David Dayen

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With a strong Democratic challenger to his Senate seat—and President Obama vetting an Iowa judge for Antonin Scalia’s Supreme Court seat—the Iowa senator is starting to crack.

The activist group Color for Change charges that the CBC PAC serves corporations, not African Americans.

This is how big business fights government regulations—from the inside.

Alabama's longtime Republican senator is fending off a Super Tuesday primary challenge—by bashing his own Wall Street benefactors.

Let he who has never made an incorrect economic forecast cast the first stone.

Non-stop electioneering inevitably overshadows our existing government.

The Democratic Party's un-democratic nightmare is unlikely to unfold—but if it did, this summer's convention could make Chicago 1968 look like a picnic.

Who else is in the market for a billionaire with a bipartisan fig leaf covering his plutocratic agenda?

Sanders Democrats like Nevada's Lucy Flores aim to amplify the Vermont senator's uncompromising message in Washington—and move the party in a populist direction.

Pushing big ideas can lead to tangible results, in ways that cautious centrism cannot.

Republican candidates can’t be bothered with the mass contamination of an American city—not when the public is potentially, hypothetically endangered by ISIS.

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton don't agree on financial reform. Whose side will voters take?

Thousands of Democrats want the DNC chair to resign. Populist Timothy Canova has another idea.

Hillary Clinton, by contrast, only wants to tinker.

The public might be moving left, but the Democratic and Republican parties are not.

It's another boon to Republicans’ long-term project to shrink the government to a bathroom-drowning size.

How would they handle our divided government better than Obama has?

Financial crises always result in a far-right political bump, a new study finds. But Democrats made this one worse.