The Stopped Clock

In response to David Hoffman's argument, "a national conversation about guns and violence, facilitated and sped up by the internet...

Dave Hoffman suggests that we are "forced by the Internet to nationalize problems", and as a result it is "harder for local ...

Congress jumps . Gridlock, partisanship... it all melts away. 12/17/2012 - Introduced in House 12/18/2012 - Passed/agreed to in House: On...

Harold Meyerson repeats the common belief that Michigan's rushed-through anti-union law was meant to punish unions for daring to attem...

Paul Krugman hopes that the President doesn't believe in "invisible bond vigilantes", But here’s a passage that bothered me:...

The Republican Party is apparently urging Democratic-leaning swing states to abandon "winner takes all" in favor of a pro-Republi...

I don't often see push-back against right-wing orthodoxy from the AEI but, in an article entitled Trillion-dollar deficits are sustaina...

I hate it. Start up, log in, now there are the metro tiles. If you've ever purchased a Windows computer and found desktop links to a d...

Via " 90º Degrees to the Left ", the apparent Republican "fiscal cliff" strategy:

Back when I was a kid, a constant refrain was that Social Security was going to go bankrupt and that it would not be around when I eventual...

'Cuz that's when the knives come out . Guangdong Propaganda Department: Do not reprint, report, or comment on the incident of a ten...

Although a growing number of Republicans are willing to refuse to sign Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge, or repudiate their signature...

It's not that he gets off to a good start - he's eager to jump sharks from the word "go" - but how can the man look himse...

I generally don't read Jennifer Rubin. I think she's smart enough to write something interesting or informative, but she has no app...

CJR offers the case in favor of newspaper paywalls. But as the article indicates, " A paywall is not a magic solution". Newspape...

When I approach the issues as covered by the media and leading media figures, alas, it's difficult to take a positive approach to the d...

You would think that our national experience would teach us something: The Republicans are very good at cutting taxes and spending money, b...

A week or two ago I saw a Republican commentator complaining about how mean President Obama was to Mitt Romney during the election campaign...

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...