Another GOP Swipe Against Women
As a Republican, I favor limited government. But the Republican senators who voted against the anti-rape measure ignored common decency and basic human rights.
As a Republican, I favor limited government. But the Republican senators who voted against the anti-rape measure ignored common decency and basic human rights.
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
While overbroad and inaccurate analysis of the extremist risk is often faulty and bigoted, it can sometimes be equally humorous.
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?
Bennet Kelley | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics
The Vast Right Wing's resistance to change that has fueled hatred of past Democratic Presidents has been turbo-charged by the nitroglycerin of American politics -- race.
Landon Ross | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
We don't have all the facts regarding Bill Sparkman's death. Yet the fact that, upon hearing of this incident, politically minded people wonder whether the death was a result of right wing invective is telling.
Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Sparkman's workaday life and violent death -- whatever the cause and whoever the culprit -- highlight the precarious struggles of the white working class and the brewing storm surrounding the 2010 Census.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.22.2009 | Media
Time's cover is the beginning of a rehab job for Glenn Beck. The magazine is trying once again to make it okay for people to sponsor this "person".
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
In the thirty years following Reagan, the Overton window steadily moved to the right and the bottom, resulting in today's baboon shrieks from talk show hosts, financiers and politicians.
Mark Olmsted | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics
I admire Barack Obama very much. He's smart as hell and his attempt to change the tone of politics has been admirable. But it has failed.
Trish Nelson | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media
Dear Mr. Murdoch: I have been sickened and saddened by the choices your news organizations have made to show, over and over, on TV, horrible, hate inspired images against President Obama.
Andrew Reinbach | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
You have to wonder whether the Justices are in the service of powers determined to remake America to their advantage, or if they respect themselves and want to make good law.
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.
Rob Kall | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media
Daybreak was written by first time author and progressive activist David Swanson.
The Boulder Daily Camera | John Aguilar | Posted 09.27.2009 | Denver
A federal grand jury indicted a resident of Spokane, Wash., on Wednesday for allegedly threatening to kill Boulder abortion doctor Warren Hern and mem...
Stephen Ducat | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
No paranoid fantasy seems too bizarre, too implausible, or too disconnected from consensual reality to find a credulous audience among right wing true believers.
Andrew Reinbach | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
The truth is, the John Birch Society has been framing one side of this country's political debate for years.
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.
Patrick Sauer | Posted 09.12.2009 | Home
I hate to make snap judgments based on snapshots, so I decided to hear what my fellow citizens had to say for themselves. I found that the pictures seen everywhere aren't worth 1,000 words.
Jim Wallis | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
Misinformation and angry mobs are not how democracy functions. Freedom of speech and assembly are certainly our rights, but they must be exercised with responsibility and accountability.
Eric Alterman | Posted 09.06.2009 | Media
Brooks Jackson: "As a former CNN reporter, I believe this episode is an embarrassment to CNN... They have an anchor on there saying one thing and their reporters saying quite another."
Andrew Reinbach | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
Republican lies about the Obama healthcare plan should be no surprise to anyone with a memory.
Mark Morford | Posted 08.28.2009 | Comedy
Who knew the "birthers" were so ready to spring into action? I sure as hell didn't. But Lord, I certainly am grateful. Such entertainment!
J. Richard Cohen | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media
Dobbs' ratings game is so dangerous because there is a segment in our society that is not ready to accept the fact that we have a black man in the White House.
TPMMuckraker | Zachary Roth | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
On Sunday night, Dr. David McKalip forwarded to fellow members of a Google listserv affiliated with the Tea Party movement the image below. Above it, ...
Larry Gellman | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
From the moment Judge Sotomayor was nominated to the court, the Right wing made it clear that they were going to play the only card left in the Republican deck -- the race card.
Candace Straight | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics