I guess I always assumed that most economists were political hacks hiding behind academic credentials. I don't have a problem with academics looking to influence public policy. But it is a fine line between supporting a political candidate and sacrificing professional credibility in service of...
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Leave it to the geniuses at Politico to win the award for Worst Media Response to Todd Akin's rape comments. Dave Catanese stepped up to the plate on this one:.
It's really hard to see how Adam Davidson's tenure at NPR can continue after this powerful report linking his "journalism" to his real job as a paid shill for the.
David Brooks imagines Shakespeare's Henry V in an American school circa 2012. Uh..... It's every bit as terrible as you might imagine. So instead of quoting this garbage, let's quote Pierce instead: Look, I like you people. I really do. But do I have to...
Neil Munro, briefly famous for interrupting Obama last week since he knew the president wasn't going to take questions, refuses to take questions about his actions.
You can always count on Digby to completely tear apart someone like Fareed Zakaria, who blathered on about the need for Democrats to follow the lead of Andrew Cuomo and.
Adam Ozimek says something really stupid: Amidst this conversation, host of PBS’s Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman, repeated a highly misleading talking point, contributing. It’s a claim you’ve probably seen it a hundred times before, that the wealth of the six Waltons, who own Walmart, is...
I just don't understand some types of liberals. This is particularly true of the self-hating liberal who consistently believes that if we only ignored those naughty conservatives like Rush Limbaugh.
Ruben Navarrette suffers from the condition known as Beltwayitis. It's when pundits and politicians hang out together all the time without ever discussing anything of substance that might get in.
Jon Lovett just completely destroys Lanny Davis in one of the greatest takedowns of 2012. See Lanny got mad because Lovett said this on Twitter after Davis defended Cory Booker: There is too much wrong with Washington to say "So and so represents everything that's...
E.J. Dionne's op-ed today imbibes deeply in a mythological view of conservatism's past. Noting what he sees as a traditional conservative embrace of community over individualism, Dionne cherry-picks his way.
I'm glad the highly principled Lanny Davis has come to the defense of helpless Cory Booker and against Democrats' mean attacks on both the mayor of Newark and Mittens' experience.