My latest in Counter-Factual Theater: What if Nixon had never gone to China? China’s shift of weight towards the United States had major international implications. It heightened Soviet military vulnerability, while also providing...
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Please, please make it stop: It isn’t that I feel some fervent nostalgia for the good old days of moderate Republicanism, although it’s true that the Nixon-era GOP was only.
Our friend Freddie deBoer is self-immolating today, and since better people than I are on it I'd rather talk about this gem unearthed by a commenter: Obama is to the.
Above: The two kindest, gentlest men in American history. What did Richard Nixon think of Hillary Clinton? Well, this is probably about the easiest question in the world to answer. Mr. Nixon praised Barbara Bush as a model of a wife who has her own...
As I've mentioned before, the Nixon Library is Disneyland for cynical left-wing historians. It's located in boring ol'Yorba Linda, Nixon's birthplace. Turns out this was very disappointing for Nixon, who.
Paul Krugman points out yet again why, as the annual deficit continues to shrink, "deficit hawks" remain undeterred by the spectacular inaccuracy of their predictions: But what about people who.
Thomas Frank has another in his "why doesn't Obama use his unilateral authority to cause the Republican Party to spontaneously combust" series up: President Obama is in the doldrums. He has run out of ideas, and out of gas. His strongest supporters are in the...
I'm not saying this is on the level of LBJ ordering pants, but Richard Nixon talking about panda mating patterns is not something you expected to hear when you woke.
The only problem with this well-worn myth, which is not just advanced by those on the right, is that every underlying premise is false.
There are a depressing number of howlers in Thomas Frank's interview with Adolph Reed. Much of the content repeats arguments made in his earlier pieces, so I won't add to what to what I've already written. But Reed's defense of Nader does not get off...
We cocky Jacobin secular liberals are used to Damon Linker's moderately culturally conservative concern trolling by now. I must say, however, that this is a twist I didn't expect: The.
But it was worth it -- to inflict retaliation on a politician who refused to grant you an irrelevant endorsement! Emergency responders were delayed in attending to four medical situations.