This paragraph in a recent Mark Schmitt column from the American Prospect is one of the most important I have read recently. People really should take the time to understand the historic lost opportunity it describes — and we need to remember it, daily, and not allow it to be lost to the midsts of [...]
While everyone tries to figure out what happened in New Hampshire yesterday, Atrios and Josh Marshall, among others, are doing a great job of examining if people reacted to the misogyny that is often driving coverage of Senator Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. Rachel Maddow on MSNBC even went as far as to pin it on Chris [...]
Isn’t it grand what our species can accomplish with our uncontrolled experiment on the environment? ABC News’ Lee Dye writes: We humans are having such a dramatic impact on our planet that some leading scientists think the current era needs a new name. We’re no longer in the Holocene epoch, they say. We’re now well [...]
It sure is good to know that President George W. Bush retains a heathy ego after the past seven years. As Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post explains: With time running short on his presidency — and on the eve of a trip to the Middle East — President Bush seems to have overcome his [...]
Um, so, why all this negative reaction from the punditry to Senator Clinton getting emotional on the campaign trail — when, as Think Progress reminds us, the men get positive points for being “poignant” and “genuine”? The cool kids in the media are far more than passive observers of our politics. We should never lose [...]
The American Prospect’s Dana Goldstein actually attended one of the caucuses held in Iowa the other night. It’s not a pretty picture. At Des Moines’ 23rd Precinct, for example, just three miles from Barack Obama’s triumphant victory party, organizers failed to adequately explain the caucus process, voters publicly protested the participation of two immigrant women, [...]
Almost exactly one year after Newsweek’s Howard Fineman made this horrible analogy, Time’s Michael Scherer decides to boil down the presidential race into a stupid high school clique story. I hope Scherer will pay some royalties to Fineman. Or at least buy him a beer with a smile. Anyway, Mr. Scherer, this campaign is not [...]
Scott Norton catches President George W. Bush once again comparing himself to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, while believing history will vindicate him as it did Harry Truman. Perhaps this is how he gets through the day. It sure beats an accountability moment.
Chris Mooney explains why the time has come to rethink the role of the president’s science advisor: Because formal US science advising was born during the Cold War, the emphasis often lay upon finding someone who intimately grasped nuclear security issues. The tradition lingers up to the present: The past four science advisers, including Marburger, [...]
Mark Penn really is a pox on Democratic politics. Perhaps the media will notice now that he has admitted to being such a pathetic liar about the polling data in advance of the Iowa caucuses. As Josh Marshall writes: But perhaps one really good thing can come out of it: driving Mark Penn out of [...]
