Newsweek Ed's Poem Skewers Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs resigned from CNN on Wednesday night. Newsweek's longtime senior editor Jerry Adler published a poem in honor of the occasion entitled "Goodbye, Mr. Dobbs."
Lou Dobbs resigned from CNN on Wednesday night. Newsweek's longtime senior editor Jerry Adler published a poem in honor of the occasion entitled "Goodbye, Mr. Dobbs."
Azam Nizamuddin | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
In the Ft. Hood aftermath, we shouldn't allow right-wing hooliganism, wherever it stems from, to dictate how we view tragedies and interpret human beings with cultures and religions separate from our own.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Here is the unalterable fact that the right-wing of this country has to get used to: Muslim-Americans are 100% American. There are no degrees of how American you are.
M. Tracey Brooks | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York
The GOP failed to back its own candidate and allowed outside influences such as the Conservative Party and the Club for Growth to hijack the election. This is not good for the GOP or for women.
B.D. Gallof | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
Today we will see the crawl, but next year we will see the running. The bouillabaisse of discontent has been churning, and this year's minority will be a movement looking to step up.
McClatchy | Erika Bolstad | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
The envy of nearly every other first-time author, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's good fortune includes an advance upward of $1.25 million, an appear...
Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
All that Afghanistan needs is more troops, according to the Krauthammer crew. Well, yesterday, Sen. Levin, the last to speak at the event, made a point of putting them in their place.
Paul Abrams | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Because of a benign-sounding charter amendment offered by right wing zealots, candidates are not known by their political affiliations. That removes the shorthand that busy people use to vote.
Jonathan Weiler | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
The study is certainly worth reading in full, but I wanted to address Democracy Corps' dismissal of a "racial element" in this hard-core right wing opposition to Obama.
Robert Creamer | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Government is not always the solution, any more than it is always the problem. But in many cases, progressives know that it is more efficient, more effective and more consistent with the values of a democratic society.
Salam Al Marayati | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
What's next? Muslims trying to infiltrate the Congress by scheduling lobby days, or by simply meeting with their members of Congress?
John W. Whitehead | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
Welcome to the "fear chamber" or "doom room," home to Fox News Channel's political commentator and television news host, Glenn Beck. Beck has becom...
Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
The real problem for Democrats is that by choosing Creigh Deeds they've diluted the Democratic brand as far as it can go. Let's face it, Deeds is no Jim Webb.
Nancy Wadsworth | Posted 10.13.2009 | Denver
In my division at DU of over 70 professors, I can count the number of tenure-track faculty of color on one hand. In DU's service and maintenance position ranks, the demographics are reversed.
Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Tea Party Patriots did not want to lose Amy Kremer. The Atlanta activist had co-founded the organization. She'd helped organize some of the biggest ev...
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
The path of the Right leads to a place where there is nothing left to conserve. This particular dilemma of the American Right provides an angle of insight into the challenge that we face in Afghanistan.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
The neoconservatives will trumpet this as the ultimate evidence of Obama being a socialist, embraced by notoriously socialist Norway.
Matt Osborne | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Sedition is an attempt to overthrow the constitutional government of the United States. That's how far un-American rhetoric has penetrated the conservative movement.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
Whether they're cynical postures or sincere beliefs doesn't matter: ruthless opposition and dingbat delusions are the currency of right-wing success, and sand in the gears of democracy.
Matt Osborne | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
There is a limitless supply of videos chronicling the August teabaggery, but this is the one I found most interesting: a woman declaring that "Obama i...
Morgan Warners | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
To what extent does the GOP have to do anything substantive, as opposed to just changing tone and message, in order to get big gains?
Michael Wolff | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
The soda tax is being tried out as a potential wedge issue, a populist theme. Super groovy cool self-satisfied yuppie people don't drink soda. But gross fat compulsive lacking-all-self-control normal Americans do.
Larry Gellman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
This Yom Kippur there is reason for concern. The politics of rumor, innuendo, and lies -- sinat chinam -- is on the rise in our community and it hurts us all.
Larry Gellman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
With investments, mob psychology takes over. People get greedy at the top and afraid at the bottom. At the end of the day, they almost always default in favor of sleeping at night.
Suz Redfearn | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
My brother rolled into D.C. from Boston on a chartered bus, arriving in the dark outside a Marriott. I scanned the pack of fairly nondescript folks ...
John Lundberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living