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The Right’s Dreams of American Apartheid
Posted on July 15, 2012 | 6 CommentsIt’s tragic but not surprising that the election of the nation’s first black president would accelerate a racist, nationwide movement to disenfranchise people of color, the poor and the elderly.... -
Why I’m calling it *gulp* for Michele Bachmann
Posted on June 14, 2011 | 3 CommentsYep. Monday night belonged to Michele Bachmann. Let’s be clear: If history is any indication, the Republicans are not going to nominate “a maverick” for president. The party has its... -
Obama Returns to His Moral Vision: Democrats Read Carefully
Posted on April 17, 2011 | No CommentsLast week, on April 13, 2011, President Obama gave all Democrats and all progressives a remarkable gift. Most of them barely noticed. They looked at the President’s speech as if... -
Read This And You Will Become Smart And Go To Heaven
Posted on April 17, 2011 | 2 CommentsDictators often come wrapped in lofty literary pretensions, it seems. And you thought the novel was dead. Suzanne Murkelson has a terrific piece in Foreign Policy about the literary lives... -
A Socialist Primer: Rick Perry, Health Care & the Governor’s Race
Posted on March 29, 2010 | 5 CommentsI’m wondering what it’s going to take for my former colleagues in the Texas press corps to call out Rick Perry for using the term “socialism” over-and-over to describe the... -
Open Letter: From Sam Houston to Barack Obama
Posted on January 26, 2010 | 4 CommentsMr. President: It’s my humble privilege as a citizen with my own place in American history to write to you as you’re about to make the most important decision of... -
Obama, Vaclav Havel, and the Dalai Lama
Posted on December 29, 2009 | 3 CommentsFormer Czech President Vaclav Havel offered some criticism of President Obama’s snubbing of the Dalai Lama in a recent interview with Foreign Affairs magazine, and it raises important ethical and... -
Perry Plays the Socialism Scare Game
Posted on November 12, 2009 | 12 CommentsLike a too-slick Marvel Comics villain, the famously well-coiffed Rick Perry stands in his expensive tailored suit (Italian? English Socialist Tweed?), and leads his Midland Country Club audience in a... -
The American Family in the White House
Posted on October 23, 2009 | 7 CommentsThe White House today released the official Obama family portrait by Annie Leibovitz. In his new book of essays, Manhood for Amateurs, the writer Michael Chabon describes his reaction to...