Living political cartoon Mitt Romney knows how middle income people feel when they sit around their kitchen tables talking about hardscrabble real people topics like: "How are we going to be able to afford to find enough truffles for the dancing horse this winter?" and "Where can we find a car elevator repairman at this… » 9/14/12 2:30pm 9/14/12 2:30pm

Anthropologists who've been studying the U.S. middle class for the past decade have confirmed some theories we've long suspected thanks to various New York Times trend pieces: American kids are self-obsessed brats, and it's all their parents' faults. » 3/14/12 2:00pm 3/14/12 2:00pm

• Despite a little wave in the direction of potential independent women voters earlier this year, anti-abortion Republicans feel much better today that McCain is fooling independents and not them about his position on abortion. Of course, he also talked about how he wouldn't have nominated the 4 liberal justices on the …