Republicans have failed not because of poor execution, but because they are acting on a philosophy deeply and fundamentally flawed.
Bill Scher | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
If conservatives want to prevent young voters -- two-thirds of whom support Obama -- from remaining liberal Democrats for their rest of their lives, hating on gays is not exactly the best way to do it.
Jan Herman | Posted 11.05.2008 | Media
It is the Journal, in a column this morning by Thomas Frank, an addition to the Journal's opinion pages to balance all the resident right-wingers, that puts Obama's victory in proper perspective.
Ronald Maxwell | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
In the waning hours of the campaign, otherwise known as the end days of Republican rule, acolytes of Sarah Palin are preparing the way for her triumphal return.
David Quigg | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
No group in America would have more trouble adjusting to an Obama presidency than the Bush Liberals. Yes, there really is such a thing as a Bush Liberal. Let me explain.
Brian Normoyle | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
Nearly two years of presidential politics are finally coming to an end and it appears John McCain--out of "gimmicks du jour"--has decided to spend muc...
Matt Mendelsohn | Posted 10.27.2008 | Business
This year, it seemed certain that liberalism would show up at the Halloween block party wearing the costume of a self-loathing American: a terrorist-loving, non-flag-pin-lapel-wearing lefty.
CC Goldwater | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
Being Barry Goldwater's granddaughter and living in Arizona, one would assume that I am voting for John McCain. However, nothing about McCain compares to the ideology my grandfather stood for.
Byron Williams | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics
Can someone remind me when conservatism was granted sole authority to determine who loves this country and who is un-American?
Paul Waldman | Posted 10.21.2008 | Media
When Republicans win, we're told that Democrats need to move to the center. When Democrats win, on the other hand, we're told that... Democrats need to move to the center.
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics
Instead of excommunicating Buckley and others, conservatives should be debating with them. But intolerance is winning out over intellectual inquisitiveness.
Shahid Buttar | Posted 10.01.2008 | Business
Beyond its uncertainty, the Administration also appears as disingenuous as it did on Iraq. Five years ago, officials cried wolf about weapons of mass destruction that were never found.
Matthew Duss | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home
with Ed Paisley, Vice President for Editorial, and Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. In his new book, The...
David Sloan Wilson | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
Two of my colleagues, Massimo Pigliucci and Larry Arnhart, have objected to my declaration that the invisible hand is dead. They also disagree with ea...
Bill Scher | Posted 09.03.2008 | Politics
McCain's selection by a plurality of Republican primary voters showed an implicit willingness to tackle the secular problem, at least symbolically if not substantively.
Wayne Besen | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
Liberal values are often superior to those held on the right, because they are tenaciously subjected to rigorous examination. Beliefs that are questioned and still prevail are the ones that stand the test of time.
Dan Agin | Posted 07.18.2008 | Media
The dogma of American conservatism is to look backward, which means you're usually out of date in understanding progress and usually wrong in understanding the human condition.
American News Project | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
Grover Norquist and the most powerful conservative institutions met in Washington DC to discuss the state of the movement for lower taxes and less gov...
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
A revival of the American community requires us to spend much less of our energy and resources on fighting one another, and invest much more of it in the common good.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
The conservatives' well of ideas may well have run dry, but the American majority has hardly turned liberal. So could the most compelling ideas be neither conservative nor liberal but communitarian?
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. long claimed to have found that American politics swing back and forth between conservative and liberal periods. After 8 years of Bush, a liberal comeback is due (if not overdue).
Bill Scher | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
This is conservatism. The insistence that your economic dissatisfaction is illegitimate, and can only be explained by a brainwashing from the media or politicians
Tony Sachs | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
To elect a far-left liberal in 2008 would be like Reagan getting elected in 1968, or FDR in 1924. The country simply isn't ready yet. The liberals' time will come again -- just not this year.
Lincoln Chafee | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
Jesse Helms' legacy is one of strong opposition to women's reproductive freedom, gay rights, foreign aid for diplomacy, and public funding for the arts -- priorities that run strong in today's GOP.
Hal Donahue | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
Now, we as a people realize that the extreme conservatism dominating the Republican Party produces only division and incompetence. We are demanding a reversal of course.
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Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics