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Littwin: The Iowa caucuses may have been a disaster for Dems,...

If you’re not Pete Buttigieg, and most of us are not, the Iowa caucuses were pretty much a disaster for Democrats, although you’d have...

Littwin: Who’s in a bigger panic, a Warren-stricken Bloomberg or an...

It was a long while coming, but I believe we have now officially moved into the early-panic stage of the Democratic presidential primary. This...

Littwin: State Senate’s decision to kill bump-stock ban should count as...

In the least surprising — and yet, possibly dumbest — news of the week from the Colorado legislature, the Senate GOP decided to kill...

Wiretap: Government bashing caused the Flint water crisis

Anti-government The real cause of the Flint water crisis: In an era of government bashing, America's infrastructure, once the envy of the world, has been...

Wiretap: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders dominate New Hampshire

  Changing winds A snowstorm bearing down on New Hampshire, and snow is not the only thing swirling in the state. The primary vote is finally...

Bloomberg Video: More immigration could fix the economy

As Fox News and others excoriate President Obama for easing up on deportations, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has the gall to say that what this country needs more of is immigration.

Conservative Republicans bankrolling gay marriage campaign in New York

A funny thing is happening on the way to the altar, at least in New York. The bulk of the money to finance a campaign to legalize gay marriage in the state is coming from conservative wealthy Republicans. Even Mayor Michael Bloomberg is known to have kicked in at least $100,000.

Gas drilling impacts on Big Apple’s water supply now a mayoral...

Perhaps when mayors of small mountain towns on Colorado’s Western Slope express concerns about the environmental impacts of natural gas drilling it doesn’t cause...