Elizabeth Warren appeared last week on the PBS program NOW. As the chair of the government's TARP oversight committee, Warren is one of the few prominent voices speaking out on behalf of American families, their concerns and their burdens. Warren points up how, a year after the financial bailout,...

On Halloween, just ahead of Tuesday's local elections, we received a second attack flyer in the mail from conservative activists. This one was entitled "Save Our City." (Save it from progressive, radical, extremist socialists, that is.)

Last February, Mark Liebovich penned a New York Times column entitled, "'Socialism!'...

The health care debate -- with its leaks, mixed signals and close-to-the-vest dealing -- has reform supporters losing their cool while Obama, infuriatingly, maintains his. The uncertainty has strained the tenuous loyalties of a fickle American left. How much talk about "triggers" is real, how much is process, and how...

A focus-group study by Democracy Corps explains that Republican base voters live in "a world apart from the rest of America."

The Tea Parties of August already made that pretty clear.

Republican base voters believe themselves to be an oppressed minority that possesses "knowledge and insight that...

You have seen it. The plastic bucket beside the cash register at the convenience store. A photo is taped to it. A child needs an operation. His father lost his job. The family lost its insurance. They are about to lose their home. Can you spare some change?

What...

Activists in the blogosphere are studying well over 500 amendments to Sen. Max Baucus' Senate Finance Committee health care reform bill, including three "public option" amendments. All sides will hotly debate, soundly trash, and amend the hell out of the Baucus bill, H.R.3200 (on the House side)...

Enter the Tea Baggers, the Birthers, the Deathers, Glenn Beck, town hall shouters, guys with guns, and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC). The right's simmering kettle of bile is boiling over.

You almost can't blame them for losing it. Conservatives spent three decades building, Bolero-like, towards their denouement: control of...

It can't happen here, Sinclair Lewis wrote ironically in 1935.

Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean.
My fist got hard and my wits got keen.

- from A Boy Named Sue by Shel Silverstein

Maybe it is something congenital about the left. Faced with lies, propaganda and intimidation, liberals go to Google to arm themselves...

The organized intimidation and minor violence at health care town halls around the country is cause for concern. Sara Robinson asks the question, Is it fascism yet?

But so far, the "shock troops" who have shown up here (Americans for Prosperity) got off their tour bus armed...

The descent into complete incoherence among conservatives -- especially on talk radio -- has become widespread as the health care debate intensifies. The once Mighty Wurlitzer is wheezing and groaning.

New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg calls reform opponents nihilistic, but eschatological would not be far off the mark.

Obama and...

This weekend was the tenth anniversary of Remote Area Medical's free health fair in Wise County, VA. Stan Brock founded Knoxville-based RAM in 1985 to insert mobile medical teams into remote areas of third-world countries. Now over 60 percent of RAM's work is in rural areas of the United...