Stephen Colbert is at first glance an odd replacement for CBS talk-show host David Letterman When he drops the know-nothing character of the soon-to-end The Colbert Report as he will for his new show Colbert is sincere and quite passionate about social-justice issues Patrick R Manning explor

What is democracy without people waiting in line for hours?

The New York Times suggests that President Barack Obama rsquo s popularity with younger Americans is not enough to inspire a new generation of candidates for public office nbsp Jason Horowitz reports that 70 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds consider community service to be ldquo honorable rdquo b

This was sort of a Women rsquo s Week in American politics The Paycheck Fairness Act got its day in the U S Senate but couldn rsquo t get the 60-vote supermajority to overcome a Republican filibuster And new signs of Hillary Clinton rsquo s inevitability as the next Democratic nominee who else c

The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom from our politics blogger Robert D. Sullivan

Vox com the new journalism website headed by ex-Washington Post writer Ezra Klein formally opened for business on Sunday with a lead story mission statement called ldquo How Politics Makes Us Stupid rdquo It rsquo s a clever way to challenge and flatter readers at the same time Thousands of pe

This week the Supreme Court weakened limits on campaign contributions and mega campaign contributor Charles G Koch wrote a Wall Street Journal column about all the hurt he rsquo s suffered as a fighter for ldquo free society rdquo Koch accuses his critics of ldquo character assassination rdqu

We rsquo re seven months from the 2014 midterms giving us time to cycle through a few dozen theories on what the election will be about The Republicans still hope to capitalize on discontent with the Affordable Care Act but TPM rsquo s Dylan Scott wonders whether this ldquo election elixir rdquo

The U S population shifted away from small towns and toward major metropolitan areas from 2012 to 2013 according to data released by the Census Bureau on Thursday The annual Census report is a reminder that the Republican Party which has been doing worse and worse in big cities needs to move to

There rsquo s got to be a study somewhere comparing styles of playing Monopoly to political party affiliation I can imagine a lot of grant proposals after this week rsquo s announcement that Hasbro is polling players on which ldquo house rule rdquo to add to Monopoly instruction manuals nbsp The