CIA Director David Petraeus resigns over an extramarital affair.
Like most people I find this news pretty flabbergasting. I will say there’s some important context: extra-marital affairs in CIA, however common they may be, are always a big, big deal since they invite potential blackmail. So whatever else is going on here it’s significantly different than an ordinary politician having an affair. But still, wow.
The Supreme Court today decided to take up the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act — a decision that could have enormous and far-reaching consequences.
A collection of some behind the scenes shots from Obama’s last campaign.
Okay, this really doesn’t have anything to do with Nate Silver — apples and oranges. And I didn’t even know we were doing this piece. But this is awesome. Because I remember very well when this book came out. I think I even reviewed it on TPM at the time.
Back in 2002 my friends Ruy Teixeira and John Judis wrote a book called The Emerging Democratic Majority. Read More
Hard for me to imagine that the President could waive this sort of thing. But maybe not. From a TPM Reader who does federal employment law … Read More
After calling for Texas to secede from the union over Obama win, Texas Republican explains that “many members of minority groups are simply racist against the party most white people happen to vote for.”
