What do Tea Partiers do when the drama of storming the barricades fades to ordinary politics?
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Daily Meme: Strange Doin’s in Dixie
No subject tends to confound political pundits-or national Democrats and liberals in general-quite like Southern politics. And if you don’t believe it, take a gander at the oft-cited 2006 manual for Democratic Dixie-bashing, Tom Schaller’s Whistling Past Dixie, which bizarrely recommended that the party abandon the nation’s largest and fastest-growing region (not to mention its […]
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I Have Seen the Future, and It’s ‘Wisdom Journalism’
A new book argues it’s no longer enough for journalists simply to transmit information.
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Sorry, Right-Wing Media, Unionization Is Good for Liberal Publications
Conservative outlets are saying organizing workers “destroys diversity,” but that’s simply not true.
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Daily Meme: The Ugliness of Being a Woman Boss
Yesterday, the New York Times fired its executive editor, Jill Abramson, the first woman to lead the paper in its 163 years of publication. When a woman finally reaches this pinnacle-perhaps the single most important position in journalism in America, if not the world-then gets shown the door after just two and a half years, […]
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Moral Monday Movement Gears Up for Round Two
As the North Carolina state legislature reopens on May 14 with no ideological reversal in sight, the Monday takeovers of the rotunda will resume. So, likely, will the arrests.
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Daily Meme: Is the Obamacare Tantrum Finally Over?
Sometimes, the best thing to do with a child throwing a tantrum is to let them have it and wait for them to wear themselves out. Could the GOP-after voting to repeal Obamacare more than 50 times-have finally grown tired of its own screams? For the first time in quite some time, Republicans’ congressional calendar […]
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Daily Meme: It Ain’t Easy Being a Koch
Pity the poor Koch brothers. All Charles and David want to do is make America safe for good, old-fashioned, Wild West capitalism. But somehow, they seem to be teeing everybody off-left and right. Plus, it’s so doggone pricey to buy control of the federal government these days! The K-Bros dished out $400 million to defeat […]
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Daily Meme: Monica Lewinsky Tells All (Again)
Online editors and traffic-watchers across the country jumped for joy today when Vanity Fair published a teaser of Monica Lewinsky’s tell-all piece in its latest issue, due out later this week. Here’s the money quote: “Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual […]
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Could a Clinton Candidacy Give Us a Healthy Debate About Sexism?
She’s been surprisingly willing to talk about it, given how afraid politicians usually are of coming off like victims.