Danny Goldberg, a music-industry veteran and prominent progressive donor who spent what he describes as “one unhappy year midway through Air America’s life as its CEO” has an interesting piece on Alternet about the radio network’s demise. While it’s true that there was terrible mismanagement over the course of Air America’s existence, Goldberg argues that […]
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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What Is the Sound of One Senator Tweeting?
Gawker tells us that in addition to being far ahead of their Democratic counterparts in the donning of tri-corner hats, GOP members of Congress are leading the way on Twitter: According to a newly released survey, Republican politicians dominate the congressional Twitter-verse. Meanwhile, Barack Obama just sent his first “Tweet” last month. Twitter Gap! A […]
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The Holy War Pitch
We’re only doing al-Qaeda recruiters a favor by casting its young men as invincible warriors.
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The Health-Care Smackdown.
Contrary to Tim, I’m not totally skeptical of the news that Obama has invited Republicans to have a half-day conference — at which they’d tell him why his health-care bill is awful, and he’d tell them why they’re wrong. This is, of course, a media event in the strictest sense — it has no legislative […]
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Barack Obama, the President of Ordinary Joes.
Greg Sargent already pointed out the absurdity of this Washington Post article, but there’s something else of which we should take note. The article asserts that Obama is “a rare president who comes from the middle class, yet people still perceive him as disconnected from it. As he arrived in Nashua, nearly two-thirds of Americans […]
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America, In Present and Future Tense.
E. J. Dionne had a talk with Joe Biden on the subject of American superiority (Biden is strongly in favor), which brings up yet another way in which the right and the left are often talking past each other when they appear to be talking about the same thing. Progressives tend to find conservative jingoism […]
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Will DADT Repeal Be No Big Deal?
Over at Foreign Policy, Israeli scholar Danny Kaplan has an article about Israel’s experience since it lifted its ban on gays serving in the military back in 1993. The piece’s title — “They’re Here, They’re Queer, It’s No Big Deal” — pretty much says it all: The United States and Turkey are now the only […]
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Beyond the Creative Class
TAP talks with Christopher Carrick, an urban planner with the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board, about regional inequality and if there is life after Richard Florida.
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The Danger of Hiding Behind the Generals.
A key part of the conservative argument for keeping the ban on gay Americans serving in the military is that military leaders supposedly tell us that removing the ban will cause untold chaos. The problem comes when those military leaders begin to change their minds, as John McCain is finding out. His previous position was […]
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Rush Limbaugh Makes Me Sad.
Rush Limbaugh is happy that Obama is having political troubles, which is as it should be. But this remark is kind of odd: “This is the first time in his life there is not a professor who can turn his C into an A, or to write the law review article for him he can’t […]
