The Stopped Clock

Why would Thomas Friedman want Susan Rice to be Secretary of State when he can have a magic man. Alas, if only Steve Jobs were still with...

David Brooks lectures , It’s foolhardy to try to persuade people to see the profound errors of their ways in the hope that mental change wi...

Yesterday, Diane Rehm's panel included Julie Hirschfeld Davis, congressional correspondent for Bloomberg News, and Amy Walter, politica...

On several recent occasions I've heard conservative talking heads make comments along the line of, "Global warming is real, the sc...

From the Washington Post , probably soon to be corrected, Rob bb8279be-2d2d-11e2-a99d-5c4203af7b7a is executive director of FairVote, a non...

A significant number of Republicans have renewed their argument for a modest reinvention of the Republican Party, that it needs to move awa...

" We're through the looking glass here, people. And down the rabbit hole. And we've just had some kind of mushroom.... " ...

Robert Kuttner comments on Medicare reform proposals : The White House, however, has dropped hints that Medicare could come in for cuts, sp...

Robert Kuttner analyzes the President's proposals on taxes and the budget as we approach the so-called fiscal cliff: However, despite ...

... If I understand how it is programmed. Well, not really, but when I read stuff like this , my thought is, "Yes, connecting with pe...

I have some sympathy for the " It should be about competence , not marital fidelity" argument, when applied to somebody like Gene...

Mark Thoma quotes Robert Reich on "grand bargain" negotiations, with Reich proposing how President Obama could open negotiation...

Jackson Diehl and I have different ideas of what constitutes "blowback". I see "blowback" as the unintended consequence...

In simple terms, following the 1967 war between Israel and its Arab neighbors, three positions emerged on what should happen in the Palesti...

A couple of years ago I wrote about my experience with a fund raiser for The Breast Cancer Society , and the behavior of their representati...

Rush Limbaugh rant, We have achieved, brilliant, highly accomplished African-Americans, blacks, Hispanics, you name it, throughout the Repu...

Note to George Will : If you can't make an honest case for your position on campaign spending, specifically allowing unlimited corpora...

At a bare minimum, you need to vote for politicians who are serious about balancing the budget. How do you know if balancing the budget is ...

One of the terms that should strike fear into your heart when uttered by a government agency is that they've entered into a "cost-...

In sport, a team that has reached a point at which it is guaranteed victory may hesitate to run up the score. A win is a win and, absent th...