It’s hard to exaggerate how much damage the Washington Post does when it trades its credibility for right-wing shillery. The problem is that the Post maintains a residual credibility even when it drops even the most...
Read MoreLooking through the comments to my diary at Big Orange I am struck by how the overwhelming response assumes I am addressing why we are having difficulty passing health care reform through the Senate. I suppose I submitted my...
Read MoreI don’t know how any reasonable person can look back at the nomination of Robert Bork and be anything but grateful beyond words that he wasn’t confirmed by the U.S. Senate. But, these people exist. I don’t...
Read MoreIt gets boring constantly beating on the Republican Party for their racism and general intolerance, but it’s an important feature of our national political landscape. The occasion of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s death is an...
Read MoreAndrew Cohen raises 10 issues related to the CIA’s bad week. Here’s the one that interests me: 5. The aforementioned [Eric] Holder now is truly caught between legal and political pincers—to prosecute or not, to look...
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