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Intersectionality doesn't help when you’re trying to build a coalition.

Woke progressives have created a permanent storm of superiority and conceit.

New numbers speak to Nixon’s growing strength—but so does her campaign strategy.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio again refused to endorse his former boss, Hillary Clinton. He made the comments this morning on CBS:

In 1969, a young Hillary Rodham was chosen to give a commencement address to the graduating class of Wellesley College, and she used the occasion to deliver some fairly radical remarks. She spoke of her generation feeling “that our prevailing, acquisitive, and competitive corporate life, including…

President Obama is trying to rally his supporters around his trade bill. But, as the email subject line suggests, he understands there are many critics of the bill: "I understand the skepticism about this."

The Philadelphia Inquirer has a smart op-ed about the Garland attack by former federal prosecutor George Parry. He points out the left’s agonized reaction to Garland—We’re for free speech! But these people using free speech are horrible and hateful!

Bill de Blasio ran Hillary Clinton's New York Senate race in 2000. But he's not yet ready to endorse his former boss for president of the United States. He made the comments this morning in an interview with NBC's Chuck Todd:

Republicans have been tripping over one another to slag President Obama’s tax proposal, made in his State of the Union address, to repeal the step-up in basis on inherited wealth and use the revenue it would generate to increase the child tax credit and pay for free community college. While it’s…

It is a common enough thing in party politics. The candidate with the most money, best organization, most favorable press, etc., is a disappointment to the purists of the party. Winning isn’t enough.  What does it profit a party if it gains the whole world and loses (in the present case) its…

Tom Harkin, the top Democrat in Iowa, tells ABC News that he has serious questions about where Hillary Clinton stands on the issues:

Speaking at a recent town hall meeting, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont tried to have it both ways on Gaza.  Wrong, he said, to shoot rockets. But Israel overreacted. This is the progressive equivocation.  The precise, moderate, and acceptable reaction by a nation that his under rocket attack…

Ralph Nader is exasperated.  Not an unusual condition for him.  But the cause of his frustration, this time, is not GM (the company he helped destroy) or Al Gore (the presidential candidate he helped defeat) or any of the usual suspects.  In this case, Citizen Nader is peeved at fellow progressive,…

The IRS commissioner said today at a Capitol Hill hearing that the IRS's internal review doesn't contradict the inspector general's report that says progressives weren't targeted by the federal agency:

Earlier this month, President Obama released his fiscal year 2014 budget, which calls for $1.1 trillion in higher taxes over the next decade, cuts of $400 billion from Medicare and Medicaid, and alterations to Social Security’s benefit rate worth about $130 billion. 

College basketball player Kevin Ware's compound fracture in Sunday's Elite Eight game has gained widespread media attention. And now a Kentucky group is trying to capitalize off the Louisville player's injury. 

Tomorrow at the White House, President Barack Obama will bring in "progressive and labor leaders" for an immigration discussion. He'll also be meeting with "business leaders" to discuss the same topic.

MSNBC host Chuck Todd says President Obama's Second Inaugural Address is about moving the country toward liberalism:

The boss made the case over the weekend that the payroll tax should not be forgotten. Likewise, Ross Douthat writes:

A website called 90days90reasons.com went online this summer, after the writer Dave Eggers got worried about the diminishing enthusiasm for Barack Obama among people like him. Eggers is a hipster, I guess you’d call him. He lives in San Francisco. He’s best known as the author of A Heartbreaking…

Matt Continetti, writing at the Washington Free Beacon:

The Daily Show explores whether there is class division at the Occupy Wall Street encampment:

Big Business Progressives, from TR to ObamaThe Triumph of Conservatism, By Gabriel Kolko

Big Business Progressives, from TR to Obama

Big Business Progressives, from TR to Obama

Tax Day 2011 comes in the middle of President Obama’s push for raising taxes to tackle deficit spending. The president’s budget calls for raising both taxes and deficits. But last week, Obama said that we need to reduce deficits, and he announced his intention, as he put it, “to reduce spending in…

Progressives may have decided that businessmen and libertarian political benefactors David and Charles Koch are the latest harbingers of the vast right-wing conspiracy, but they could be shocked to learn that several Koch Industries subsidiaries have been working closely and productively with…the…

Though Egyptian state TV has announced Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, it is unclear what the mass revolt rocking Egypt has in store for that ancient nation’s future. But what is clear is that the momentous events in Cairo--and, indeed, the massive tsunami of people-power engulfing the entire…