For the last five days I've been embroiled in the brutal, thankless process of moving self and family from the Queen City of the West to the Horse Capitol of the World. In the interest of sparing you from a full understanding of the terrible...
Month: August 2011
I have a piece at Alternet on the new proposal issued by the Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation and the United Steelworkers. Entitled "A Vision for Economic.
So I've spent the last few days moving to Providence. It'll be a few more before blogging is back to normal. As I presently have internet access, I need some.
Shorter Verbatim WaPo ombudsman Patrick Pexton: If your politics are liberal and you don’t generally read Rubin, but you read her Norway posts, you probably would be pretty offended. But if you are a conservative, or someone who reads Rubin regularly, you’ll know that this...
It's this kind of trenchant analysis that has allowed Newt to create a juggernaut that has slightly more chance of winning the Republican primary than Jon Hunstman and slightly less.
Last week Bernie Sanders suggested it would be a good idea, and today I would guess a lot more people agree with him. “They are all losers, from the White.
I think this gets it right. In particular, I hope most of you have learned that predictions that the Republican coalition is about to come apart at the seams are frequent while cases of it actually happening have been non-existent. One of the central realities...
If anti-choicers were motivated by a desire to protect fetal live, rather than the desire to impose reactionary gender rules, they wouldn't be opposed to providing contraception too. Needless to.
There's no reasonable defense of the substance of the debt deal on even vaguely liberal, let alone progressive, grounds. (The extent to which the Democrats were stuck with that substance.
Hideki Irabu, R.I.P. Good piece about his place in history and sad story here.
Here I do think Obama's unwillingness to consider the option reflects his preferences, or if not certainly reflects a serious misreading of what the Court is actually likely to do.
I'm not a generally a big fan of trying to determine what public officials "really want," not least because there's no way of extricating policy goals from political goals and.