Sarah P. Reynolds

We've tended to overestimate the political value of access to information, the idea that someone, if given free access to Wikipedia and The New York Times will then agitate for demo...

Lying is where you say something that you actually know is not true. Spinning is where you exaggerate the positive aspects of a situation and down play the negative aspects. If you ...

Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, elected as an Independent in 2006, has announced he will not run for a fifth term.

I can't believe that Arizona would even think about putting a firearm in the atmosphere of a college. I cannot start to tell you the level of really responsible thinking and shaping...

People may say it's symbolic but you know what, some good symbolism is what we need here. And the problem here in Washington is that people have come to the point where they don...

My desire to cut spending and reduce the size and role of government is not driven by polls or a series of check marks on a scorecard of how to win an election. I've simply had enough...

The problem has always been the same which is that the county spends more money than it takes in and what we have now is more than a decade of a lack of sustained tension to fixing th...

There's a certain proportion of adolescents who are very susceptible to the affects of marijuana and if they abuse it before the age of 17 or 18, they're very likely to begin having...

In this case it is at least legitimate to look at the possible connection between the surrounding political rhetoric and the act of a deranged and violent person. — James Fallows on ...

Every year there are deaths we remember and deaths we don't, and sometimes one or two we'll never forget. This year's notables were men and women, leaders from the top levels to the...

When you talk about integrating females or integrating the races, that was something that was visible...and I submit that it may actually be less of a disruptance, less upheaval in th...

On Sunday, the Huskies matched the record set by UCLA in the early 1970's for the longest win streak in NCAA basketball history. They play for the chance to possess that record outright on Tuesday.

Maybe you believe in making New Year's Resolutions, maybe you think they're for the birds. We hit the street (a busy Union Square on Saturday) to ask you about your resolutions for American Politics.

Here's what some of you had to say about it. What's your new year's political resolution? Let us know!

I think sometimes fighting for what you believe in is a value in and of itself, even if you don't get every single thing you want, at least you define the issues. In this case we kind...

The way to think about it is that construction workers pay taxes, public employee unions are paid through taxes, and that's a fundamental divide that I think is going to cause great...

I think if, as this plays out and plays all the way up to the Supreme Court, we just have conservative and liberal views of what government authority encompasses, that's a pretty dist...