Month: June 2010

Some books are overrated. The Grapes of Wrath is not. It is the most brutal of all great works, and it has the most poignant ending of any book I’ve ever read. At its heart, it is a book about the way that financial...

The House passed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 today in a 237-192 roll call vote. That’s not quite the end of the matter though. There’s still a nightmare scenario for Democrats: An...

Ambition and orthodoxy (Kagan’s hero is also Dershowitz’s) was just posted by Philip Weiss of Mondoweiss: Elena Kagan, the nominee to the Supreme Court, was dean of Harvard Law School in 2006 when she introduced...

Invading Iraq was a bit like using a nuclear weapon to kill an ant…sort of. I don’t know what the hell John Boehner is thinking saying the same about passing a Wall Street Reform bill to address the financial...

Russ Feingold talks a good game but I’m not sure he plays one. He acts like all the administration needs to do is accede to his demands and financial reforms will pass, when the opposite appears to be the case.