Month: June 2014

We Take Care of Our Own

When President Obama ran for reelection, his campaign speech was accompanied at nearly every stop by Bruce Springsteen’s song We Take Care of Our Own. It was an explicit endorsement of the values expressed in that song and...

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My Thoughts on Cantor’s Upset Loss

In the aftermath of Eric Cantor’s epic, shocking 11-point primary loss to an underfunded xenophobic college professor, Hillary Clinton bestrides the globe like a colossus. There is literally no hope now that the Republican...

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Organize and Pitch Some Progressive Ideas, Too

My colleague Ed Kilgore is pretty consistent and persistent in his conviction that the best way to turn out Democratic voters in a mid-term election is mechanically, through field work, rather than through “exciting the...

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Two Cans of Mace Would Work Better

I think the headline of this Washington Post piece is worse than the actual article. The headline suggests that women should stop having premarital sex in order to protect themselves from sexual violence, which isn’t...

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