Author: Geov Parrish

This political science-y piece shows pretty clearly what most political observers outside the Beltway-Mustache-Axis-of-Bipartisan-Fetishism intuitively understand: there simply isn’t a constituency for...

Oklahoma (natch) state senator Ralph Shortey has introduced a bill that would ban the use of aborted fetuses in food products. Seriously. Sen. Ralph Shortey of Oklahoma City introduced on Tuesday Senate Bill 1418, which...

I agree with Josh Marshall here: It would be quite difficult for Newt Gingrich to beat President Obama. The bigger story is that he would likely devastate the congressional Republican party. He’d probably weigh down the GOP up...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been 83 this year. He has been dead for longer than he was alive. As his living memory fades, replaced by a feel-good “I have a dream” whitewash that ignores much of what he...

Back in the day, I spent a couple of years with Dan Savage as my editor and immediate boss, so when I say that I blame Dan for many things, know that it’s personal. And one of those things, unfortunately, is that I...