Paul Waldman

Josh Green tells us that coverage of the oil spill has driven the Tea Party out of the news. That’s to be expected, but what we’ve seen in recent days is that the rest of the country is starting to grasp what we lefties have been saying all along: these people are kind of crazy. […]

You may have heard in recent days about Foxconn, a company that owns factories in China that assemble electronics for such companies as Apple, Dell, and HP. You didn’t think your iPhone was put together in Cupertino, did you? Of course not. Unfortunately, people working at Foxconn’s gigantic Shenzen factory, which makes iPhones and iPads, […]

Boy, it sure is a good thing the Roberts Court isn’t a bunch of judicial activists. Here’s their latest move: The Supreme Court stepped into another campaign finance controversy on Tuesday when it blocked Arizona from distributing campaign subsidies to publicly funded candidates facing big-spending opponents. The justices granted a stay of a portion of […]

I’d never want to run for public office, for a number of reasons. But if I did, I’d go into it knowing that part of the deal was suffering a whole lot of slings and arrows. No one should accept people lying about them, of course, but if you become a candidate, people on the […]

Greg Sargent informs us that important journalistic organizations are deeply concerned about reporting important news: Even before the controversy erupted over Helen Thomas‘ remarks, Fox was locked in a behind-the-scenes “death match” with Bloomberg News over who would next inherit her front-row seat in the White House press room, according to a source close to […]

The Pew Research Center has an interesting report out about interracial marriage. You won’t be surprised to learn that it has increased significantly: In 1980, 6.7 percent of the newly married were married to someone of a different ethnicity; in 2008 the number had risen to 14.6 percent: But there are lots of other interesting […]

Let’s face it: Pretty much nobody knows what to do about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. To even begin to assess your options, you need very specialized knowledge that few people have, and even then it doesn’t appear to be much help. This doesn’t stop untrained political consultants and elected officials from […]

The most glittering star in the Republican firmament, whose every Facebook update and Twitter missive sets journalists’ laptops humming, who is currently embroiled in a feud with her next-door neighbor (now that the kid who knocked up her daughter has temporarily faded from view), who has one best-selling book and another on the way, not […]