Senate
2/19/2010 11:51 PM ET
On Friday's Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, Newsweek contributor Jerry Adler was shown reciting a poem in which he lamented all the agenda items that are unpassable because of the Senate filibuster ...
2/17/2010 12:51 PM ET
You don't say: "G.O.P. Dream of Gaining Senate Control Faces Significant Hurdles," reads Adam Nagourney's latest political memo. But just two months ago no one was even talking about such a thing. ...
1/27/2010 3:42 PM ET
When the ACORN scandal broke, the Times dragged its feet for six days before issuing a story on the devastating footage from conservative activist James O'Keefe, who caught on video the left-wing ...
1/26/2010 3:26 PM ET
Monica Davey lays out the Tea Party/conservative case against Mark Kirk, a moderate Republican Senate candidate in Illinois. Will the movement's assumed threat to establishment Republicans ...
1/25/2010 11:53 AM ET
Strangely, Ted Kennedy is not mentioned in a story about sexism in Mass. politics. Reporter Katie Zezima instead wonders if Mass. voters knew Martha Coakley was a woman, since she "never mentioned ...
1/21/2010 3:38 PM ET
The Times points out four gaffes made by Democrat Martha Coakley during her losing campaign to Republican Scott Brown. So why didn't the Times mention them during the actual campaign?
1/21/2010 1:21 PM ET
Congressional reporter Carl Hulse sees the bright side for the Democrats, who just might turn this crushing defeat into an eventual victory: "Amid the day's gloom, Democrats saw opportunity as ...
1/21/2010 12:15 PM ET
Don't blame Obama - all these Democratic losses are just about state issues: "The voters of Massachusetts were definitely angry about taxes, although the ones they seemed most ticked off about ...
1/21/2010 11:49 AM ET
The paper's political profile writer Mark Leibovichmaintains his usual pro-Democratic double standard: "[Scott Brown] strives for 'total discipline' but can be prone to curious public statements ...
1/20/2010 2:47 PM ET
Political reporter Adam Nagourney (mostly) refrains from sugarcoating another Democratic loss.
