Month: April 2010

I just watched quite the spectacle on the Senate floor. Senator Claire McCaskill attempted to get unanimous consent to the confirmation of 12-15 nominees to various government agencies who have been subject to secret holds...

Originally featured in the Montreal Gazette. Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. I grew up in Westmount as an only child with a relatively privileged middle-class life. I attended Selwyn...

The International Monetary Fund a/k/a the IMF is not exactly a radical, extremist left wing organization. It is deeply embedded in the current global economic and financial establishment (and responsible in part for the mess we...

Richard Cohen remains one of the most incoherent columnists in America. Even as he tries to reassure his religious brethren that the president has an entirely sensible policy towards Israel, he can’t help but bash Obama...

Sarah Palin thinks of the founding age of the United States as an era of “Christian Roots.” That’s true in a way, but not in the way that Palin means it. In rejecting the principle that God should be separated...