Month: February 2015

Jamelle Bouie has a new piece at Slate that looks at the Republicans’ solutions to largely imaginary problems. He focuses on three major examples: voter impersonation fraud, unsafe abortion clinics, and drug-addicted...

And this man wants to be President? Seriously? Now he’s deliberately using a false claim about a young teacher who was laid off after he became governor in order to bash Wisconsin’s teachers and its public education...

I never watched much of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart or The Colbert Report. It was mainly the time slot, but it was also that I spent all day writing about politics and I kind of needed a break by the end of the work day. But...

If Jeb Bush wants to distinguish himself from his idiot brother, he’s going to have to show that he’s not completely incompetent. He’ll also have to break with Dubya on some substantive policy issues. Giving a...

So this happened and some people noticed. I confess, I can’t do it this time. I can’t even do it. David Brooks, there is no pain you are receding; your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying. The...