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Talking Nice and Playing Dirty with the Bush Family
April 08, 2014
Great news for those who seek clarity heading into the 2016 presidential election: Republican donors have decided that Jeb Bush should be the next president. Pair that with the even more established fact that Democratic donors, and Democrats in general, have decided that Hillary ...

Debates Outside the Dichotomy
March 25, 2014
We need to chart another axis. Americans are facing a conflict between authoritarians and counter-authoritarians, on both sides of the left-versus-right political spectrum. That conflict is usually obscured by the tiresome nature of politics that are trapped in a false ...

Wrong if Republican, Right if Democrat
January 28, 2014
Sean Wilentz contains multitudes. Back in 2006, in a cover story that has since vanished from the Rolling Stone website, the Princeton University historian took up the cudgel against George W. Bush. “The Worst President in History,” the headline of Wilentz’s ...

Adult Babies React as Expected When Favorite Toy Taken Away
November 22, 2013
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 ...

Sheldon Adelson Strikes Again
October 23, 2013
Much of the commentary following the Republican Party’s fruitless shutdown of the federal government suggests that there is only one group who can prevent the party from continuing to implode: the Republican donor class. These fellas–because they’re mostly ...

Cruz’s Value Voters Vortex
October 11, 2013
Watching a few minutes, or even a few seconds, of the annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, you’d have no idea that the GOP is struggling—or even, as ABC News says, “working out the terms of their surrender.” The conference, which began Friday, October ...

All Hail the Shutdown Circle Jerk
September 27, 2013
On Monday at midnight, funding for the federal government is set to expire. As they stand now, here are each party’s negotiating postures: the Republicans, who control the House of Representatives, insist they will not fund the government so long as the new health care reform ...