LINDA J. KILLIAN https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Paging Through History Time to stop fighting and start fixing Hope vs. experience? Democrats want both Hate Congress? Blame yourself A no-win election for independents Israel skinny-dipping could cost GOP seats Supreme Court ruling not a big deal for some Exit Dick Lugar, and GOP nonpartisanship The last of the GOP moderates Supreme Court Opens a New Front What happened to the class of ’94? Haley Barbour’s Last-Minute Pardons Hurt the GOP’s Law-and-Order Image Democratic Sen. Mark Warner Defies Party to Engage GOP on a Deficit deal Independents Are Growing in Number and Drifting Away From Obama Intramural War of Words Raises Question of Who Loves Israel More Labor’s New War Chest Why Women Don’t Win Massachusetts When Will We See a #Millennial Congress? Yes, Independent Swing Voters Are Real. And May Decide Who Wins Elections The Independents Who Could Tip the Senate in November The Independents Who Could Tip the Senate in November Candidates in Maine, Nebraska, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C., Challenge Republicans and Democrats Alike It’s Disenfranchisement When Independents Can’t Vote in Primaries The Senate’s New Taxman Won’t Be Controlled By His Own Party Articles and Commentary Archive Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: How Ruy Teixeira Got it Wrong on ‘Swing Vote’ Olympia Snowe’s farewell from the Senate Goodbye to Olympia Snowe, Maine independent This Was Hillary Clinton’s Week—and Her Moment Is Just Beginning The Republican Push to Make It Harder to Vote What the Second Brown-Warren Debate Says About Gender in Politics Supercommittee Failure Confirms What Most Americans Believe About Congress Even Barney Frank Thinks Congress Is Too Partisan These Days Unions and Young People: A Winning Combination for 2012? Our Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Congress The Ryan I Know: A Mild-Mannered Wonk and Ideological True Believer This Year’s Fight Over Taxing the Middle Class — and the Rich Why Congress May Be Done for the Year Rick Santorum’s Last Stand? 4 Types of Independent Voters Who Could Swing the 2012 Elections Newt Gingrich Still Can’t Win a General Election Why Newt Gingrich Will Never Be President The Swing Vote Articles and Commentary Books Events Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine Home Contact Media