Month: September 2010

My relationship with the Washington Post went from alarm to dismay to shock to resignation during the Bush years. During the Clinton presidency, I saw the Post as an institutionally center-left organization. In many ways, it was...

There is no difference between the the two major American political parties. To wit: The GOP class of 2010’s ideological convergence extends across a broad terrain. All of the Senate candidates have endorsed a...

Bailing out Anglo-Irish Bank is not only economically stupid and politically terminal; it is immoral. My title encapsulates two notions that are extremely unpopular in contemporary thought: The notion that a nation can be said...

Cross-posted at Winning Progressive As you probably heard, John Boehner (R-Tanning Salon) today released the Republicans’ “pledge” to inflict America with a warmed over version of the Bush Administration...

So, say you’re a freshly inaugurated president in January 1961. What is the most pressing domestic issue you need to address? Need help? Okay. How about the fact that nearly half the country is operating as an Apartheid...