Seems like this would be an easy question to answer, but it turns out that we could find no group,... Read more...
As he keeps demonstrating, President Obama is not exactly Mount Rushmore material. But — good God! — the petulant pettiness and... Read more...
Bill Watterson is Mark Twain–with a drawing pen. He is a master cartoonist, but also a sharp-witted observer of the... Read more...
In January, a small group of Indiana schoolteachers encountered their governor, Mitch Daniels, in a hallway of the state capitol. They... Read more...
You’re not likely to have known Robert Clark, Ruth West, Chet Newall, Webb Kamp, or Darrell Odom, but I wouldn’t be... Read more...
It’s unlikely that you have heard of a novel entitled Alpaca, but it was a remarkably portentous piece of political writing by... Read more...
In 1986, Richard Kimball, a Democratic state legislator in Arizona, was running for a US Senate seat. In a televised... Read more...
Unfortunately, the corporatization of America’s judiciary is not just a problem at the top. For more than 30 years, there has... Read more...
One of the great works of American political literature is Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary, first published in 1906. From A-Z, Bierce... Read more...
Is there no balm in Gilead…Â or in Washington? Will no Democrat soothe the people’s anger at the constant giveaways to... Read more...
Lonnie Johnson was the early blues and jazz great who turned the guitar into a solo instrument. In the 1920s, he... Read more...
Profits up!” gloat today’s headlines in the business media. The New York Times reports that the profits of 175 of... Read more...
By gollies, when the economic going gets toughfor America’s workaday people, you can always count on our tough-minded political leaders... Read more...
Their names probably won’t mean mean anything to you, but these people ought to have some modicum of personal recognition: Jason... Read more...
In the 1970s, Lily Tomlin developed an iconic comic character she named Ernestine–a telephone clerk who took perverse pleasure from hectoring... Read more...
If a political pollster came to my door and asked whether I consider myself a conservative or a liberal, I’d... Read more...
Change. That’s what Americans want. We the People–a.k.a. the body politic, the majority, the great unwashed, the hoi polloi, “us”–have made... Read more...
Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Ginsburg , Justice Breyer, and Justice Sotomayor join, concurring in part and dissenting in part.... Read more...
“For too long,” wailed the senator in a heart-tugging cry for justice, “some in this country have been deprived of full... Read more...
To put an intellectual gloss on their hard-core antigovernment beliefs, the Kochs founded and funded their own think tank: the... Read more...
Despite a constant racket from the forces of the far-out right (Fox television’s yackety-yackers, just-say-no GOP know-nothings, tea-bag howlers, Sarah Palinistas,... Read more...
The fanciful notion that a corporation is a “person” and is thus imbued with fundamental constitutional rights stems from–get this–a mistake.... Read more...
At his 2005 hearing to be confirmed as chief justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts had to convince some skeptical... Read more...
The Bible tells us that on the sixth day, God created man, allowing him to live in the lush Garden... Read more...
Out in West Texas, an oxymoronic weather phenomenon known as a “dry rainstorm” often occurs. It’s particularly tough on farmers.... Read more...