The notion that marriage is threatened by legally sanctioned relationships because of sexual orientation is patently absurd.
John Knefel | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
To assume that Obama wants the public option based only on rhetoric is the height of idiocy. Do we assume a husband loves his wife simply because he says he does, despite years of infidelity?
Edward Murray | Posted 11.10.2009 | Comedy
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The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Speech or no speech, it looks like House liberals have no intention whatsoever of easing their pressure on Obama to keep a meaningful public option in...
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Leaders of the liberal wing of the party -- not necessarily the elected leadership of the House -- must use their powers of persuasion and their skills in compromise to sway the debate in favor of change, most critically with progressive voters.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
I agreed to do the show because it was about moms and daughters, a topic on which there's no political epicenter, and because my daughter was participating in the interview.
Sandy Goodman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
As a lifelong FDR Democrat, I won't support any health care bill that doesn't have a robust public option. I'd much rather see a bill without one go down to defeat, than have a bill pass without one.
Posted 10.19.2009 | Denver
Rumors that incumbent Democratic Senator Michael Bennet may face a primary challenge from former Speaker of the Colorado House Andrew Romanoff are now...
Rick Rolf | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
Each Senator's office has its own culture with widely diverging degrees of humanity on display. Senator Kennedy's office was heart first, heads close behind -- a critical, illuminating reflection of the Senator himself.
Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Single payer health care is the only option that makes sense, which is why Congress has it, and why I want it.
Steven Waldman | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Far from being an ideologue, Kennedy was invariably the guy going for the deal, as he was during the creation of AmeriCorps.
Shawna Vercher | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Now we have a choice. Does health care reform pass away as legend and a political footnote?
Jay Michaelson | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
If tomorrow, you could completely free yourself from guilt -- if you'd never feel guilty again, no matter what you did -- would you do it? Americans ...
Chez Pazienza | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Paul Krugman's editorial, which takes Obama to task for supposedly betraying the progressive base that helped put him in office, is a perfect example of the self-defeating splinter cell tendency of left-wing politics.
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
A major factor in President Obama's slide in today's big Washington Post/ABC News poll, which is preoccupying the political classes today, is his surp...
Bob Burnett | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Through eight nightmarish years, Liberals were remarkably well behaved: none of us carried assault weapons to Bush appearances, accused him of being a traitor, or shouted "kill him" at rallies.
Soren Gordhamer | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
Can we step out of our identities that are constantly looking for ways to justify themselves and to put down the other, and open to a deeper presence and wisdom?
Wall Street Journal | KRIS MAHER and JAKE SHERMAN | Posted 09.16.2009 | Home
PITTSBURGH -- There's growing frustration among some liberal activists that the Democratic Party may be tilting toward moderates, leaving many wonderi...
Jim Selman | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
Is there still time to recover and restore American Democracy to its bare essentials -- a government "of the people, by the people and for the people"? I don't know. Today we are on the brink.
Michael Shermer | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Anyone who follows politics knows the standard stereotype of what liberals think of conservatives, and what conservatives think of liberals. They both have an element of truth.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
The problem with discussing "issues of race," is that it dummies down the issue of racism to an individual level, when the real problem is at the macro level.
Bruce E. Levine | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
Conservative-liberal American society is sure of itself. It is sure of which cultures are backwards and which personalities need to be modified.
John Milewski | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
Do we really need to be respectful of the views of the scarily unhinged, tragically misinformed, or strategically dishonest?
The Plum Line | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has consulted with a surprisingly diverse ideological bunch in the course of creating the major foreign policy spee...
Peter Clothier | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
Do we really want to nitpick our current Democratic President to shreds, and clear the path for another right-wing ideologue to follow him.
Michael J. Wilson | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics