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Politics Archive
How Sarah Palin’s Plucky Ingénue Could Spell Curtains for McCain
Posted on August 31, 2008 | No CommentsIf screen credits appear at the end of the 2008 presidential election, I’d guess they’ll tell us the story was created by Kurt Vonnegut and Harriet Beecher Stowe, with a...Bad Monkeys, Paradise, and Politics
Posted on August 24, 2008 | No CommentsRight off the bat, attack blog Michelle Malkin whacked Barack Obama and Joe Biden as they emerged for their first joint appearance. “It’s Smarmy and Smirky ’08,” she spit, though...Huck, Tom, Barack & John: Sound Hearts & Deformed Consciences
Posted on August 17, 2008 | No Comments“But Huck, we can’t let you in the gang if you ain’t respectable, you know.” Some version of this betrayal is, regretfully, often performed by most Americans who would be...What Then is to be Seen in America?
Posted on August 10, 2008 | No CommentsIt’s late afternoon, at a window booth in a small diner in Rutherford, New Jersey. Around 1961 or ’62. An older man with short white hair that is still somehow...How ‘Genre Politics’ Hurts Progressives
Posted on August 3, 2008 | No CommentsVoters don’t make decisions based upon cold calculation of self-interest. They don’t rationally and objectively weigh the facts. Rather, political preferences are determined by habits of thought and emotion, and...Waiting for a Train: Progressives and Country Music
Posted on July 27, 2008 | No CommentsIf I said that country music holds a key to progressive political success, would it sound so out of tune that you’d stand up and walk out on me? Hit...Feds Set Up South Texas for Katrina 2.0
Posted on July 24, 2008 | No CommentsAs Hurricane Dolly drew a bead on the South Texas coast and the mouth of the Rio Grande, workers began building a new section of the controversial U.S.-Mexico border Wall...Bush as Empty Cargo Shorts: How Perfect Is That
Posted on July 20, 2008 | No CommentsAustin, Texas was once a laid-back, creative haven full of college students, hippies, affable red necks and university professors. Even the conservative Democrats in power in the late ’60s and...A Very Blackwater Thanksgiving: Profiteers Are Wrecking Our Health and Destroying Our Security
Posted on November 6, 2007 | No CommentsAs Thanksgiving approaches, we should pay homage to the 17th Century Blackwater-like private security firms who made the very first Thanksgiving possible. That’s the message from Serviam, a magazine committed...Don’t think of a sick child
Posted on October 1, 2007 | No CommentsGeorge W. Bush doesn’t want you to think of a sick child. Not Graeme Frost. Not Gemma Frost. Not Bethany Wilkerson. Not any of the real children affected. He wants...