Greece's economic and political unraveling could not be coming at a worse moment for President Obama. The crisis has the potential to send shock waves not simply through Europe but also through global financial markets on the very eve of the U.S. presidential election.

The American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs.

Nothing excites the base of the Democratic Party—or gets more free media—than wildly implausible hysterics over racism, even when there's so little evidence to support the claim.

We need a Republican president — not to fix the economy, but to get the credit.

The first order of business for a Republican president next year should be corporate-tax reform. But even if Republicans win big in the fall, undoing America's largest policy error will be an almost impossible political lift, unless enough people in both parties come to grips with the counterintuitive economics of corporate-tax reform.

Has Barack Obama's Democratic party given up on winning the votes of the white working class? Thomas Edsall, the longtime Washington Post reporter now with the Huffington Post, thinks so.