Disillusioned Voting
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 30th, 2009 at 3:22 pmLee Sigelman at The Monkey Cage shares his study of whether voters voted for a presidential candidate or against the other candidate in elections since…
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The Double Failure of Boehner And The Right
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 29th, 2009 at 4:13 pmNed has a good post up at his home blog about the the zero “yea” votes by Republicans on the stimulus package. Here’s the thing…
$3 Billion More Well-spent on Transit
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 29th, 2009 at 11:30 amI’m giddy that Rep. Jerry Nadler’s amendment to restore $3 billion worth of public transit improvement and repair to the stimulus bill was passed. What’s…
Salmon’s Case For Nonprofit Newspapers
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 28th, 2009 at 12:12 pmFelix Salmon makes the case for the The New York Times and other major newspapers to go nonprofit:
What’s more, I suspect that the future…
At Least Gillibrand is Good for Transit
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 28th, 2009 at 11:44 amGillibrand may not be as liberal as we’d all like, but she’s got the right idea where transit is concerned. Dana Goldstein writes:
After being…
Flipside Conservatism
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 27th, 2009 at 5:22 pmI’m starting to think conservatives have it backwards. Ta-Nehisi Coates highlighted this article arguing that President Obama is conservative:
Because progressive commentators depict Bush as…
Sensible Stimulus Spending
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 27th, 2009 at 10:01 amRyan Avent wrote a good description of the dangers of the fare hikes sweeping public transit systems across the country:
But the most important thing…
The End of a Bad Era: Kristol Leaves the Times
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 26th, 2009 at 1:14 pmLike the end to the nightmarish presidency his column often cheer-led, Bill Kristol’s time on The New York Times editorial page is officially over. I…
Get Used to This Phrase: “Center-left Nation”
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 26th, 2009 at 10:44 amVia Steve Benen, Gallup found that more Americans are identifying as Democrats these days than at any point since Gallup began asking this question. Including…
Sarkozy Values Newspapers, and So Should We
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 23rd, 2009 at 5:08 pmFrance’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has always been a little too showy for my tastes, and here he may just be trying to hog the spotlight…
Now This Is A Stimulus Proposal
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 22nd, 2009 at 1:27 pmMatthew Yglesias makes one of the most sensible, if not the most sensible, stimulus proposals I’ve heard:
All around the country, after all, we have…
Could Be A Productive First Hundred Days
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 22nd, 2009 at 11:52 amThe conditions look really good for President Obama (that’s the first time I wrote that) to successfully pass a lot of legislation in his first…
What TPM’s Cooper Hire Means
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 21st, 2009 at 11:27 amWith the hiring of Matt Cooper it’s indisputable that Talking Points Memo is more than a publication of the far-left progressive media sphere. Cooper is…
Yup, 24 is Conservative
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 21st, 2009 at 10:07 amI’m ashamed to say as of late I’ve been watching a few episodes of 24. It can’t be said enough how conservative the show is.…
Colleges Not Spending on Students
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 16th, 2009 at 2:51 pmAs a state-school student–a Big Ten one at that–I always have a lingering fear that the majority of my outrageous annual tuition (in the $40,000…
