Why is an attack on Mika Brzezinski treated as a bigger transgression than taking health insurance away from 24 million people? A hypothesis

The more our elections revolve around gladiatorial combats, the less surprised we should be to find that our leaders have a taste for blood

Stop asking us to be with you, and start asking us to all be in this thing together

A divided GOP, illustrated

What a brokered convention is, how it would work, and why you should care

The Virginia Democratic primary is March 1, so I thought I’d take a moment to let you know why I’ll be voting for Bernie Sanders

How John Boyd’s decision-making model explains the rise in 2016 of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders

Initiative was the gift Barack Obama gave the GOP, because he made them the arbiters of whether his strategy was successful or not

People aren’t stupid; they know the difference between someone making a promise and someone actually taking action

I can’t get on the “Run, Liz, Run” train. Here’s why

If your only message is to point at a mirror and say “that’s not me,” you come across as someone who’s either a liar or an idiot

Dondero’s addled ​cri de coeur ​was met with mockery and ridicule around the blogosphere. But still, something was missing. Someone needed to give it the Serious, Dramatic Reading it deserved. Someone like me

Voters, it turns out, aren’t stupid. When things happen, they remember.

Nobody’s going to trust someone who’s more interested in the approval of the person ripping you off than in helping you avoid getting ripped off

I saw something today that brought back all the frustration I felt watching progressive leaders cede the field to Tea Party wingnuts back in 2009 and 2010. Let’s look at an example of how not to do advocacy communications

WASHINGTON — In a move hailed by gay rights and liberal activists as “unprecedented” and “historic,” President Barack Obama announced today that he personally believes that same-sex couples should be able to marry, but not enough to actually do anything about it.

The real reason why tech was nearly sandbagged by SOPA: not because tech is getting outspent by the deep pockets of Big Content, but because tech spends its lobbying money in dumb ways

Brisbane sets up a choice between “reporting” and “opinion,” which is a standard way journalists divide up the world, and then asks us which one we prefer. But I believe this is a false dichotomy, because it leaves out a critical third element: context

For Congress, institutional cowardice has become the norm

This is a NATIONALLY TELEVISED PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. There is no “Oops”

It’s easy to lose sight of this if you read the news or watch the cable nets. Every day they have a new twist in the story, a new angle, a new face that’s either waxing or waning. But that’s all colored smoke and streamers; the truth that remains when the smoke has blown away and the circus has bedded down for the night never really changes.

I love this: That is all.

Watch out, you wascally wadicals!

Or it should, if it wants to be taken seriously

I wrote last Friday that the uprising in Egypt appeared to be heading for a moment of decision, with protesters’ calls for that to be President Hosni Mubarak’s “day of departure” set to collide with Mubarak’s gradually increasing use of force to try to back them down. It didn’t turn out that way.  The protesters […]