right past each other.

Would unilateral action lead to more sweeping executive orders under a Republican president?

Jonathan Gruber did not really call the American people stupid He called them merciless and cruel The debate over the Affordable Care Act has not generated much evidence to contradict this view You may be sick of hearing about the sick but as Ebola hysteria subsides the ACA ldquo Obamacare rdq

Net neutrality is great, but Obama needs to address economic stagnation to get voters enthusiastic about Democratic Party.

Democrats are unified on major issues, leaving little opening for new insurgent candidates.

In 23 states, the GOP will control governor’s office, both houses of the legislature.

More thoughts to come but a striking pattern from Tuesday rsquo s election is how the Republicans made significant gains just about everywhere but in major urban counties You could call it a wave but it rsquo s also as if most of America stepped back from the big cities and academic enclaves that