Author: Geov Parrish

Winning Hearts and Minds, Cont’d

Ugh. It sounds like officials are still trying to sort out what happened in today’s massacre in Afghanistan. But to state the obvious: wars, especially endless, pointless ones, breed these sorts of incidents. And...

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Kucinich’s Legacy

Dennis Kucinich lost his Congressional seat in Ohio’s primary this week, an redistricting-induced election that was designed for him to lose by throwing him into a new district comprised mostly of the old district of his...

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Here We Go Again

In 2004, after a year of ferocious criticism, the New York Times published a famous mea culpa, apologizing, sort of, for its relentlessly misleading cheerleading of war against Iraq in the months leading up to that invasion....

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The Republican Farm Team

Charles R. Pierce – whose ability to combine thoughtfulness and snark has made him one of my more favorite political writers in legacy media the last couple of years – has a post surveying a few of the nuttier...

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