Tim Fernholz

Via Feministing, it turns out that one of the reasons cited by Sarah Palin for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan is worse than why we previously believed she fired him: merely abusing her power to take revenge on a former brother-in-law. (See this ABC News report for the basics). She did it because Monegan […]

Folks have been agitating for Barack Obama to break down his economic plan. Here is a two-minute television commercial that he’s released today (transcript after the jump) outlining his goals. It’s nothing new to anyone who has followed Obama’s economic positions, but the campaign’s goal is probably reaching out to exactly the opposite crowd. Pundits, […]

Time for the latest research on global warming, urbanism and latino political power. Another reason to fear global warming? A study published this month in Nature validates the contentious worry that warming oceans will drastically increase the intensity of our world’s most powerful cyclones. Scientists predict that a 1°C increase in sea-surface temperature would lead […]

Adam wrote about the efforts of the Michigan GOP to suppress voting by challenging the legitimacy of people voting if their home has been foreclosed, a practice known as voter “caging.” Now, the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee have filed suit in Federal Court seeking an injunction against the Michigan GOP that would […]

McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin’s claim that John McCain helped create the Blackberry has been gleefully e-mailed around by Obama flacks complete with “LOL! OMG!” in the subject line. But here’s the really funny part: Let’s say that McCain’s time on the Commerce Committee really did support industries that developed Blackberry-type technology, as Al Gore’s time […]

John McCain will fix your economy! [McCain] has never departed in any major way from his party’s embrace of deregulation and relying more on market forces than on the government to exert discipline. In early 1995, after Republicans had taken control of Congress, Mr. McCain promoted a moratorium on federal regulations of all kinds. He […]

Funny, isn’t it, that a guy as traditional as John McCain is essentially staking his career on the very postmodern proposition that no one can really determine what the truth is? Farhad Manjoo, like too many journalists, discusses the idea as an observer of a rather interesting ploy, revealing, in the process, more about himself […]

Much to everyone’s excitement, John McCain this morning pronounced the fundamentals of our economy to be strong. Now obviously we’re having a variety of economic troubles right now, as McCain conceded, but perhaps the underlying fundamentals are still doing well. So I did a little research and e-mailed some experts about what counts as a […]

It turns out that Sarah Palin’s claim that she visited Iraq is, in fact, another lie. (Brief media criticism interlude — the American press: “Obama camp suggests Palin has distorted record.” The foreign press: “McCain campaign admits Palin never visited Iraq.”) In fact, Palin has only visited the troops in Kuwait. Aside from the fact […]

Literally, they’re live-blogging it over at the Times. But what does the fall of the House of Lehman mean? Hopefully, as Ezra writes, market-wide intervention and regulation focused on protecting the base of the financial pyramid (consumers) and not the point (executives, big shareholders). With the decision not to have the government bail out the […]