Jonathan Gitlin has a post up on the sad state of healthcare in America. Not only do we predictably fall behind other industrialized countries in every conceivable category, but our lack of preventative healthcare for children, along with inadequate nutrition, has lead to the stunting of...
Richard Hasen has a must-read article about the "American Center for Voting Rights," which was ginned up to varnish bullshit Republican claims of widespread voter fraud and has completely disappeared..
Shorter Maureen Dowd: Al Gore is fat.
Is Condi's dream about to become a reality?The Guardian has a story today with this headline: "Bush may turn to UN in search for Iraq solution." It is filled with.
I went to the awards ceremony (looking at the list of honorees, even as an indirect winner, my sense of things was pretty much "what the hell am I doing.
As the new Pew poll causes the right wing of the blogosphere to start flinging their poo again, it's worth recalling that polls reveal all kinds of nutty -- and genuinely consequential -- beliefs. It tells us little, obviously, that X percentage of Muslims in America...
Count me in as a cynic along with Tom Tomorrow regarding this optimistic statement by E.J. Dionne in his review of Al Gore's new book out today. "…the larger change.
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood debuted 40 years ago today, a few hours before Langston Hughes died from complications following prostate cancer surgery. Rogers, an ordained Presbyterian, chose not to pursue a.
Jill Filipovic points us to this Times article about the new strategy to justify using state coercion to force women to carry pregnancies to term by claiming that women are too irrational to know what's good for them, and offers a modest proposal. I would also...
Over at WhirledView, Cheryl Rofer asks a number of extremely important questions about the nature of threats to U.S. security. In particular, she asks them in the context of a.
Hmm, I think I could almost forgive Duke Cunningham sitting around naked in a hot tub filled with polluted water. (Admittedly, this is easier from a distance.) But this is.