Author: BooMan

Getting Trolled By the Troll

Ruben Navarrette Jr. has tired of trolling the immigration issue from the right in the guise of supporting comprehensive reform: Given his retreat [on comprehensive immigration reform], [Sen. Marco] Rubio [R-FL] may have...

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Our Problems Are Too Big

E.J. Dionne says “To create a real center, you need a real left,” by which he means senators like Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown, and Bernie Sanders who will push back on the idea that we have to reduce...

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New Year, Unemployed Still Screwed

Happy New Year, everybody! We enjoyed a low-key and fairly early night with friends, in anticipation of celebrating Finn’s fourth birthday this morning. He’s convinced that he’ll magically be able to do a lot...

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Snake Eaten By Tail

Maybe it’s because 2013 was such a stupid year but, as it comes to an end, I have been preoccupied with how incredibly paralyzingly stupid our country has become. Matt Taibbi appears to be having similar thoughts. Then, of...

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A Generation That Looks Doomed

The party that figures out how to convince young people that they have a solution to this will win elections until either the problem is solved or it becomes apparent that their solution did not work. The Institute for College...

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