As we go around and around on waterboarding yet again, I couldn’t help noticing that I cannot recall a single instance in which I’ve seen a journalist simply refer to waterboarding and similar methods of interrogation as “torture.” Yet they use terms like “enhanced interrogation techniques” over and over. The Republicans certainly won the language […]
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 Plutocrats v. The Theocrats
As the primaries (finally) approach, it is increasingly apparent that the real GOP battle is between the business wing and the social conservative wing of the party. Is the real showdown going to be over the future of the GOP?
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GOD IS MY CO-PILOT, AND MY IOWA FIELD DIRECTOR.
Via Mother Jones, we see that Mike Huckabee is claiming in about as explicit a way as he can that God has engineered his recent rise in the polls: Isn’t that a tad presumptuous? Or is Huckabee just saying that God is giving him a temporary bump in the polls, only to send his campaign […]
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NOW WE’RE GETTING SOMEWHERE.
After the last Republican debate, the press was giddy with talk of negativity. Smackdown! The claws come out! GOP candidates duke it out! You would have thought After the last Republican debate, the press was giddy with talk of negativity. Smackdown! The claws come out! GOP candidates duke it out! You would have thought Rudy […]
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Woe is the American Worker
Workers are paying the price for our productivity-focused, growth-at- any-cost business world. Why aren’t the candidates talking about it?
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WHAT WOULD JESUS DODGE?
To hear the press tell it, the best moment of last night’s debate was when Mike Huckabee answered a question about whether Jesus would support the death penalty by saying, “Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office.” Reporters were in awe. The Washington Post called it “the best line of the night.The […]
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The Ideal Opponent
Who are our potential presidents hoping to run against in the general election? Here’s a rundown of the front-runners’ ideal match-ups.And, on TAPPED, Dana Goldstein, Scott Lemieux, Kate Sheppard, and Rob Farley discuss match-ups.
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THAT’S ONE WAY TO SECURE THE BASE.
The Virginia Republican Party is serving voters that precious combination of desperation and authoritarian impulse for which the national GOP is becoming known: The Republican Party of Virginia wants voters in the Feb. 12 GOP presidential primary to sign a pledge that they will support the party’s nominee. The state Board of Elections approved the […]
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HE’S GOOD PEOPLE, THAT BERNIE.
Let’s say you want to renovate your house, but you don’t have the quarter million dollars it’s going to cost lying around. What do you do? Get a home equity loan? Pshaw – that’s for little people. Me, I get an Israeli billionaire defense contractor to give the money to a Brooklyn marble salesman, who […]
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The Youth Vote, the Culture Wars, and Barack Obama
Young voters are particularly important in this election, not because they alone will pick the next president, but because of what their increasingly progressive attitudes suggest about the evolution of politics.
