I just love it when I see neoconservatives pushing story angles like this one: a new study from Express Scripts, the large pharmacy benefits-managing company, reveals something else that ought ...
With his white hair in characteristic disarray, Sen. Bernie Sanders is slouching on the couch in his office on the third floor of the Senate Dirksen Office Building between two brass-eagle themed...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/05/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-2016/
With President Barack Obama’s new budget proposal setting aside more than $400 million to combat violence against women, Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that the issue “cannot wait.�...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/05/obama-eyes-funding-to-combat-violence-against-women/
The Obama administration announced Wednesday it would allow consumers to keep health insurance plans that don’t meet the standards of the new health care reform law for an extra two years, the ...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/05/administration-extends-another-obamacare-deadline/
Speaking at an event at UCLA Wednesday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denied she drew a parallel between Russia’s recent actions in Ukraine and Nazi Germany at a fundraiser Tuesday....
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/05/clinton-walks-back-russia-nazi-comparison/
It’s tough being Pope Francis: one day he’s accidentally using vulgarities, and the next day everyone thinks he’s upending the church’s doctrine of marriage. The latest fuss about the Hol...
President Barack Obama called the Senate’s failure to confirm Debo Adegbile as the head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights division a “travesty” on Wednesday. With a final tally ...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/05/senate-obama-nominee-debo-adegbile-travesty/
Tempers flared during a House hearing on the IRS scandal Wednesday, as a top Democrat and Republican found themselves entangled in an impassioned dispute after former IRS official Lois Lerner ref...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/05/irs-scandal-hearing-house-argument-lerner/
Republican Rep. Dave Camp has heard the death rattle from his own party trying to kill three years of work he did to overhaul the nation’s tax code. But Camp, who chairs the House Ways and Mea...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/05/dave-camp-tax-reform-republican-congress/
“As Secretary of State John F. Kerry prepared to meet with his Russian counterpart in Paris, standoffs continued Wednesday between Russian and Ukrainian warships in this Crimean port with no si...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/05/morning-must-reads-march-5-2/
Texas faces a heated race for the governor’s office between Republican Greg Abbott and Democrat Wendy Davis, after the Lone Star State took to the polls Tuesday in the first political primar...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/05/wendy-davis-and-greg-abbott-to-vie-for-texas-governor/
Susan Collins is the only Republican Senator facing re-election in a state carried by Obama in 2012. Yet her Democratic challenger, Shenna Bellows, a former Maine American Civil Liberties Union d...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/04/maine-democrat-tries-to-make-marijuana-and-nsa-wedge-issues/
Senate majority leader Harry Reid stepped up his war of rhetoric against conservative billionaires and liberal bogeymen the Koch brothers on Tuesday, saying on the Senate floor that his Republica...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/04/harry-reid-republicans-are-addicted-to-koch/
Standing in front of two-dozen seniors at the Whispering Waters condos in St. Petersburg, Fla., Alex Sink made her pitch last month for why voters should send her to Congress in the coming specia...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/04/florida-special-election-women-alex-sink-bill-young/
The buildings over Institutskaya Street loomed ominously through the grey afternoon mist. High above and just days earlier, snipers had picked off the protesters one by one. They shot the people ...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/04/ukraine-kiev-john-kerry/
Tuesday marks the official beginning of the midterm elections, as Texas voters head to the polls to cast the first ballots of the 2014 primary campaigns. That milestone also marks the likely end ...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/04/steve-stockman-texas-senate-race-2014-midterms-lose/
If budgets are political documents, President Barack Obama’s latest offering is something akin to a partisan opus. That doesn’t mean it’s heading anywhere. Democrats in the Senate will not ...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/04/obama-budget-filled-with-political-messaging-2014/
“President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Tuesday described the crisis in Ukraine as the result of an ‘unconstitutional coup,’ and said that Russia reserved right to use force as ‘a last ...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/04/morning-must-reads-march-4-2/
As President Obama struggles to address the Russian military incursion in Crimea, he faces something of an international relations puzzle: How can he stop hostilities without the threat of hostil...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/03/ukraine-putin-obama-war-crimea/
Russia’s military move into the southern Ukraine creates a new crisis, as President Obama threatens President Putin with economic and diplomatic isolation. TIME’s Mark Halperin breaks down ...
https://swampland.time.com/2014/03/03/russian-roulette-in-the-crimea/