Conventional Wisdom

No Regrets, Let's Clean Up the Mess Together

Jim Selman | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living


Jim Selman

Let's transform our conventional wisdom about age as something that segments and divides us socially, politically, economically and spiritually.

Sotomayor and the New Haven Firefighters Case: More Myths Than Facts

Lanny Davis | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics


Lanny Davis

From a surprisingly broad left-to-right spectrum, the Conventional Wisdom punditry seems to have decided that Judge Sotomayor was wrong on the law.

Is Cap-And-Trade Dead This Year?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Democrats are all but admitting that they're killing off cap-and-trade for this year's legislative season. When the time comes, they will be blaming the Republicans, even though their own cowardice is the real culprit.

Q&A with Housing Bubble Forecaster Dean Baker

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business


Leo W. Gerard

Baker: "For most economists, the idea that a market would take leave from its senses -- that it would be driven by speculation -- is almost inconceivable."

The Seven Biggest Conventional Wisdom Blunders Of The 2008 Election

Salon | Mike Madden and Walter Shapiro | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics


This has been a campaign season when the conventional wisdom has fared about as well as Bob Barr's prospects for moving into the Oval Office. During ...

Play 23/6's Conventional Wisdom Game And You Could Win $1,000!

236.com | 23/6: The News, But Funnier | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics


Don't have a clue about the national political conventions? Think David Axelrod is the less-talented brother of that guy from Guns 'n' Roses? Have we ...

John McCain, Paris Hilton, and the Politics of Nothing

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

The McCain camp knows that the only way they can win the election is to turn it into a carnival sideshow. If this is where they have taken the political discourse in early August, what have they got for us come October?

Jason Linkins

Attack Of The Conventional Wisdom: Media Narrative Tilts Toward The Obvious

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The fact that we have reached the zero hour is a great relief, if only because the media is running out of things to say.