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- 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...
- 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...
- What Nixon Admitted (and Cheney Won't) - December 26, 2008
- Asked by Frost to explain how he could justify illegal wiretapping, black-bag jobs and other gross violations of law in collecting intelligence on the...
- Obama Has Mishandled the Blagojevich Matter - Salon - December 19, 2008
- Should She Be Senator Kennedy? - December 18, 2008
- Now, after a decade of writing and editing books, raising money for public schools in New York City and leading a mostly private life, Ms. Kennedy is seeking...
- The Matter of Caroline's Qualifications - New York Observer - December 17, 2008
- Dangerous Bias Against Detroit - December 12, 2008
- Media coverage of the auto crisis has been powerfully biased against assistance to the industry, in part because reporters, editors and TV producers -- not to mention...
- A Ruinous Bias Against Helping Detroit - New York Observer - December 10, 2008
- Spend, Obama, Spend! And Save Jobs - Salon - December 8, 2008
- Not a Team of Rivals At All - December 4, 2008
- According to that storyline, Obama will soon find himself in conflict not only with Clinton but also with Robert Gates, the holdover Bush defense secretary,...
- Not a Team of Rivals at All - New York Observer - December 2, 2008
- Obama's Shrewd Choices - November 27, 2008
- If resumes represented destiny, then there would certainly be cause for concern. After all, most of Mr. Obama's top advisers -- notably including...
- Obama's Unoriginal, Shrewd Choices - New York Observer - November 26, 2008
- Why Obama Can Keep Gates - November 21, 2008
- First it is important to recall that the president-elect vowed to bring change to politics as well as policy. The Obama administration would foster...
- The Case for Robert Gates - November 20, 2008
- First it is important to recall that the president-elect vowed to bring change to politics as well as policy. The Obama administration would foster bipartisan...
- Obama's Clinton Initiative - New York Observer - November 17, 2008
- Who's Afraid of a Filibuster? - November 13, 2008
- The short answer is no -- and the new president's own political arsenal should enable him to call the Republican bluff. Let's count the actual...
- The Republican Realignment That Wasn't - Salon - November 10, 2008