To the millions of grassroots activists and fundraisers who came of age in the 2008 election, the year 2000 seems like the era of the dinosaurs - a time when the fundraising landscape was the fiercely guarded territory of corporate behemoths, whose massive footprints and titanic struggles for dominance made...

As in every Supreme Court confirmation hearing, in Judge Sonia Sotomayor's questioning before the Senate yesterday, accusations of "judicial activism" are flying thick and fast. But what exactly is this thing called "judicial activism" that everyone seems so worried about? Yesterday, both Senator Orrin Hatch as well as an op-ed...

Last week columnist David Brooks of the New York Times published an op-ed setting out two explanatory narratives of our current economic crisis, which he dubbed the "greed narrative" and the "stupidity narrative." Brooks describes the greed narrative (as detailed in Simon Johnson's Atlantic piece "The Quiet Coup"...

Roads and bridges apparently lack the headline value of Kennedys and Clintons, and Friday's unanimous Senate confirmation of Obama's nominee for Secretary of Transportation Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) excited little news commentary. This is a crying shame because roads and bridges - and the lucrative contracts for their construction --...