Should an industry so dedicated to stopping progress deserve any protections without any accompanying responsibilities? Everything should be on the table for discussion.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Welcome back to Friday Talking Points, after a one-week hiatus! While plenty has happened in the past two weeks which bears close and careful analysis...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
McCain flip-flops on torture, tax cuts, the religious right, Roe v. Wade, lobbyists, gay marriage, creationism, Iraq, talking to enemies, and just about any other subject you care to name.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Bush's term in office will be remembered for the precedents it set, particularly in relation to the presidential power, and the separation of powers between the three branches of U.S. government.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.
Melissa Hapke | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home
The ACLU wrote that Bond's proposal, "wouldn't actually look at whether telecom companies broke the law; it would just look at what the Bush administration told telecom companies was the law."
Jonathan Rintels | Posted 04.25.2008 | Media
It's time for the government to implement reasonable oversight that protects consumers and content creators, and preserves the open Internet we enjoy today.
Jonathan Rintels | Posted 03.16.2008 | Media
Last week's opening of Hulu and the MPAA's vehement denunciation of net neutrality are intimately related, a double-barreled shot aimed at the heart of the open Internet.
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
As Robert Anton Wilson pointed out (or William S. Burroughs, if you prefer), hexagram 23 of the I Ching is "breaking apart." Anyone who subscribes to...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
It's been a busy week for Democrats, with a lot to cover. There has been good news and bad, but on the whole I'd have to judge the week a success for...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics
This column is dedicated to the idea that Democrats can learn to use talking points as effectively as Republicans often do. This idea annoys many who...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics
Netizens, fellow bloggers, Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid, Members of Congress, Supreme Court Justices, and all Americans... I am proud to stand...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics
Time for another fun round of Democratic talking points for the weekend ahead! After a hiatus for the year-end awards, and then a special "all electi...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics
The whole Obama flap over cocaine (fueled by the Clinton camp) needs to get shot down right away, before any Republicans consider using it to attack Obama. And it's so pathetically easy to shoot this one down.
Craig Newmark | Posted 11.28.2007 | Politics
Remember that Reagan fought a much more dangerous enemy than al Qaeda without resorting to breaking the law like this.
Ari Melber | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics
Under Democratic control, Congress is doing even worse on illegal spying than the Republicans.
David Sirota | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics
The netroots is really going to have to figure out how to meld its bourgeois focus with the kitchen-table concerns of everyday, non-political-junkie Americans.
Joe Galloway | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics
The Bush White House may have gotten most everything it's touched wrong, but it's raised fear-mongering to a fine art.
Timothy Karr | Posted 09.12.2007 | Media
Net neutrality supporters today submitted a FOIA request to the Department of Justice to shed light on their recent hit job against net neutrality.
Ian Welsh | Posted 08.31.2007 | Media
Americans like to think that they are the most technically advanced nation in the world, but except in military affairs, and perhaps biotech, that's generally not the case.
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
UPDATE 12/2: Marc Ambinder is reporting that Jeb Bush is considering a run for the Senate to...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
this just in: Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Pardon the metaphor, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on the pig that is US...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
Last night, CNN's Campbell Brown criticized President-elect...
DALLAS — Of all the cajoling, snide remarks and...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
Art Brodsky | Posted 10.29.2008 | Media