A serious foreign-policy problem. (Flickr/danhollisterduck) A few months ago, I wrote a somewhat tongue-in-cheek column about how the zombie genre of movies, books, and video games is thriving, and how the genre reflects progressive values (that was the tongue-in-cheek part). It got more links than almost any column I’ve written. The lesson? People love zombies. […]
Paul Waldman
Paul Waldman is a weekly columnist and senior writer for The American Prospect. He also writes for the Plum Line blog at The Washington Post and The Week and is the author of Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success.
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The Journalist and the General.
A few years ago, I was at a party at a conference and found myself chatting with a reporter for another liberal magazine. We talked for a while about politics and the media and then went on to other conversations. About a week later, something I said during that conversation ended up in a story […]
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Your Tax Dollars at Work, Air-Conditioning Edition.
(Pat Corkery/NREL) As nice as it would be if we find one magical new technology that will solve all our energy problems from now until forever (and who knows, we might), people who are serious about energy know that the solution to the energy problems that plague us — global warming, oil spills, and so […]
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A Bold New Plan!
Sigh. (Via Daily Kos) One of the image problems religion has is that a lot of its biggest fans have a rather juvenile conception of God as a capricious and cruel being who needs to be begged to stop being so mean to us — but can be persuaded to do so if we ask […]
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Keep In Touch
Savvy politicos make sure their bosses know what the current price of items like milk and gas are, because every once in a while someone will deliver a little pop quiz to the candidate, and the last thing a politician wants is to appear “out of touch” with ordinary people, like the kind of guy […]
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It’s Not You; It’s Me
As California’s same-sex-marriage trial ends, the case against marriage equality is all about straight people.
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Why Did the U.S. Get Robbed of a Win? Right-Wing Authoritarianism.
OK, I’m kidding – sort of. But bear with me. Before we get to the travesty of the Americans’ match against Slovenia, let me explain what I mean. At their cores, conservatism and liberalism have different approaches to bad behavior, whether we’re talking about kids acting out or criminals making mayhem. The conservative perspective says […]
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Dogs of War.
Things may gradually be improving in Iraq, but it’s not a good time to be a dog in Baghdad, as Mother Jones tells us: Amid its struggles with Sunni jihadists, Shiite radicals, and Kurdish separatists, the Iraqi government is training its sights on a new enemy: dogs. According to the UK’s Daily Mail, Iraq is […]
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What Ever Happened to Ann Coulter?
Remember Ann Coulter? Seems like just yesterday she was Queen of the Right, the whole political world hanging on her every bile-laced tirade. Yet she’s all but disappeared. Not that she isn’t trying. She’s still got her weekly column over at Human Events (latest entry: “Alvin Greene: The Most Qualified Democrat I Have Ever Seen” […]
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Real Presidents Don’t Eat Quiche.
So, you say in zis dream your mother is chasing you vith a giant cucumber, and you have no cucumber of your own vith vich to strike her down? Very interesting… You may not recall (it was a relatively short-lived campaign kerfuffle), but in August 2008, John McCain attacked Barack Obama for mentioning that one […]
