Conservatives would like us all to believe their claim that history proves massive spending packages like the New Deal will supposedly harm our economy.
Ed Kilgore | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
There's every indication that Republicans are united in the belief that a more rigorous fidelity to conservative ideology is not only consistent with the Party's strategic needs, but is essential to their achievement.
David Roberts | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green
In last weekend's New York Times, conservatives Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) and Arthur Laffer had an op-ed claiming that a revenue-neutral "tax shift" would make conservatives "the new administration's best allies on climate change." Color me skeptical.
Tom Hayden | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics
Leaders of presidential transition teams are expected to be discreet, tight-lipped, button-down, servants of power, but not quite so in the case of Jo...
Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 12.26.2008 | Media
Over his long business career, Sam Zell has undoubtedly many times smirked at those who have reported failures whilst claiming, "It was not my fault." Now, Zell may well be smirking into the mirror.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
We've been pretending that somehow our society is exempt from everything human beings have learned about the need for order, structure and moral taboos.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics
The Republicans will have an opportunity during the Obama administration to stake out reasonable opposing positions that might restore their vanished credibility with the public.
Terrance Heath | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics
See Part One. There's a literary reference that comes to mind when I consider "Drop Dead" conservatism. (My English Lit. degree occasional...
Terrance Heath | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics
"Drop Dead." That's the best answer that some conservatives have been able to offer to a country in teeth of the worst financial crisis we'v...
Diane Tucker | Posted 12.11.2008 | World
When three opposition parties united against Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week, charging he failed to insulate Canada from the global financial ...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics
Welcome to the new "post-partisan" world, in the silly season on political punditry. Turns out the center has triumphed once again. But that, of course, depends on what you mean by center.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
If liberal Democrats and especially those further to the left are grumbling louder and louder about Obama they have no one but themselves to blame.
August J. Pollak | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Why, oh why, did this clear voice of the majority electorate go no further in the election?
Rob Kall | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
I'm getting a feeling for what it might have been like for modern mankind to experience the dwindling disappearance of the Neanderthals. I hesitate to...
Jim David | Posted 12.06.2008 | Style
Gays Threaten Churchgoers! Fags Brandish Firearms! Read All About It! Meet the latest Religious Right propaganda - Killer Homos. Because of Christia...
Harry Moroz | Posted 12.05.2008 | Business
I've written a fair amount lately about being less concerned with growing budget deficits than stimulating the failing economy. Beyond yearning for a...
Thomas Frank | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics
Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. But it pleases me even more to think that the conservatives' nightmare of permanent defeat might come true simply if Democrats do the right thing.
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics
Discussion and speculation abound regarding the sorry state of the Grand Old Party, with its clone-like band of graying White dudes and their backstag...
Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics
The hope for Republicans is that bloggers will predicate a conservative grassroots movement removed from the Christian arm of the Party--a base as intellectually responsive as the Daily Kos.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
If we want to win health care reform, we have to not only prove the insurance industry and the right-wing of this country wrong, we have to make them untrustworthy.
David Sirota | Posted 11.25.2008 | Business
As you'll see, the CNBC reporters start laughing at Grover Norquist, having trouble taking him seriously. And I must say, I really wasn't sure he was being serious -- but, of course, he was.
Harper Jean Tobin | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress cannot pass any law protecting state employees without extensive proof that states are violating the Constitution.
Rupert Russell | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
The conservative Counter-Establishment is the most cast-iron entanglement of alliances and dependencies known in modern American history.
Martin Lewis | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media
What has loyalty to the Fox-Republican-Conservative-Neanderthal cause bought E.D. Hill? Nothing. Nada. Zip. She has been dumped by Fox News which just decided not to renew her contract.
Financial Times | Andrew Jack | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics
Important US research to reduce HIV infection may have been prevented in recent years because scientists have censored their funding requests in respo...
If you think people laugh at your skiing skills then think again. A man was a...
The Anchorage Daily News reports that Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin's...
Rep. John Conyers has written a letter to Democratic colleagues urging them to join...
As January 20 grows larger in the window, I've been thinking more often about the...
I want to play poker with Harry Reid. Really I do. Rather than call for a...
America is in shock. It is not because of the unusual sight of the first black...
Are nude animal rights protests old hat? We got word of a...
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Rachel Maddow appeared on "The Daily...
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The Internet is awash with rumors over the cause of the tragic death of actor John Travolta's...
David Sirota | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics