If your roof is leaking, hiring an interior decorator to redo your living room won't keep your ceiling from eventually collapsing. Likewise, if you're a a political party struggling to preserve what's left of its rapidly-fraying relevance, appointing a different messenger won't change the fact that the message is…

Are you a member of the teeming huddled masses? Are you a foreigner who has been exhibiting symptoms of the American Dream for two weeks without relief? Well, help is on the way in the form of a massive immigration overhaul that has a good chance of passing by the 4th of July (or dying, and in the process doing even…

This week, boringly wacky Congressperson Trent Franks' dumb, dumb, dumb 20 week abortion ban advanced one step closer to becoming a law at the federal level*. Helping his constitutionally flaccid bill along was an all-male chorus of YEA votes in the nincompoopery-intense House Judiciary Committee — or, as we're going…

As a graduate (and a scholar) in International Relations and Middle East Studies, I've eyed my fair share State Department/intelligence jobs before realizing I didn't want to be another pawn in the enactment of American imperialism and hegemony. But before it dawned on me that I never want to have to remove my nose…

What do we want? Change! When do we want it? Meow!

The day after the election last fall, I felt like the bespectacled teen movie archetype who just found out the POPULAR BOY (played by an actor with a suspiciously square twentysomething jaw for a high schooler) asked her to prom. Across the country, politicians who had publicly said dumb crap about women's roles,…

Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake recently took his two youngest sons on a highly-publicized survivalist adventure on a desert island. It must've been a calming respite for 15-year-old Tanner, whose aggressive social media presence suggests he'll make the perfect Republican politician someday: he plays the iPhone…

The menu at the Australian Liberal National Party candidate Mal Brough’s $1000 a plate fundraiser dinner describes Julia Gillard, the country's Prime Minister (the PRIME MINISTER) (you know, the Prime Minister), as "Kentucky Fried Quail — Small Breasts, Huge Thighs, and a Big Red Box."

Florida Senator and varsity-level combover artist Marco Rubio has taken a break from his busy schedule of practicing "I'm Very Concerned" facial expressions in a mirror to introduce proposed changes to immigration reform legislation that would strengthen the requirement that aspirant US citizens demonstrate proficiency…

Michele Bachmann's leaving Congress (and, fingers crossed, the planet — we hear Pluto's Senate is too ethical). Sarah Palin still inspires reality TV shows and biopics but not much more. Thus, NBC wonders how the GOP will solve its lady voter problem if these bastions of feminism can't lead the way. Dumb question,…