Author: BooMan

Is anyone else really disappointed to see another 5-4 Supreme Court decision on a contentious issue? The conservatives on the Court just won’t relent on any front. They always want to send the message that they’re...

Jonathan Chait is uncomfortable with the tone of progressive mockery. "You signed up for your employer-sponsored health insurance" is a pretty weak gotcha to throw at Ted Cruz. — Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait)...

This actually hurt my brain: In an interview on Tuesday with the Texas Tribune, the newly-minted presidential candidate [Senator Ted Cruz] compared himself to the Galileo when discussing, of all things, whether climate change...

Now this story I’m about to unfold took place back in the early nineties–just about the time of our conflict with Saddam and the Iraqis. I only mention it ’cause sometimes there’s a man–I...

Richard Cohen sent me a blogger alert: Now for a blogger alert: Please note that I do not think racism is no longer a problem or that campus rape has not been an unaddressed horror. I know better. But I also believe that...