Commenting on Barack Obama’s first week in the Oval Office, Salon’s Mike Madden noted that “with a few strokes of a pen… President Obama undid…
Rep. Bill Young (R-Florida), chiming in on the controversy over President Obama’s executive order that the Guantanamo Bay prison be shuttered within a year:
“Number…
I’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.…
The Telegraph has a cute little profile of Esther Duflo, the economist at MIT who is widely credited with launching and sustaining the empirical revolution…
Says the Associated Press:
State Sen. Dennis Damon is introducing a bill to end the prohibition on gay marriage in Maine. House Republican Josh Tardy,…
Ben Smith has a good catch: during his first run for State Senate in 1996, Barack Obama responded to an issues questionnaire from Outlines, a…
Russ just wrote about the good news that Bishop Gene Robinson, an openly gay Episcopalian, will be delivering the invocation at an inauguration-related event at…
You’ve probably heard by now, but in Oakland, 22-year-old Oscar Grant of Hayward, California was shot and killed by a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)…
This is just horrifying:
The Central Elections Committee on Monday banned Arab political parties from running in next month’s parliamentary elections, drawing accusations of racism…
You know what the world really needs right now? More broken peace processes. Take it away, Democratic Republic of the Congo:
General Laurent Nkunda, the…
Ari Melber of The Nation and other progressive journalists and bloggers are trying to use Change.gov to put pressure on President-elect Obama to dig up…
A new study shows that old age, conservatism, and frequent attendance of religious services were the best indicators of whether someone voted for Prop 8,…
I’ve argued before that laws restricting certain types of offensive speech are a bad idea, and I think this story out of Boston is a…
The Los Angeles Times says that California Attorney General Jerry Brown is getting flak for his new theory in favor of the invalidation of Proposition…
Lately, still-Vice-President Dick Cheney has been doing a number of interviews, sharing his rationale for why the executive should not have to answer to anyone,…
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