Brad Plumer and Noam Scheiber have a good article about the loathsome GOP corporate lackey Haley Barbour, the kind of "small government" Republican who ensures that any budget deal contains plenty of tobacco subsidies. And the kind of "anti-tax" Republican who, given an ultra-regressive 7%...
Republican malgovernance
Brian Beutler has an intelligent intervention into the discussion surrounding Jon Chait's new book. To add on a bit to his argument, I'd like to address this from McArdle:My quarrel.
A few thoughts on the at-long-last end of a rags-to-fascism success story:One of the few contrarian arguments ever to turn out to be right was Yglesias's qualified defense of John.
Brad Plumer has the details on mountaintop-removal mining and the Bush administration's inevitable but still-appalling attempts to ensure more of it with toothless legal restraints. Garance fills us in on both the Democratic reaction and on civilian activism.
Hey, Robert Mugabe likes the American move towards arbitrary executive power just fine!
Indeed. It really doesn't seem to have dawned on the administration that explicit American support may not actually help more liberal factions in countries with strong anti-American sentiments, although the.
An absolute must-read article by Wayne Barrett in -- I swear it, I guess for a week they decided to get away from the escort-ads-plus-Nat-Hentoff-and-Michael-Musto format they've been essaying for the past year -- the Village Voice systematically destroying the myth of Rudy Giuliani, Terrorism...
Who could have predicted it? Taking away resources that could have been used to actually go terrorists that posed a potential threat to American civilians in order to destroy a.
It's always refreshing, in this postmodern age, when political struggles can be clearly drawn battles between good and evil:The fight over a popular health insurance program for children is intensifying,.
Shorter Dick Cheney: I belong to the branch of government that, being not something that can be created by any "Constitution," is beyond any standard of law or morality....a valuable civics lesson!
The U.S. Attorney had to know he was in trouble with the Bush administration. What was his offense, you might ask? Corruption? Refusing to prosecute serious crimes? Hitting on Laura.
Good question: Hiring for career positions in the Justice Department was being done on the basis of the political positions of the applicants. If you don't think Gonzales deserves impeachment.