Latest articles by Robert Shrum
-
The Republican Ruins
opinion
opinion -
Cheney demands a Torture Commission
opinion
opinion -
The Republicans' Paranoid Style
opinion
opinion -
The increasingly worthless GOP nomination
feature Mitt Romney is pandering so desperately to the far-right fringe that he's become all but unelectable in November
feature -
The GOP's dangerous arrogance
feature An American default – or deliberate descent into another economic crisis – is unthinkable to most of global civil society. What great nation would do this to itself – or everyone else?
feature -
Republicans serve the devil his Tea
feature The GOP's Faustian bargain with the Tea Party will cost it dearly in 2012 — or sooner
feature -
Smear Britannia: Conservatives open a new front on health care
opinion In their effort to destroy health-care reform in the U.S., conservatives have been heaping lies upon government-run health care in the U.K. Britons would never surrender their National Health System. Once Democrats pass reform here, Americans won
opinion -
Romney on the precipice
feature Santorum is surging toward an improbable win in Michigan — a victory that might just push the juggernaut Romney campaign right off a cliff
feature -
Democrats won — now what?
feature Democrats surprised Republicans — and probably themselves — Tuesday. Now Obama must define the campaign narrative that can keep his party in power past November.
feature -
Obama's eloquence in action
opinion
opinion -
Obama gets his groove back
feature In his State of the Union address, Obama offers no retreat on his agenda, and no place to hide for the Republicans.
feature -
Decision time for Obama, Dems and GOP
feature The GOP must decide whether to follow the Tea Party over a cliff. Dems must decide whether to distance themselves from Obama. And the president must prove once again that he can tip events in his favor
feature -
Sharia politics at Notre Dame
opinion In the neo-Caths’ view, if Obama disagrees with Catholic doctrine, he must be condemned and silenced—even if he’s not a member of the church. This assertion of an almost limitless role for the church in public lif
opinion -
Cheney's charge up the molehill
opinion The last recourse of the rear-guard, the only answer they have left, is that at least the nation has not been attacked at home since 2001. This is a blatant shift in their argument that reflects their fall from power. In office, they constantly w
opinion -
All politics is national
feature Democrats are fretting over midterm elections. But if they start fighting back -- and drawing key distinctions with Republicans -- now, they'll fare much better in November.
feature -
Mitt Romney is the only adult in the room
feature After Rick Perry's abysmal debate and Herman Cain's transparently false sexual harassment defense, it's more clear than ever that Romney's the one
feature -
Mitt Romney has the GOP strapped to the roof of his car
feature Republican voters are the Seamus of 2012 — slowing Mitt down by dumping on him, but unable to stop him from reaching his ultimate destination
feature -
Mini-Mitt's massive Super Tuesday challenge
feature Romney just barely eked out a win in his home state of Michigan. The robotic Republican will have an even tougher time in Ohio
feature -
It was a Super Tuesday for Democrats
feature A battered Mitt Romney is still a near lock for the GOP nomination — and that's good news for Dems not just in 2012 but in 2016 too
feature -
The GOP's desperate hunt for anyone but Mitt Romney
feature Herman Cain unravels. Rick Perry stumbles. And Republicans keep praying that someone will rescue them from the flip-flopping Romney
feature -
Obama threaded the needle in Egypt
feature Judge the president's diplomacy by the results — not by the critics
feature -
President Cuomo
feature The bold New York governor who brought same-sex marriage to the Empire State has become a civil rights hero — and a 2016 contender
feature -
The case for Nancy Pelosi
opinion
opinion -
In defense of Jon Corzine
feature MF Global may have gone down on the Democrat's watch. But first, Jon Corzine was a proud progressive who made New Jersey proud
feature
