Adam Serwer

Well, this seems like kind of a big triumph for the folks at Media Matters: FOX NEWS AND MERCURY RADIO ARTS ANNOUNCE NEW AGREEMENT(New York, NY) Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, Glenn Beck‘s production company, are proud to announce that they will work together to develop and produce a variety of television projects for […]

Yesterday, Scott Lemieux wrote about President Obama‘s executive war powers overreach, and why it’s become so typical: Surprisingly, it’s not that the president has systematically ignored or overridden Congress. In fact, the presidency has become the dominant war-making power precisely because this is how a majority of legislators want it. The president initiated major wars […]

One from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: And one from Ezra Klein: Rep. Paul Ryan‘s budget does, however, manage to slash taxes on people making the most while raising them on everyone else. This I’m told, by a legion of political pundits who make enough money that their kids won’t need Pell grants […]

Glenn Greenwald writes that Democratic voters need to stop letting Democrats take their votes for granted: One thing is for certain: right now, the Democratic Party is absolutely correct in its assessment that kicking its base is good politics. Why is that? Because they know that they have inculcated their base with sufficient levels of […]

Scott Lemieux on presidential war powers. Shutdown time? MSNBC is still not the liberal Fox News. KSM tried to come to the U.S.

Note: This post was meant to go up early this morning, but it got lost in the shuffle. On Sunday, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham reacted to the Quran burning by a Florida pastor and associated mob violence in Afghanistan by arguing that “Free speech is a great idea but we’re in a war.” The […]

This week, Rep. Paul Ryan‘s budget slashing taxes on the rich and medical aid to the poor, elderly and disabled is getting plaudits for “seriousness” from David Brooks. His proposal will set the standard of seriousness for anybody who wants to play in this discussion. It will become the 2012 Republican platform, no matter who […]

A House Judiciary Subcommittee had prepared a full-court press today against the administration’s plan to try the 9/11 defendants in civilian court, which may explain their decision to announce that they would be tried by military commission yesterday. Here’s an excerpt from the testimony of David Beamer, whose son died on 9/11: Instead of swift […]

Rich Lowry crows in reaction to the news that Khalid Sheik Mohammed and the other alleged 9/11 conspirators will be tried by military commission: Where does George W. Bush go to get his apology? The prior statements of Obama and his top officials on Gitmo and the commissions are an embarrassing farrago of amateurish, self-righteous […]