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- Suddenly, a Trillion Is Too Much? - July 2, 2009
- If Americans hope to discuss health care, climate change, green economics or public infrastructure with any degree of realism, then the time has come to acknowledge that...
- Which Political Party is "Decadent" and "Sick"? - Salon - June 26, 2009
- June 26, 2009 | Whenever the latest Republican politician is caught with his zipper undone, a predictable moment of introspection on the right inevitably ensues....
- The Sickening Addiction That May Ruin Reform - June 25, 2009
- If Congress fails to enact health care reform this year -- or if it enacts a sham reform designed to bail out corporate medicine while excluding the "public option" --...
- An Obama 'Scandal' as Phony as Whitewater - Salon - June 19, 2009
- The AMA's Unhealthy Obsession - June 18, 2009
- Campaigning to build the widest possible consensus for reform of the nation's health care system, Barack Obama told the delegates of the American Medical Association...
- Why So Scared of a Public Plan? - June 11, 2009
- Within the coming weeks, Americans will begin to consider critical issues concerning the future of health care for themselves and their children, including universal...
- Domestic Terrorism by Any Standard - June 4, 2009
- If right-wing broadcasters don't want to be blamed when someone murders a person they have demonized repeatedly -- as in the case of George Tiller, the doctor shot dead...
- Why Obama's Court Pick is Already a Winner - May 28, 2009
- Choosing Sonia Sotomayor as his first nominee to the United States Supreme Court will allow Barack Obama to prove three important things. As a politician, he is not...
- Obama's Pick Is a Winner, Already - New York Observer - May 27, 2009
- Choosing Sonia Sotomayor as his first nominee to the United States Supreme Court will allow Barack Obama to prove three important things. As a politician, he is not...
- Cheney and the Iraq-Torture Link - May 21, 2009
- Defending their record in office these past eight years, figures from the last administration seem especially touchy on the subject of torture. Led by the former vice...
- Beware the Bad-Faith Reformer - May 14, 2009
- Uplifting as it was to see insurance executives, pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospital officials and doctors gather at the White House on May 11, pledging cooperation...
- Those Brand New Humble Republicans - May 7, 2009
- Hoping to re-brand their declining party, a group of prominent Republicans recently launched a national "listening tour," presumably as an exercise in market research....
- Selling a Toxic GOP Brand - New York Observer - May 6, 2009
- Combating Epidemic Ignorance - April 30, 2009
- In the turbulent imagination of the hard-core conservative, American foreign policy should be about telling off the rest of the planet. According to the right-wing...
- Torture and Truthiness - Salon - April 27, 2009
- Don't Substitute Macho for Foreign Policy - April 23, 2009
- Few aspects of American politics are as ridiculous and dangerous as the right-wing urge to substitute macho posturing for foreign policy. That irrepressible habit...
- The Tea Party Brigade - April 16, 2009
- If conservative leaders no longer even try to offer serious solutions to national problems, nobody should underestimate their capacity or their will to mobilize angry...
- Obama, Don't Waffle on Engagement with Cuba - Salon - April 13, 2009
- Obama: The Extremists' Nightmare - April 9, 2009
- Touring the ancient Ottoman capital of Istanbul, Obama stood as a living refutation of extremist propaganda before he spoke a single word. Son and grandson of African...
- President is An Extremist’s Nightmare - New York Observer - April 8, 2009
- The French Are Right (Again) - Salon - April 3, 2009
- No More Refuge for Scoundrels - April 2, 2009
- According to a new investigative report from "ABC News," Cassano is the subject of a criminal fraud investigation by the FBI that is examining how he and his...
- Blaming Obama for a Bush Economy - March 26, 2009
- In fact, the economy had been shrinking for nearly a year by then, and the market was responding to bad economic news rather than the election result. ...
- Push Back Against AIG's Brightest - March 19, 2009
- It should be obvious by now that the AIG traders, along with many others like them, deserved to be fired and perhaps prosecuted rather than enriched. The...
- Dumbest Proposal Ever? - March 13, 2009
- From those Republican politicians often deemed most thoughtful, such as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, comes a droning chorus for tax cuts on capital...
- Be Thankful the GOP Isn't in Charge - New York Observer - March 11, 2009
- If President Barack Obama’s response to the economic crisis is imperfect, as he acknowledges, and if the Congressional Democrats leave much to be desired as well, then...
- Important Questions Our Healthcare Debate Ignores - Salon - March 9, 2009
- Rushing Toward Irrelevance - March 5, 2009
- At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington last week, Rush Limbaugh declared that new ideas ought to be shunned by every right-thinking...
- Pushed To the Margins, Finally - February 26, 2009
- So as President Obama convened his "fiscal responsibility summit" and then delivered his first address to Congress, the voices of free-market fundamentalism...
- Stimulus a Landmark Victory for Obama - February 19, 2009
- Entering the Oval Office, Obama had set a daunting and somewhat contradictory set of priorities for himself. He had promised to remake the American economy even as he...
- Stronger, Please, Mr. President - February 12, 2009
- As the debate over the stimulus unfolded, the still mighty conservative propaganda machine incessantly churned out three talking points, encountering very...
- The Bankruptcy of Ideological Conservatism - NY Observer - February 11, 2009
- Stimulus Skeptics Wrong (Again) - February 5, 2009
- At the top of the myth list is the Republican faith in tax cuts, particularly those designed to benefit wealthy investors. Anyone who has been paying...
- Let the Limbaughs Whine - January 29, 2009
- With those words, he turned his ample silhouette into the rhetorical target of choice for Mr. Obama, who warned the Republican leadership that they "can't...
- Let the Limbaughs Whine - New York Observer - January 28, 2009
- Obama and the New Center - January 22, 2009
- "On this day" he said, "we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. On this day, we come to proclaim an end...
- The Party of No Ideas - January 15, 2009
- Leaving aside the boilerplate about wasteful federal spending -- which never troubled the Republicans on either side of Capitol Hill when they were...
- Do Republicans Have Any New Proposals? - New York Observer - January 14, 2009
- Franken Stole the Election? Prove It or Shut Up - Salon - January 10, 2009
- The recount shows that he won the Minnesota Senate race. The lying liars who say otherwise have no evidence of cheating.By Joe ConasonRead more: U.S. Senate, Joe...
- Hypocrisy From the Party of Pork - January 8, 2009
- And today, at a moment when economists of all stripes agree that we must spend big and spend fast to forestall a depression, the timing of the Republican...