(17 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 9, 2007
Why I Didn't Buy A Dell, Dude: An Open Letter to the Eighth Richest Man in America An appeal to the rumored conscience of one of President Bush's wealthiest supporters.

SHARE        Saturday, July 5, 2008
How a Surge "Works" With miles and miles of concrete walls. If you can't imprison the entire nation, turn the entire nation into a prison.

(8 comments) SHARE        Saturday, February 16, 2008
So the War Isn't Gonna Be an Issue, eh? Forget the pundits and the polls. The defeat of two incumbent Congressmen in last Tuesday's Maryland primary demonstrate one thing -- It's the war, stupid.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Is Obama a Self-Hating White? What Booker T & the MGs Have To Do With It The visceral opposition by many white people to Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign than his refusal to accept the offer of a privileged place in their world. It's more the reaction of a lover scorned.

(11 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 13, 2007
And the Band Played On: Al Gore, the Nobel Prize, and Holocaust Deniers A reflection on the future, and the future is now.

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 7, 2008
Those Crazy Kagans, America's War-Lovingest Family When this family gets together, it's just one big war whoop.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, July 31, 2008
Should the Government Just Sell Naming Rights? The millions of dollars corporations are donating to sponsor the Democratic and Republican national conventions suggest a whole new way to fund the government.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, February 29, 2008
Obama's Talking Points Barack Obama's presidential is all talk, his critics say. Is that so? And if it is, is that a bad thing?

(6 comments) SHARE        Monday, March 10, 2008
How to End the War in One Day And it requires almost no effort on your part.

(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 24, 2008
The Year of Living Irrelevantly President Bush went to the Middle East to show that he's still relevant and ended up proving just the opposite. Don't let it get you down, George. I know just how you feel.

SHARE        Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Blue-Collar Workers=The Taliban: John McCain's "Elitism" When it comes to looking down on working-class Americans, a John McCain adviser makes Barack Obama look like a piker.

SHARE        Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Politics in the 21st Century, or What I Wouldn't Give for a Good Soundbite The reduction of our political discourse to a single word -- be it Barack Obama's "Change," Hillary Clinton's "Ready," or John Edwards' "Fight" -- leaves me reaching for Mike Huckabee's. "Christ!"

SHARE        Friday, December 21, 2007
Sowing Seeds in the Vast Wasteland: The Birth of The Real News The Real News -- a web-based, viewer-supported video news service, represents one of the most promising developments in the news media since Al Gore invented the internet.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 17, 2007
Children of Abraham The nightmare in Gaza must end.

SHARE        Thursday, December 27, 2007
Christmas Around the World An examination of the rituals of Christmas and how they resonate around the globe.

SHARE        Thursday, April 10, 2008
Find the Cost of Freedom? $20,000 Per I guess Martin Luther King was right: Freedom is not free.

SHARE        Friday, July 11, 2008
Democracy Comes to Iraq (Should We Try It Here?) The negotiations over the Status of Forces Agreement show the Iraqis are getting the hang of this democracy thing. Now if only we could.

(5 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Getting Snowed Former White House press secretary and conservative pundit Tony Snow faced his fatal illness with great personal courage and humor, and by all accounts, he was a man of considerable decency towards others. How many sins does that excuse?

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, March 17, 2008
The Wright Stuff So much for the truth setting you free.

SHARE        Saturday, February 2, 2008
The Race Card: A South Carolina Post-Mortem The Clinton campaign's identity politics strategy almost worked, but it didn't quite work. And now they have a problem.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 26, 2008
The Politics of Race, Clinton-Style In a maneuver worthy of Karl Rove, the Clintons have Barack Obama right where they want him. No matter who wins today's South Carolina primary, Obama loses.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, June 28, 2008
When Novak Draws the Knife Maybe you can lose the left of your party and survive. Maybe you can lose the right of your party and survive. But when you lose the assassins of your party, you got problems.

SHARE        Sunday, April 13, 2008
Bush's Latest Fraud A debate on the PBS Newshour reveals the practical effect of President Bush's announcement that future deployments to Iraq will be limited to 12 months is absolutely nothing.

SHARE        Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Today Is Super Tuesday. Will Republicans Finally Bail on Bush on Wednesday? With the threat of primary challenges over, will Republicans start to come to their senses?

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 25, 2008
The Contrarian Nature of George W. Bush If George Bush was a character in the movie Little Big Man, who would he be?

SHARE        Friday, February 1, 2008
Meet Our New Attorney General: Michael Mugreasy