Jamelle Bouie

If you’re a liberal, this new analysis from National Journal will confirm your suspicions: the media cares a lot more about deficits than it does unemployment: National Journal compiled counts of articles that mention one of the words in their headline or first sentences in the five largest newspapers in the country by print circulation […]

Writing in The Washington Post, Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway note the Obama administration’s apparent disregard for the War Powers Act: This week, the War Powers Act confronts its moment of truth. Friday will mark the 60th day since President Obama told Congress of his Libyan campaign. According to the act, that declaration started a […]

**Paul Ryan** has finally made the [announcement](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55120.html), and he is not running for Senate: >The 41-year-old House Budget Chairman told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Tuesday morning that he would not seek the U.S. Senate seat now held by Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl, saying “it would it make no sense to leave where I am […]

Economic recovery and higher revenue has left California with a significantly improved budget outlook: After months of doomsday scenarios and apocalyptic warnings about cuts to California schools, parks and the police, the news from Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday was nothing short of startling: California is now expected to see $6.6 billion more in revenue […]

It’s official: Donald Trump has decided not to run for president: “After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency,” he said in a statement. “This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top […]

It might have something to do with writing articles like this, “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women“: Africans on average have higher levels of testosterone than other races, and testosterone, being an androgen (male hormone), affects the physical attractiveness of men and women differently. Men with higher levels of testosterone have […]

In other Newt Gingrich news, the newly minted presidential hopeful isn’t too thrilled with Paul Ryan‘s plan for Medicare reform: “I’m against Obamacare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change,” Mr. Gingrich said on the NBC program “Meet the Press.” “I don’t think right-wing social engineering is […]

Ron Paul wasn’t the only Republican presidential candidate to display his regressive racial politics this weekend; on Friday, while addressing the Georgia Republican Party convention, Newt Gingrich called President Obama “the most successful food stamp president in modern American history”: Gingrich sought to lay blame for the recession, as well as the economic and social […]

Along with [Mike Huckabee](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/mike-huckabee-history-cartoons_n_861184.html), the Tea Party Patriots are trying to reach out to America’s youth with a wildly distorted version of the nation’s history: >As part of the “adopt a school” campaign, TPP and its members are advising school officials to rely on lesson plans, DVDs, and a package of other course materials created […]