The Revolution Isn't Over: Freedom's Painful Price
Before she was arrested, tortured, stripped and subjected to a "virginity exam" — all for her pro-democracy activities — Salwa al-Housiny Gouda admired the Egyptian Army.
View ArticleBeware Condemning Barack Obama For A Low Bully Pulpit Profile
Peppered with complaints about his relative silence and flagging leadership, the president urges his friends and allies to be patient.
View ArticleGOP Wants To Pay For Health Care After All
A bill that Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) introduced in January would provide federal funds for the purchase of sonogram machines at organizations that counsel women against having an abortion (the...
View ArticleDriving Ms. Bachmann: The Most Embarrassing Republican Presidential...
For respectable Republicans, the embarrassment potential may be at an all-time high. The party is a year away from picking its next presidential candidate and never in the modern era has it faced a...
View ArticleTip Offs That Karl Rove Is A Perpetual Liar
There are certain tip-offs that suggest when somebody is misleadingly describing a politicians' position.
View ArticleTeaparty, More Dumb Than Clever
Although I'm not part of the Tea Party movement and I don't share its values, I usually understand what its followers are trying to do. But their latest gambit on health care has me genuinely baffled.
View ArticleRepublican Policies Don't Care About Poor People
I'm not saying that congressional Republicans don't care about poor people. But they really care about rich people.
View ArticleMad Men and Mad Women: Republicans And Social Engineering
Republicans hate social engineering, unless they're doing it.
View Article"An Inherent Relationship": A Primer on Class Struggle
When we study Marx in my graduate social theory course, it never fails that at least one student will say (approximately), "Class struggle didn't escalate in the way Marx expected. In modern capitalist...
View ArticleLawmakers And Lobbyist: Cutting Out the Middleman
For six years, Doug Stafford was a lobbyist for the National Right to Work Committee, an anti-labor group financed by business and conservative interests.
View ArticleWomen And "Husband Issues": We Work Hard, But Who's Complaining?
In the current storm over public employee unions rattling the Midwest, this issue of gender is usually overlooked. Women, working as state clerks, teachers and nurses, dominate the organized public...
View ArticleDon't Try This At Home But, How You Can Pull A General Electric On Taxes
There's been a firestorm this week over the news that General Electric will pay no tax—at least, no federal corporate income tax—on last year's profits. But if you're like a lot of people, your first...
View ArticleRepublican Balanced Budget Amendment: The Worst Idea In Washington
Bruce Bartlett takes a look at the Balanced Budget Amendment all 47 Republicans signed their names to and pronounces it "quite possibly the stupidest constitutional amendment I think I have ever seen.
View ArticleKSM Decision: Place The Blame Where Blame Is Due
Holder told reporters this afternoon that his original decision was still the right one, but blamed Congress for "tying our hands."
View ArticleWhen Lies Don't Work, Try "Bait And Switch": What Paul Ryan's Budget Actually...
Paul Ryan's plan for Medicare and Paul Ryan's plan for Medicaid rely on the same bait-and-switch: They use a reform to disguise a cut.
View ArticleCutting Through The Medicare Charade
In his Wall Street Journal op-ed today, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said the Republican budget plan is focused on "saving Medicare."
View ArticleWith Truants And Teabaggers In Congress, How Do We Stop The Next Shutdown...
How did we get to the brink? And what lessons can we apply from the past to ensure this scenario doesn't arise again?
View ArticleWisconsin Supreme Court Election: Every Vote Must Be Counted
Many voters went to sleep in Wisconsin and thought they woke up in Florida on Friday after a "Republican activist" county clerk announced that she discovered an extra 14,315 votes in a hotly contested...
View ArticleA Vision Of Optimism And Equal Opportunity: What It Means To Be A Democrat
I'm glad I waited for President Obama's heralded budget speech Wednesday before criticizing it (such a novel idea); there was much to praise in it and little to challenge.
View ArticleThe Long Game In The Budget Battles: Advantage Obama
Late last year, when President Obama overhauled his economic team, some people complained that the departure of Larry Summers and Christina Romer left the White House short of first-rate economists.
View ArticlePragmatic Policy vs Ideological Philosophy
For some time now, Democrats and Republicans alike have been yearning for a great philosophical clash between the two parties. No more of this five percent of 12 percent of the federal budget stuff.
View ArticleMitt! Mitt! Mitt!: It's A Bad Sign When One Of Your Errors Is Your Book Title
This was the week we've been waiting for! Decades into the future, you will be able to tell your grandchildren where you were when Mitt Romney announced that he had formed a presidential exploratory...
View ArticleModern Snake Oil: "We Have No Revenue Problem"
OK, this is the day everyone hates. You have to pay your taxes. Who wants to write that check? Nobody, probably.
View ArticleStandard And Poor's Attempt To Influence The Political Debate
In what appears to be an attempt to influence the political debate in Washington over federal government deficits, Standards & Poor's rating firm downgraded U.S. debt to negative from stable.
View ArticleWe Don't Have A Spending Problem, We Have A Fraud Problem
Conservatives seem to have a knack for changing the subject whenever their backs are up against the wall.
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