<!– Text Size Print Reprints –> Oh Lois Lerner, you say it best when you say nothing at all. As expected, Lerner, the head of the Internal Revenue Service’s tax-exempt office, pled the Fifth Amendment rather than testify today in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about her role in the targeting of conservative [...]
<!– Text Size Print Reprints –> While you were sleeping, Anthony Weiner was announcing his decision to run for mayor of New York City this year. Former Rep. Anthony Weiner is running for mayor of New York City. (AP photo) Now that the debate over whether or not he will run is over, the one [...]
<!– Text Size Print Reprints –> A few weeks back, we asked the Fix community to nominate the best state-based political reporters in each of the 50 states. This is your media. The response — on the blog, on Twitter, on Facebook — was overwhelming, and we’ve (papal plural) spent lots and lots of time [...]
<!– Text Size Print Reprints –> Los Angeles will have a new mayor beginning July 1. His name is Eric Garcetti, the city councilman who won a Tuesday runoff and made some history. He’ll become the city’s first elected Jewish mayor and its youngest in more than a century when he’s sworn in. Garcetti at his [...]
<!– Text Size Print Reprints –> The comparisons were inevitable: two guys who became a national punchline after being caught in sex scandals make a bid for a political comeback from disgrace. Mark Sanford But once you get past the astonishment and the snickers, the differences are more significant than the similarities between Mark Sanford, [...]
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott has finished the fix of the flawed election law that relegated Florida to a late-night joke in 2012 by signing an elections clean-up bill passed on the final day of the legislative session. The measure, signed by Scott late Monday before he left for a trade mission to Chile, reverses [...]
Santo Domingo.- Former opposition candidate Hipolito Mejia tried to steal the May 20, 2012, presidential election from Dominican Republic’s ruling party (PLD) and its candidate Danilo Medina, despite the Organization of American States’ (OAS) confirmation that the polling was transparent. Journalist Rafael Nuñez made the revelation recently in his book “Tramas ocultas de una campaña [...]
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<!– Text Size Print Reprints –> The Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Washington D.C. (Credit: Washington Post) The controversy surrounding the Treasury Department Inspector General for Tax Administration’s report on the Internal Revenue Service has highlighted how little most people know about the standard protocol for dealing with these investigations once they’re underway. David Sampson [...]
Issues » General May 22, 2013 PRINT: SHARE: Coming out of the 2012 presidential election, women’s role in determining its outcome—the so-called gender gap—was a dominant narrative. Women played a large part in President Barack Obama’s re-election, with 55 percent voting for him compared to 44 percent supporting his Republican rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt [...]
