Marty Kaplan writes about big problems with our political primary system: What I'm trying to get at is the stupendous sense of powerlessness among our citizenry that our current political system has created. It's as though the best democracy can do is to cough up this beast that we're being…
I received the following from a friend of mine, who sent it to his local paper as well. I’ve asked his permission to post it here, in its entirety. It concerns an issue which, while we may hope represents an unfortunate part of our history long outgrown, still rears its…
Compliments of Dana Milbank. For those who'd like to reminisce.
Paul Krugman points his finger at the ever-more-visible source of the problem. Our economy is extremely fragile and we are all about to pay the price--we'll not all of us . . . Now the bill is coming due, and almost everyone - that is, almost everyone except the people…
According to this post at Alternet, there are many forms of rampant self-indulgence. The GOP specializes in the most pernicious forms: While the culture at large was adjusting to the idea that families don't all look the same and that private sexual morality was not the business of the state,…