Stoner jokes aside, the debate over America’s drug policy is sounding increasingly sane.
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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Letting Lieberman Off the Hook.
The big news coming out of the Sunday shows is that Joe “with Democrats on everything but the war” Lieberman told Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation that he is so vehemently opposed to the inclusion of a public option in health-care reform that he would join Republicans in their filibuster of the bill if […]
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Fox and Foes
The Fox debacle isn’t a tale of media versus government — it’s about a television network trying to rewrite journalism’s rules.
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Attention Must Be Paid.
Although the fact that Olympia Snowe voted for the Finance Committee’s version of health-care reform was welcome, it shouldn’t have surprised anyone. If Snowe had voted no, she would have made herself instantly irrelevant, because a no vote there would have guaranteed a no vote on the floor, and another no vote on the conference […]
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A Case for Empathy
Last week, we got to see what it looks like when a justice is unable to view the world from another’s perspective.
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The Second Coming of Sarah Palin
Will Alaska’s former governor become the leader of the GOP’s religious wing?
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Hurry Up and Wait
Why passing health-care reform might not be the political boon you’d expect.
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Glenn Beck’s Party
The message of the GOP is being delivered by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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It’s Not the Racism, It’s the Race-Baiting.
In the past few days, there has been a lot of discussion about the role race plays in the rising tide of birther/tenther/teabagger opposition to President Obama, mostly because of the column I wrote the other day here at TAP about the topic. (Ha! Not really – it had to do more with Jimmy Carter […]
