Month: October 2012

I hope all of you understand why the Republicans suddenly came up with a pseudoscientific theory that all the public polling firms are skewed toward Obama and that Romney is going to win convincingly. They didn’t launch...

Michael Tomasky, typically a cautious commentator—as are so many liberals his age (once burned, twice shy)—indulged himself over the weekend* with imagining what might happen if Pres. Obama wins re-election in a...

It sounds like the judge dealing with the Pennsylvania Jim Crow law is going to do something stupid. Rather than place a broad injunction against enforcement of the law, he’s going to basically render it toothless. Under...

TomDispatch: Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, We Could Be HeroesCan you imagine how far the Civil Rights Movement would have gotten, had it been run entirely by complainers for whom nothing was ever good enough? To hell with integrating...

I’m one of the least materialistic people you will ever meet. Probably dysfunctionally so. I occasionally fantasize about what I would do if I won the lottery, and I admit to the ambition to one day have a place in the...