Love her or hate her, Sarah Palin’s resignation as governor of Alaska means political coverage is about to get a lot less interesting.
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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Health Care’s True Price
The real reason we need a public option in health-care reform isn’t cost control. It’s security.
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The Fretting Over Health Care Reform
Is health-care history just repeating itself? Not quite.
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Health Care Reform Villains
It’s time for Obama to start naming the bad guys in the battle over health care reform.
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The Left and the Living Dead
In the event of a zombie apocalypse, will progressive ideals win out?
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Judicial Abstraction
Republicans talk so much about “judicial activism” because it’s a dog whistle to the base. Too bad that base is increasingly small and irrelevant.
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It’s Gingrich Time
The return of the former House speaker is not only due to the leadership vacuum in the GOP. Republicans are back in opposition, and nobody opposes quite like Newt.
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The Health-Care Time Warp
With the health-care debate underway once again, Republicans are dusting off the same rhetorical playbook they used during the Clinton years.
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Not Even Chuck Norris Can Save the GOP
Celebrities and everymans are the pundits of choice for the GOP. Is it any wonder Republicans are directionless?
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A Taxing Argument
Republicans think they’ll revive their party by repeating the refrain of “small government, lower taxes.” Unfortunately for them, taxation isn’t quite the problem they imagine it to be.
