Tornados, IRS scandal, Benghazi scrutiny, and wire-tapping; the country has seen its fill of bad omens and forboding in recent days. What’s Obama to do to change the narrative?
Steve Erickson
Steve Erickson has contributed to The New York Times, Esquire, Rolling Stone and Los Angeles. He teaches at CalArts, and his new novel is These Dreams of You (Europa Editions).
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The Frankenstein Foreign-Policy Crisis
It’s hard to remember a problem as large as Syria, for which there are so few prospects and those that we have are so barely tolerable.
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The Second Explosion
Americans don’t like ambiguity, which is why some of us find comfort in the clarity of a second boom that marks an attack an act of terrorism.
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The Gun Debate’s Inconvenient Truths
In the same way that the First Amendment doesn’t protect, say, child pornography, gun-rights advocates must recognize that Second Amendment rights are not absolute.
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Obama: The Republicans’ Devil
What the resemblence between the president and the History Channel’s Prince of Darkness says about today’s GOP.
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Rand Paul’s Lonely Stand
The Senator from Kentucky’s 13-hour monologue this week restored some long-forgotten heroism to the tradition of the filibuster.
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Bringing Up Beltway at the Oscars
Hollywood and D.C. aren’t so different after all.
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The Grand Old Jurassic Party
With its focus on ideological purity, the Republican species is on the brink of extinction.
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The Bitter Twilight of John McCain
The Arizona senator’s contempt for Chuck Hagel in yesterday’s confirmation hearing is all about the guy who nominated him.
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The Line between Roe and Wade
The abortion debate is dominated by absolutists on both ends, even as most Americans remain in the squeamish middle.