Author: Jonathan Schwartz

There’s probably no way congressional Republicans can lose this fall, no matter how unpopular President Bush is or how unhappy the voters are with the war in Iraq. That’s the prevailing view in Washington today. But...

The other day I went to see “An Inconvenient Truth,” which turned out to be surprisingly moving.  I was stunned when the form Veep discussed the disparity between the consensus of the academic community and its...

Crossposted from Moral Questions Weblog. Digby wrote this today: I’ve been talking a lot about race since Katrina, and I talked about it during the election too. It’s not because I’m generally obsessed with the...

Crossposted from Moral Questions Weblog. I have to a dirty little secret.  I still think Christopher Hitchens is the man.  My first exposure to Hitchens was during the early days of my political involvement in the late...

Crossposted from Moral Questions Weblog. This month’s Atlantic had a feature by Washington Monthly writer Joshua Green focused on the growing influence within radical christian right circles of former Alabama supreme court...