Month: June 2009

. Renouncing Bush’s Worldview A whole speech about Islam, and President Obama didn’t use the word “terrorists” even once? Obama’s conservative critics, along with some media observers, are up in...

How do you feel about efforts by the Obama administration, the DSCC, and assorted senators and governors to clear the primary field of competition in senate races? Does it save money and avoid party strife, thereby helping to...

I don’t know or particularly care whether or not the Obama administration is intentionally pursuing a policy of undermining Netanyahu’s coalition government (although I lean towards Josh Marshall’s view). But,...

The Confluence is a place for unreconstituted Hillary supporters who have not embraced our new president. I’ve never fully understood the true ideological and demographic makeup of the not-over-it crowd. I certainly...

Even before 1967, the Israeli army had been carrying out routine incursions into the West Bank, destroying poor people’s homes and killing innocent civilians, very much like what Israel has been doing in the Gaza Strip,...