In January, President Obama gave a speech at the Justice Department that was basically an acknowledgement that the shady ex-girlfriend stuff that the NSA has been doing to Americans, like going through our phone records and mining our internet activity, was indeed pretty damn shady. He promised, in that vague way that politicians do, to […]
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If a Candidate Goes to Iowa and No Reporter Pays Attention, Has the Presidential Campaign Begun?
The media have free will on whether to cover what potential candidates are doing. But you have free will on whether to pay attention.
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The Death of an Employer Scam
The government cracks down on employers who pretend their workers aren’t really employees.
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After the Midterms: Impeachment?
The rhetoric surrounding the president has always been extreme, but how far could it go this year?
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What the Koch Brothers Can Do For Liberals
There’s no villain like a president from the other party. But in a pinch, a couple of billionaire brothers will do.
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Disrespecting Your Defender
As he insults the Obama administration, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon weakens his own country.
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The GOP’s Racial Dog Whistling and the Social Safety Net
Republicans’ coded language is as much about riling up animus towards the very existence of certain social programs as it is hate-mongering.
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Is There Hope for the Survivors of the Drug Wars?
Criminalized and discarded, falling at the bottom of every statistic, they want something better.Â
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Daily Meme: Fred Phelps, God’s Gift to Gay Rights
You’ve no doubt heard that Fred Phelps, the terror of Topeka, Kansas, and patriarch of the “God Hates Fags” Westboro Baptist church, died late Wednesday night at 84. While Phelps came to infamy picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard and countless other gay men, that was only the beginning of his family church’s two-decade hate […]
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The Decline of Conservative Publishing
The days when any two-bit hack with an anti-liberal screed could get on the bestseller lists are apparently behind us.
