Author: Geov Parrish

Election Ennui

For weeks, I’ve been having a hard time whipping up any interest or enthusiasm in this coming primary election season, normally a political junkie’s nirvana. Matt Taibbi does a good job of articulating why. As...

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Book Sales, However, Are Looking Up

One more piece of evidence, in case you needed any, that Newt Gingrich’s campaign was never intended to be serious: he forgot to buy his own domain name. Go ahead. Click on NewtGingrich.com. Do it again. Try it a couple...

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Not Quite Open Thread

This will be the 16th consecutive year that, in Eat the State! and the various other venues where I’ve written, I’ve compiled — usually with the help of my colleague Maria Tomchick — lists of the most...

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Holder Declares War on Vote Suppression

More, please: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday entered the turbulent political waters of voting rights, signaling that the Justice Department would be aggressive in reviewing new voting laws that civil rights...

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The Unquenchable Ego

Leave it to Donald Trump to try to get more publicity out of an unmitigated disaster. In his announcement tonight that Trump is mercifully cancelling a debate that even the Republican travelling freak show was (mostly) too...

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