39 Articles

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The Myth of "Superior Executive Experience"
Deconstructing the false dichotomy between "executive" and legislative experience.

Saturday, August 9, 2008
Is Dissecting Poll Data a Waste of Time ?
(2 comments) In the age of caging and voting machine hackery, is all the agonizing over polling data, energy misplaced?

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Naomi Klein Helping Me UnLearn What I Learned in Business School
(8 comments) Naomi Klein, in "The Shock Doctrine," makes me see how - while in business school - I got carried away with elegant theories that masked the pain they caused.

Monday, July 7, 2008
BOOK REVIEW: Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy, by Jeffrey Feldman
(2 comments) Review of Jeffrey Feldman's latest book.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Reporting on Senator Biden at the Center for American Progress
(3 comments) Reporting from Sen. Biden's recent talk at the Center for American Progress

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Hillary's Hypocrisy
(4 comments) Hillary's Starting to Scare Me

Wednesday, April 2, 2008
MSM's Confusion on Security Gives McCain a Pass
(5 comments) The mainstream media persists in confusing matters of defense with matters of security; military experience with civilian leadership. That confusion works in McCain's favor.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Obama's Speech on Race
(8 comments) Obama's speech on race calls us to a higher level of discourse. Can we - and the MSM - meet him there?

Friday, March 7, 2008
If Hillary Makes History, Will it Matter?
(1 comments) What does it mean to have the first woman president?

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Obama is no Cult Leader
(3 comments) Those who accuse Obama of leading a cult following need to consider what a cult really is.

Friday, February 1, 2008
The Real Feel-Good Party
(10 comments) Republicans would rather live in a fantasy world of saving face, than deal with the real issues.

Thursday, January 17, 2008
What Makes a Good Leader?
(1 comments) The clash between Obama and Clinton over management philosophies touches on key questions of presidential leadership.

Monday, January 14, 2008
Republican Rage
(29 comments) Republican free-floating rage is reinforced by self-defeating neo-con policies.

Monday, December 31, 2007
George Will's Helpful Explanation of Conservative Virtue
George Will helpfully explains the difference between social conservatives and everybody else. You see, it's just that we progressives don't care about virtue.

Friday, December 28, 2007
The Mindless Mainstream Media
(2 comments) Why won't the corporate media examine such tossed-about phrases as "the enemy" and "terror suspects?"

Thursday, December 13, 2007
Corporate Media Enables Right Wing Distortion of "Religious Liberty"
(1 comments) The corporate media is making it easier for the Republican Religious Right base to pass extreme views off as mainstream. The media stars display their own ignorance in the process.

Thursday, December 6, 2007
One Nation, Without Irony
Romney is happy to accept America's tolerance, without extending his own.

Thursday, November 22, 2007
Improvising Enemies
(4 comments) Attacks on Barack Obama's faith have implications far beyond Election 2008

Thursday, November 8, 2007
Hillary and Gender, One More Time
(5 comments) The gender dynamics for Hillary are different in the primary campaign, than they were with Rick Lazio as her opponent.

Friday, July 6, 2007
DC Deserves a Variety of Progressive Talk
(7 comments) The DC market for progressive talk radio is being underserved.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Libby and the Flirtation Deflection
(2 comments) Republicans deflect serious discussions of Republican corruption with blushing, giggling, females.

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Why Ann Coulter Fascinates (and Disagreeing with Rob)
(1 comments) I disagree with Rob Kall's defense of Ann Coulter - and offer my own theory of her notoriety.

Monday, June 25, 2007
Obama's Challenge: Navigating the Religious Rhetoric Minefield
(1 comments) Barack Obama tries to claim religion back from the Right, without offending civil libertarians.

Thursday, May 17, 2007
Republican Candidates' Pro-Torture Glee
Arguments against most Republican presidential candidates' adolescent view of torture.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Don't Blame Veganism for Child Neglect
(1 comments) A tragically misguided couple was found guilty of leading to the death of their six-week-old infant, by failing to feed him enough. The judge blamed their veganism. The judge is misinformed.

Thursday, May 3, 2007
BOOK REVIEW: Greg Palast's Armed Madhouse, new edition
Review of Greg Palast's latest book.

Saturday, April 21, 2007
Blaming the Victim
(2 comments) The Right's blaming of the Virginia Tech victims for their own deaths is, of course, despicable. But it also belies a self-protective mechanism, and a dysfunctional worldview.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Regret for Rewards Earned
(3 comments) If stay-at-home moms come to regret their unpaid labor, perhaps they should demand change, rather than blame themselves.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
The Sexual Politics of the Plame Affair
(1 comments) The real message of the outing of Valerie Plame to discredit her husband, is not about nepotism. It is about impugning Joe Wilson's masculinity.

Thursday, March 15, 2007
Pace's Defender More Outrageous than Pace
(7 comments) Duncan Hunter's defense of Peter Pace was more outrageous than Pace's statements on homosexuality.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Cheney's Pelosi Ploy
The Escalation mindset continues with Cheney's attack on Pelosi.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
In the Shadow of Greatness
A speechwriting class, and the opportunity to hear Obama live, leave me standing in the shadow of great talent.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Condescending to Parents Over the HPV Vaccine
(1 comments) The "promiscuity" argument against the HPV Vaccine claims to promote parental control. In reality, it doesn't give parents enough credit.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Plea to Barack Obama Not to Pre-emptively Swift-Boat Himself
By apologizing for his "wasted" comment, Barack Obama is internalizing Bush & Co. "Reality On Its Head" rhetoric, and pre-emptively swift-boating himself in the process.

Thursday, January 18, 2007
Cheney a Master of "Framing"
Dick Cheney uses multiple levels of the "framing" that George Lakoff made famous during the last presidential election to distort the debate on Iraq.

Friday, January 12, 2007
T. Colin Campbell: Swimming Upstream to Inform the Public
(2 comments) T. Colin Campbell has risked his reputation to bring groundbreaking research on diet and disease to the public.

Thursday, December 21, 2006
Fighting the Enemies of Liberty - and "Dangerous" Questions
While "fighting the enemies of liberty,"

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
A Stop to Escalating Commitment
Republicans are left, at the close of campaign 2006, with the charge that Democrats want to "give up" and "lose" in Iraq. They haven't learned from administrative scientists, or from Vietnam, that throwing good money after bad is not a rational strategy.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Bush's Scary Pre-Halloween Speech
Liar-In-Chief Bush continues to distort reality and offer juvenile oversimplifications of hard truths with outrageous statements in his 'policy of fear' campaign.