Lesson: Regardless of his conflict of interest because his wife is a Republican operative, George Will is an equal opportunity hack, promoting all mouthbreathing right-wing ideas with aplomb.
Author: Erik Loomis
More than a little dispiriting that Obama is creating broad exemptions for religious groups to not provide free birth control in their health insurance plans. Congressional Democrats are rightfully outraged..
OK, what the deuce is going on here. From Yglesias' twitter feed, where he notes "Evidence that Obama has a shot at winning Wyoming and North Dakota." Yeah, you wonder..
It's pretty depressing that a law intended to oppress brown people has to affect a white person to make headlines, but that's America. A German manager with Mercedes-Benz is free after being arrested for not having a driver's license with him under Alabama's new law...
The Republican Vision of America's Future Not that this is surprising, but that he would say it so openly suggests how brazen the Republican Party has become in eviscerating the.
Rather than 2 discrete posts on OWS, it makes more sense to combine them. First, I really don't care whether OWS is losing popular support, as one poll suggests. While.
There's a been a bit of buzz across the blogosphere in the last 24 hours supporting Hendrik Hertzberg's call for an Alexander Hamilton movie. Of all the Founders’ lives, Hamilton’s was the most garishly cinematic. Consider these elements: born in the West Indies (the film...
I gave an interview to a newspaper journalist the other day who wanted some information about Occupy Wall Street in the context of the history of American social movements. One.
This Times piece on Republican Senate candidates floundering seems awfully hopeful to me, but given that the Republicans blew three pickup opportunities in 2010 thanks to nominating extremist candidates (DE,.
Great to know that the hilarity of blackface remains popular at some of our nation's finer sororities and fraternities! And I thought we lived in a post-racial society! In all seriousness, this brings up a couple of more substantial points. First, it's not like kids...
The Catholic Church has taken up a new strategy to fight against abortion and gay rights--talking about "religious liberty" to reject equal rights for gays and the right of women.
Jason Scott Smith gives us a primer of how the federal government once created a huge number of jobs in a short time and suggests the potential for this again.