Month: May 2011

Tim Rutten sees in the Pew Research data evidence of the Californication of America. Perhaps most troubling, Pew found that a majority of registered voters — and a stunning 79% of “staunch conservatives” — say they...

I really wish that we had someone other than Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) as our Budget Committee chairman. I am certain that progressives are going to hate his budget plan. One lawmaker who attended the meeting said Conrad did not...

I wonder if it is true. I wonder if the GOP’s decision to block any and all nominees to head up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will actually make it more likely that the president will recess appoint Elizabeth...

[Cross-posted at my ZepBlog] What was Osama bin Laden doing in Sarajevo in November, 1994? Apparently, the same thing as the United States: supporting the Alija Izetbegović-led faction of the Bosnian Muslims against the...

I am one of those people who regard the EU as one of the greatest achievements of global politics, ever.  To bring together former warring imperial powers who, between them, caused and fought most of the worlds most brutal...