Despite Andrew Cuomo's admirable push for gay marriage, he is a horrible governor. As a "Democrat," Cuomo has declared war on unions, on the environment, and on everything Democrats theoretically stand for, outside of gay marriage. And again, while his stance on that single issue is...
I have long had tremendous difficulty understanding the opposition of fossil fuel companies to new fuel technologies. For instance: The oil and gas industry gave astrophysicist Willie Soon more than.
Scott has already noted Jon Chait's objection to the quasi-royalist subtext of Mark Halperin's suspension (Halperin is a juvenile hack, but if that were a firing offense there would be.
Granted, birthers are pretty oppressed. But if there's anybody more downtrodden than the poor sap who has to try to feed a family of four on a mere $500K a year in a desirable urban area, I'd have to say that it's Bernie Madoff: “Maybe the...
Apparently, a complete dick has been suspended by MSNBC for one of the least offensive things he's ever said.
It's a bit of an upset, but good to see the 6CA panel do the right thing. It should be noted that while both majority opinions do an excellent job.
Those damned Finns--labor radicals in 1911, sex radicals in 2011. What are we to do with them? America is predictably middling in the promiscuity index. Though interestingly a notch above the French.
Maryland has a surprisingly lame history of prominent politicians. Given its proximity to the nation's capital and its relatively high population for a small state, one might expect more from.
Whether it's based on racist condescension or some other form of ignorance, the idea that Thomas is Scalia's sockpuppet was always wrong in an offensive way, and is becoming more.
Ezra: Let’s agree that what matters isn’t how many jobs you “get caught trying” to create, but how many jobs you actually create. There’s virtually no evidence that if Obama makes more speeches on jobs, his poll numbers will go up or the labor market will...
My column this week is on the technological implications of the Obama administration's excuse for avoiding the WPR: In the future, however, presidents may resort to airpower in order to.
First, she confused her John Waynes, and now her John Adamses. Shorter Michele Bachmann: I don't care if John Quincy Adams was only nine, he was a founding father.