There's been a lot of good stuff about the nutty comments coming from the right regarding "real America," pro-American parts of the country (read: sma...
Jack Helmuth | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
Well, it depends on who you are. Here are some ideas for all sorts of people, of which you must certainly be one.
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
I am getting dozens of emails asking me how as a supporter of Israel I can vote for Barack Obama. Let me explain.
Emily Pease | Posted 11.13.2008 | Home
Paul Reagan concedes that a yard sign isn't the best means of communication, but when your house is flanked on either side by the opposition, you need to take a stand. "It's primitive," Reagan said. "It's a way of staking out territory. I feel like there must be plenty of people who aren't McCain supporters, but it's the intimidation of all those signs."
Michael Seitzman | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
Liberals believe in individual liberties. And what does liberty mean? Freedom. So, exactly which freedoms are you so worried we're taking from you?
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics
The one issue that surpasses even those that center around civil liberties is the continued existence of the state of Israel.
Thomas Frank | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
The Republicans tell us they wish they didn't have to take this course; that the bailout violates their own first principles; that they're so, so sorry. But none of this is true.
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
She makes them laugh and lets them think that they'll all head over to Culver's later for frozen custard and ButterBurgers.
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
These diametrically opposed, partisan visions of America can never be reconciled because both parties feel that they are fundamentally saving the other party from itself.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics
Joe Biden wears the same Beltway, deal making, war supporting, corporate interest backing tag as Clinton. But there's a difference. Obama picked him.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
The New York Times has William Kristol on its opinion page, and the Wall Street Journal now has Thomas Frank. What Kristol writes could be called scho...
Chuck Lasker | Posted 08.11.2008 | Home
I happily used the "tax and spend liberal" label against Gore and Kerry. I believed that Bush would cut taxes and spending, reduce government, and keep us out of expensive foreign entanglements.
Mary Lyon | Posted 08.08.2008 | Media
Dear O'Reilly, Hannity, and Savage, Congratulations. You sure did it this time. You're the New Century answer to J.D. Salinger, now that an admirer/acolyte of yours has gunned down two people
Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media
Now the right will claim that it is the left that is hateful and violent and that the left is "just as bad" or worse. To that I say: Prove it. If liberals are truly more violent than conservatives, this should be an easy task.
Chris Marcil | Posted 01.13.2009 | Politics
So I saw in my hometown paper, the Los Angeles Times--which I read every day because you never know which issue will be the Souvenir Final one--that ...
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
A revival of the American community requires us to spend much less of our energy and resources on fighting one another, and invest much more of it in the common good.
Simon Woods | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
Obama's lead is evaporating at precisely the same moment people perceive him to be less liberal and more centrist: he is undermining the very premise of his campaign.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
The conservatives' well of ideas may well have run dry, but the American majority has hardly turned liberal. So could the most compelling ideas be neither conservative nor liberal but communitarian?
Dennis Perrin | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media
Reading the liblogs is like watching a character on TV watching TV -- the difference being that the TV actor knows that he or she is playing make-believe. Most libloggers have yet to reach such awareness.
Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
McCain's challenge lies in maintaining the politically middle-of-the-road voters, while appealing to social conservatives. Obama's lies in moving to the middle without giving up his liberal base.
Russ Wellen | Posted 04.26.2008 | Home
What are those of us oblivious to the economy or the war voting on? Gay marriage? Abortion? Lapel pins? Chances are many of us may again vote only to our comfort level, as we did with George Bush.
Los Angeles Times | Jonathan Chait | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Something strange happened the other day. All these different people -- friends, co-workers, relatives, people on a liberal e-mail list I read -- kept...
Washington Post | Robert Barnes, Michael A. Fletcher and Kevin Merida | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Justice Clarence Thomas settles scores in an angry and vivid forthcoming memoir, scathingly condemning the media, the Democratic senators who opposed ...
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics