Month: February 2011

(Written by an American expat living in the European Union) There are 59 million Americans who don’t have medical insurance. There are 132 million Americans who don’t have dental insurance. What if there were an...

Steve Benen makes a nice catch. He’s found proof-positive that the modern Republican Party is beyond redemption (at least, if you follow the criteria of former Republican senator and former U.S. Ambassador to the United...

Does it surprise anyone that Richard Cohen used his column today to blast public service unions? Probably the best part about his rant is his attempt to establish his union bona fides. I pause now to assert my bona fides. I got...

We come now to the evening of Thursday, December 1, 1955.  Rosa Parks flatly states, “I did not intend to get arrested.  If I had been paying attention, I wouldn’t even have gotten on that bus.”...

The loss of life is terrible, and the loss of stability is unsettling, and there are no assurances that the Arab World is headed for a better place, but there is a pretty good possibility that we will see a decrease in the...