As Jim Webb noted in his response to the 2007 State of the Union Address, “this is the seventh time the president has mentioned energy independence in his State of the Union message, but for the first time this exchange is taking place in a Congress led by the Democratic Party. We are looking for […]
Ben Adler
Ben Adler is a senior editor at City & State NY. He previously worked for Politico, The Nation, and Reuters, and he has written for The Washington Post and The New Republic, among other publications.
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INSIDER TRADING IN STUDENT LOAN INDUSTRY:
INSIDER TRADING IN STUDENT LOAN INDUSTRY: As recently reported, President Bush‘s budget will cut wasteful subsidies to student loan corporations and redirect the funding to Pell Grants. Finally Bush has done something progressives can cheer, though experts think he could have gone farther. Meanwhile, Albert L. Lord, chairman of Sallie Mae, sold 400,000 shares of […]
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GUILIANI-LIEBERMAN ’08.
GUILIANI-LIEBERMAN ’08. I’m a little confused by this post on the Plank. Jonathan Chait is correct that Rudy Giuliani would make a strong general election candidate for the Republicans if he could actually get the nomination but that doing so would be extremely difficult for him. Some of the same qualities that would make him […]
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ATLANTIC AGAINST THE…
ATLANTIC AGAINST THE OIL ADDICTION. With all the recent chatter online about Jon Zobenica‘s hilarious and insightful article on Playboy in the January/February issue of the Atlantic, it seems like the paradigm shift in that same magazine is being ignored. I’m referring, of course, to a pair of articles, by Ross Douthat and Clive Crook, […]
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A MCCAIN TRUE COLORS WATCH UPDATE:
A MCCAIN TRUE COLORS WATCH UPDATE: It’s good to see TNR, which has at times been a bastion of liberals-for-McCainism, holding Sen. John McCain‘s feet to the fire for hiring Terry Nelson. This Nelson is truly an odious operative. Both the racist ads against Harold Ford in Tennessee last year and the Republicans’ scheme to […]
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PERETZ, SOROS, AND SCAIFE.
PERETZ, SOROS, AND SCAIFE. OK, OK, I know the standards are supposed to be lower for Marty Peretz, but the dishonesty of his smear of George Soros in this week’s TNR is just too much. In attacking Soros for making an off-hand and probably tongue-in-cheek reference to America’s need to de-Nazify post-Bush, Peretz rhetorically demands […]
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LIEBERMAN SHOWS I.D.
LIEBERMAN SHOWS I.D. I’m gonna weigh in on the great controversy surrounding Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-CT). No, not his lonely support for escalation of the Iraq war. I mean what should the abbreviation after his name be in news articles? Over at Raw Story Brian Beutler has provided a full dissection, and gotten an official […]
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THE FEMINIST CANDIDATE.
THE FEMINIST CANDIDATE. What does it mean that Kate Michelman, former head of NARAL Pro-Choice America, has signed onto John Edwards campaign? Combined with the hesitancy of black leaders to automatically throw their support to Barack Obama, does it mean that we are entering a post-identity politics era? Or simply that professional feminists care more […]
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A MCCAIN TRUE COLORS WATCH UPDATE:
A MCCAIN TRUE COLORS WATCH UPDATE: Some people are not content to let John McCain get away with his deceptive “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” act now that his next presidential campaign is gearing up. Brave New Films, the company run by liberal documentarian Robert Greenwald, has pulled together a damning video of McCain’s flip-flops, […]
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MORE ON THE MOMMY CANDIDATES:
MORE ON THE MOMMY CANDIDATES: The Times, a bit late to the party, has a trend piece on the mommy positioning of female politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. Unlike Dana Goldstein, who wrote on this site that Democratic women would be foolish to play into the “mommy party” stereotype, during wartime no less, […]