Dylan Matthews

By Dylan Matthews Here I was, all ready to get in a huffy about how Obama had kind of sort of named Sam Nunn (yes, this Sam Nunn) as one of the three wisest people he knows, when Matt Yglesias decided to go constitutional on the veepstakes question: Like everyone else in DC, I’m pondering […]

By Dylan Matthews It’s one thing when feminists criticize the gender roles promoted by Twilight, the massively popular book series turned film about vampires and the damsels in distress who love them. But when noted misogynists attest to its anti-feminist bona fides, you know you’ve got a keeper on your hands. Here’s Leonard Sax, he […]

By Dylan Matthews Today’s assignment: in 500 words or less, explain how Coily the Spring Sprite fits into God’s plan for us:

By Dylan Matthews My former Prospect cube-mate, Daniel Strauss, sends along Michael Lind‘s infuriating article on how to create a Democratic supermajority. Lind has decided to dub the modern Democratic party the “McGovern party” (always a good sign). Why? Well, The Roosevelt Party ran on economic issues, and didn’t care whether voters were in favor […]

By Dylan Matthews Marc Ambinder asks: If John McCain selects Joe Lieberman as his vice presidential ticket-mate, does Harry Reid kick Lieberman ought of the Senate Democratic conference, thus, potentially, transferring power to Republicans for a few months? No. Lieberman can’t pull a Jeffords; in 2001, Democrats coaxed Republicans members of the Senate into passing […]

By Dylan Matthews I think Steve Benen underestimates the value of Obama picking a consistently antiwar running mate: Now, I appreciate the broader context here. Obama got Iraq completely right from the start, a fact that gave him an important edge in the Democratic primaries. He doesn’t want to just change U.S. foreign policy, he […]

By Dylan Matthews I really don’t follow Strobe Talbott’s logic here: In one of my first meetings with Vladimir Putin, before he became president, he spoke of his country’s zapadnichestvo, its Western vocation. Yet it now appears that beyond the undisguised animosity that Putin bears toward Saakashvili, he and his government regard Georgia’s pro-Western bent […]

By Dylan Matthews It seems that he’s taking the ruling parliamentary coalition’s threat of impeachment seriously: Faced with desertions by his political supporters and the neutrality of the Pakistani military, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, an important ally of the United States, is expected to resign in the next few days rather than face impeachment […]

By Dylan Matthews Want more evidence that Evan Bayh would be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad addition to Barack Obama’s ticket? Check out this quote he gave in a early 2007 interview to The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg: You just hope that we haven’t soured an entire generation on the necessity, from time to […]

By Dylan Matthews “Adventure Time, c’mon and grab your friends and go to very distant lands. Jake the dog and Pen the human, the fun will never end, it’s Adventure Time!”