The Stopped Clock

Break out the violins for Wall Street . While Wall Street investment banks and other financial firms make headlines for the millions paid ou...

Oops ? The producers of “Idol” apologized Thursday on behalf of its judges, who apparently misinterpreted what a contestant in Louisville, K...

You've heard that one, right? That banks are sitting on trillions of dollars of securities, state on their books that those securities h...

Hey, I have an idea. You know how people always complain about "letting the lunatics run the asylum"? Well, what proof do you have...

If we must have a 'bad bank' ... Dean Baker proposes a provision that will keep taxpayers from being completely soaked when they b...

When people like John Bolton start suggesting that Gaza be placed under Egyptian occupation control, your initial reaction may be, "Wh...

I don't know if Obama should scold the person who stuck the birth control provision into the stimulus bill, or thank them. The scolding ...

Typical of his way of thinking, which is to say... poorly, Richard Cohen today argues that we can't prosecute Bush Administration offici...

Of course it is . Marvelous Malia and Sweet Sasha are the names of the dolls manufactured by Ty - the company that made billions from the ...

The town of Mount Charleston, Nevada, appears to be split between people who are mostly solidly middle class and people who are wealthy. But...

If you wait long enough, somebody's probably going to articulate what you are thinking, and probably say it better. Case in point: I hav...

What else could it be? Gerson, Frum and Thiessen are in some sort of contest , to see who can say the dumbest things in public yet still be ...

Oh my.... Attacking Michael Hirsh, and accusing him of being "'even happier' about the advance of liberal arrogance than he is ...

First it was David Frum , not a stupid man but one predisposed to fatuous assertions; next Michael Gerson, the nation's dumbest syndicat...

Why isn't everything fixed yet? Update: The low expectations continue .

But they'll sign songs about me and throw parties in my honor... after I'm dead! Seriously, I'm used to the litany of articles a...

And relax. It's not like the expectations are high . I've never liked this song , but it seems appropriate for the occasion. I'm...

You remember Bruce Anderson from his ethnically sensitive column on Hurricane Katrina ( Don't blame Bush - Blame black people! ), or per...

Imagine a football game, three seconds left, the team with possession trails by five points, they're on their own forty yard line... Wha...

The Guardian presents an editorial , a curious cross of self-pity and self-indulgence, that repeats two arguments that are inevitably presen...