Author: Elias Isquith

Responding to the news that, post-OWS, media mentions of income inequality have skyrocketed by nearly 500%, Steve Kornacki says the Occupiers have already won. But victory comes with its own drawbacks: Before the past...

Inevitably meme, enter stage right: Rick Perry’s remarkable meltdown in front of millions of people on national television Wednesday night adds to the growing sense of inevitability for Mitt Romney — if only because...

E.D. thinks that, contrary to what many fear, a President Romney would not be a puppet on so many Tea Party Congressman’s strings: Why would Romney, unlike virtually every other president in recent history,...

While it’s long been conventional wisdom on the Left that the Republican Party is doing whatever it can to ensure the economy stays horrid just long enough for the President to lose his reelection...

Like the White House, it seems that the media has decided that, momentary signs of life notwithstanding, Rick Perry will not be defeating Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination next year, that we will have...

David Masciotra’s got a piece up at Popmatters that takes on a liberal sacred cow in service of defending someone else who is not quite a pariah, but certainly a guilty pleasure—at least for...

I’ve gotten much better at this blogging thing as time has gone by, but every once in a while I fall off the wagon and Blog While Angry. This is essentially never a good...

Andrew Sullivan makes his return to the blogosphere with a Where Are We Now-styled post, the majority of which features him rather deftly outlining the many ways in which the President finds himself in...

Glenn Greenwald’s at it again, needling liberal pundits for their, shall we say, dexterity in defending the Obama Administration. A little less than a week ago, it was Michael Tomasky, with his Daily Beast...

“If you’re arguing on the internet, you’ve already lost.” Ah, if only it were so easy…

Dave Weigel uses some fascinating newly re-released Gallup data to remind us that, once upon a time, MLK was about as well-liked by white people as Farrakhan: Why was King so unpopular in 1966?...

A little less than a week ago, News Corp’s new iPad publication, The Daily, ran a Reihan Salam op-ed which attempted to argue against, or at least unpack, the common opinion amongst those to his...

There’s an interesting back-and-forth going on between Charles Davis and Radley Balko (with E.D. also offering a few cents of his own) over whether or not it’s a wise idea to link income tax...

Many left-leaning people have considered the Republican party’s position on climate change irresponsible and intellectually bankrupt for years, if not decades. But while it’s true that the GOP has been estranged from Teddy Roosevelt’s...

Inspired by this very good Mike Konczal post on Mitt Romney’s idea to privatize unemployment insurance, Corey Robin has taken the conversation to a realm that’s pretty undervalued, even implicitly verboten, in much of...

A Washington Post article brings up an old idea that’s gone from common sense to the fringes of the political sphere — the so-called war tax: Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), believes such a levy...

Over the past couple of years, there’s been many people wondering why it is, exactly, that Washington seems so utterly indifferent towards stimulating the economy. Some people have hypothesized that it’s because DC itself...

Except for the absence of soon-to-announce candidate Governor Rick Perry, last night’s debate was the first in which essentially the full roster of candidates was on-stage. But even with the addition of former Governor...

Over on the series of tubes that emanates from the Twitter hive mind, Ned Resnikoff flagged this post from Will Davies (no relation, I assume, to brothers Ray and Dave) that stands for now...