Author: BooMan

Reading Ed Kilgore’s offerings this morning is really depressing. The Republicans are working on a toxic trifecta of opposing the Voting Rights Act in Alabama, complaining about blacks voting in elections in Mississippi,...

Lee Fang speculates that CNBC is solicitous of climate change deniers because the fossil fuel industry buys a lot of advertising time from them. It could really be that simple. The company is no longer owned by General Electric...

Back in 2007, when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were both running hot, the American Friends Service Committee issued a report that claimed we were spending $720 million a day and $500,000 a minute on those two conflicts. I...

Do you consider yourself a “solid liberal”? Do you think of yourself as a “typical American”? Are you proud to be an American? I’d answer a yes to each question, although reserving the right to...

The fact that the Supreme Court’s ruling against buffer zones around abortion clinics in Massachusetts was unanimous makes it more difficult for people to make a political argument against it. Obviously, many people are...