Jim Newell

So the Senate minority is no longer able to filibuster the nominations of all executive and judicial branch appointees for shits and giggles anymore. No longer, to use the most recent example, can it block votes on three judges appointed to a circuit court because, as the excuse ...

What’s the next logical step for a country that’s just slashed SNAP benefits during a period of high, sorta-becoming-permanent unemployment, and plans to cut even more benefits in the near future? The War on the Hungry must move the ball down the field. What can be ...

May I just admit that I loved the new Mark Halperin and John Heilemann 2012 election gossip book? It’s embarrassing, I know! I made fun of the title, Double Down: Game Change 2012, as much as anyone when it was announced. And the title remains funny — as does each ...

What might be the top buzzword inside the Beltway? There are so many candidates! “Spox.” “Double Down.” “Save the Middle Class.” “Money.” “War.” Ooh—what about “Strategic Communications” (a.k.a. unlicensed ...

The Atlanta Braves’ long nightmare is finally over. The baseball team has announced that it will move out of its downtown stadium, Turner Field, after a whopping . . . 16 years . . . and move to the greener pastures of suburban Cobb County. “That’s a shock,” ...

Chris Christie was just reelected governor of New Jersey, and now he’s out on tour! Of the terrible Sunday morning political talk shows, that is, where his intention is to brag about said reelection. And my goodness, what a suave fellow. He can make you believe anything. I ...

At this point in 2011, people were still mocking the drum circles, the poorly defined goals, the leadership-by-group-consensus model, and how they were all probably spoiled liberal arts college grads trying to get high. But within months of Occupy Wall Street protesters taking ...

Like Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill seems to be a British personage Americans give more of a shit about than actual Britons do. Last week, in the capital—the United States capital, that is—American leaders gathered to fête the dead old Tory with the unveiling of a massive ...