NEW YORK (Reuters) – Author Thomas Frank has seen the future and he doesn’t think many Americans will like it. In his new book “Pity the Billionaire,” the chronicler of conservative politics and market-based economics discusses the two trends after the 2008 financial crisis that led to bailouts of the large U.S. banks and to [...]
MAHALLA EL-KUBRA, Egypt (Reuters) – Party agents flooded the streets with banners and verses from the Koran as the third phase of Egypt’s parliamentary election began on Tuesday, with Islamists trying to dominate an assembly that will rival the clout of the ruling generals. The army faced anger over its handling of protests that left [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York police on Tuesday questioned a “person of interest” who may be linked to the Molotov cocktail attacks that targeted a mosque and a Hindu place of worship on Sunday night, Commissioner Ray Kelly said. The case is being investigated as a possible hate crime and drew strong remarks from [...]
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, fighting low expectations in the Iowa caucuses, is dismissing predictions that a poor showing could effectively doom her campaign. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Onetime Republican presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich called on campaign rival Mitt Romney Tuesday to “just level with the American people” about his moderate political views. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News
President Barack Obama will waste little time getting back in front of voters following a 10-day Hawaiian vacation spent largely out of the spotlight. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News
In the kickoff contest of the 2012 presidential race, Republican candidates argued up to Tuesday’s finish line in Iowa over which candidate is a conservative that voters can trust and who they can count on to defeat President Barack Obama. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News
A funny thing happened recently in the presidential campaign in Iowa: The last Republican president’s name actually surfaced. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News
DES MOINES, IOWA– Ron Paul’s presidential campaign released a comparatively edgy new ad Monday that will air on local and cable networks across Iowa and New Hampshire. The spot touts Paul’s call to cut a trillion dollars from federal budget in his first year in office. Played over a rock track, a man’s voice in the [...]
The road to health care reform—what the Republican presidential candidates routinely call “Obamacare,” and likely the central issue of the fall 2012 campaign—began in Iowa. In May 2007, Barack Obama was a United States senator and Democratic presidential candidate who was losing to Hillary Clinton by double digits in national polls, when he unveiled the [...]