National Review‘s Robert Costa has a behind-the-scenes report on Speaker Boehner’s failed effort to get his caucus to pass...
Elias Isquith
Elias Isquith is a freelance journalist and blogger. He considers Bob Dylan and Walter Sobchak to be the two great Jewish thinkers of our time; he thinks Kafka was half-right when he said there was hope, "but not for us"; and he can be reached through the twitter via @eliasisquith or via email. The opinions he expresses on the blog and throughout the interwebs are exclusively his own.
Before describing himself as “agonizing” over whether to support it or not, Paul Krugman tries to distill the pro/con...
Note: Such are things right now that writing about the fiscal cliff struck me as a welcome...
Another example — and they’re daily at this point — of why I think the US is about to...
In service of defending his proposition that departing far-right Senator Jim DeMint is a “hero” whose record...
Writing at The Atlantic, Molly Ball tells liberals to quit being so damned optimistic int he wake of this year’s...
NYRB‘s Mark Danner has a nice retrospective on the election (remember that?) that takes a view of...
David Graham of The Atlantic has a good piece wondering whether we should take seriously the recent murmurs of GOP rebranding...
I guess the Fix the Debt folks are worried that their decades-long quest to roll back the...
My friend Ned Resnikoff has a good summary of one of the more fascinating aspects of Walmart’s ongoing and...
Note: Here’s a post that I began some time ago and that is increasingly losing relevancy as...
Kevin Drum provides a wonderful opportunity for me to launch my first volley in the struggle to...
Dave Weigel boldly travels into a realm I’d dare not go — the minds of those newspaper...
While this video was sent to me a bit ago, I’d forgotten to post about it until...
Looking at the polling data earlier this week, I noticed my longtime worst nightmare for the 2012...
Have you seen any ads for the History Channel’s new miniseries, The Men Who Built America?
The night of October 16 was a good one for President Obama. After more than a month...
Recently, a print-only Jacobin article from Chris Maisano inspired a worthwhile discussion between Shawn Gude and Matt Yglesias over...
Daniel Hatcher, a professor of law at the University of Baltimore, recently authored an op-ed for the...
