Author: Aaron Barlow

John McGowan, pinch-hitting for Michael Berube, posted an important diary today on Berube’s blog.  He’s talking about democracy, and that it can never be real with one-party rule: The basic idea is simple:...

[This is a continuation of an earlier diary.  It is also crossposted at dKos]. Sunday night, Doubt by John Patrick Shanley won four Tony’s, including best play and best actress.  The play, about a possible case...

In an odd way, people of faith–be it in a god or in a political system (from right and left, in other words)–have emasculated many of us liberals over the past century, ripping from us our confidence in doubt....

There are many ways to express love of country, sometimes even by resisting misguided leaders.  Today, however, we memorialize those who willingly served in our country’s military, many dying or suffering...

[Crossposted on dKos] After months of reading and writing about him, I think I am finally beginning to understand the mindset of David Horowitz, a rightist so extraordinarily dedicated to the destruction of the left.  ...