Reading Frog Entrails
Although the media may behave otherwise, Iowa’s oddball caucuses are as apt to choose a loser as a winner.
The Rich are Profiting Like It’s 1929
We’re being sold a bill of goods, people.
If the Super-Committee Fails, America Wins
Any agreement that would come forth from the SuperCommittee will inevitably be disastrous for domestic social programs.
The OMG Congress
With unemployment topping 9 percent, the European economy sliding toward an abyss, and Lindsey Lohan posing nude for Playboy, Congress took time out to “reaffirm” In God We Trust as our official national motto.
Gridlock and Bedlam
It’s scary, but I’m starting to agree with my pessimist friend.
High Noon in Washington
Just like in the classic western, Obama stands alone, outnumbered against forces who seek his destruction.
You Can’t Milk a Butter Cow
The Ames Straw Poll is as empty of meaning as a politician’s promise.
Playing Chicken in the Capitol
In Washington, adults are playing games that even slow-witted teenagers don’t play anymore.
Obama Will Address Immigration Issues Today – Don’t Hold Your Breath
As state legislatures take immigration policy in their own hands, Congress seems determined to avoid the subject at all costs.
The Abortion War Cranks Up
Reducing abortion rates requires better sex education and more access to contraception, but many states aren’t on board.
Film: Not Just A Game; Power Politics and American Sports
Not Just A Game; People, Politics, and American Sports, the powerful new documentary based on Dave Zirin’s bestselling book A People’s History of Sports, argues that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long need at the center of some of major political debates and struggles of our time. The result is as deeply moving as it is exhilarating: nothing less than an alternative history of political struggle in the United States as seen through the games its people have played.
Sarah Palin and the Dozen Dwarfs
The tea party effect: no Republican who can win the general election in 2012 can be nominated.
Newt Fakes It
Gingrich has been posing as a possible candidate for a decade now, using the attention he gets to promote his books, speeches, lobbying business, and other hustles.
My Favorite Republican
Eisenhower’s farewell address sounds like a speech not merely from another era but from another planet.
Food, Egypt, and Wall Street
As Egypt and the Middle East rise, Wall Street and congressional Republicans continue to ignore the financial reforms the world is demanding.