Ed Kilgore has a smart intervention on the question of the Jacksonian tradition in the Democratic Party. Let us acknowledge the one major progressive achievement of Jackson's presidency -- staring.
How many bad analogies and metaphors and cliches can be crammed into a blog post? Can we learn something from bad arguments about the Supreme Court? Let's find out! I.
Some #realtalk from Thomas Piketty: But Piketty, who penned the blockbuster 2013 book on income inequality Capital in the Twenty-First Century, slammed conservatives who favor the economic austerity measures Germany.
It's not exactly news that Sean Wilentz's punditry during the 2008 primaries was an embarrassment. But, via Chait, I somehow missed this definitive example: Under those pressures, the Barack Obama.
In a landslide. I don't claim expertise, but I'm inclined to defer to this actual expert and see this as the least terrible outcome. As Krugman acknowledges, there's reason to.
In some cases -- Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain most obviously in the last cycle -- no-hope presidential candidates are essentially running a grift, trying to build their personal brands.
Burneko saved me a lot of time by writing this: The New York Times published a recipe for guacamole with green peas in it. Not to insist that all guacamole.
I pretty much agree with Stern on this: Following the Supreme Court’s ruling that every state in America must grant marriage licenses to gay couples, at least two clerks tasked.
