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WHO REMEMBERS THE ARMENIANS? Well, in Los Angeles, it turns out, lots of people do. The LA Weekly digs into a brewing controversy about how The Los Angeles Times killed a story on the fight over recognizing the Armenian genocide, which led the story’s author to file a discrimination complaint against the paper. This is […]

A QUESTION. Tonight the Democratic presidential field holds its first primary debate in South Carolina, moderated by Brian Williams of NBC. If I were asking questions, I’d ask a question about the conversation that everyone has but no one will admit to having, and what each candidate would say to those who are having it. […]

THE THINGS PEOPLE SAY. You know, something about this Democratic presidential contest is bringing out the worst in people. I was talking with a culturally liberal friend recently who is not in politics and who asked me who I thought would win in 2008. It seemed like a normal enough conversational opener. I hazarded a […]

Democrat John Edwards courted black voters like an earnest young suitor, and it paid off enormously. Edwards, who beat Republican Sen. Lauch Faircloth by about 80,000 votes Tuesday, trailed Faircloth among white voters by around 230,000 votes. But Edward claimed nine out of 10 black votes, or 310,000 more than Faircloth. Early in his victory […]

THE OBAMA NUMBERS. First, can we all be clear on what happened here? I don’t have specific numbers in hand, but from everything I’m hearing and seeing it looks as though Barack Obama most likely beat Hillary Clinton in primary-only fundraising. Which is very, very impressive. How did this happen, you ask? Well, even though […]

THE BLOGGINGHEADS AFFAIR. I suppose I need to say something about this. Having written about politics and the internet for a good three years, I have to say I’m finding it somewhat bizarre to be on the other end things and part of a viral video moment that has made the jump to YouTube, been […]

UGH, MORE CLINTON! All weekend I watched the comment thread on this grow. It finally topped out at 98, which I think is some kind of record for this site, barring spam attacks. I’m pretty much done talking about Clinton for now, but I do want to respond to Ezra‘s last post, since he pretty […]

A speech without results is just talk. If your legislation hasn�t passed the House and Senate, had money appropriated for it, had time for those funds to be disbursed, and actually changed facts on the ground, you have not fixed the problem. Any bill that doesn�t pass does not exist. Personal and character questions will […]

THE DEMOCRATIC BLACK CAUCUS. One perplexity in the ongoing debate about the possible Congressional Black Caucus Political Education & Leadership Institute G.O.P. presidential candidate debate with Fox News is why the CBC Institute is trying to host a debate for the G.O.P. field, anyway. The Fox News editorial line and viewers are heavily biased toward […]

BEST. MEET THE PRESS. EVER. Former Rep. Tom Andrews, head of Win without War, versus the usual Washington suspects. Watching him debate the plastiscene Tom Delay and Richard Perle, whom the years have not been kind to,