Shadow of the Hegemon

Congratulations to the Republican party, for screwing the pooch so thoroughly that even the worst debate performance in modern American hist...

Oh, I had to come back for THIS. Paul Ryan is Romney's running mate? You've gotta be kidding me. Really, this must be a joke.  T...

May have been a bit too fast on that "Scalia Court" last month. Who knew that Roberts was going to show some self-awareness? Who k...

Well, what were you expecting after Citizens United ? Walker outraised Barrett by eight to one, with most of that money coming from outside ...

Yes, this point in ThinkProgress about how small businesses wouldn't be affected by the Buffet rule is an important one. Useful, too, s...

Huh. I'd been keeping an eye on this nonsense going on with the Canadian "progressive bloggers" list— quasi-summary here by ...

The Republic isn't seeing its best days. So it's good to take your positive moments when you get them.

Libraries? You're seriously cutting state funding for PUBLIC LIBRARIES? Granted, this is a problem across all of America, as ignorant...

Apologies for the lack of updates. Been occupied (heh) of late. Not quite sure if I buy that the latest upward tick in the jobs numbers is...

Credit where credit's due . Obama and the Dems faced the Republicans down, got a big win, made them look like chumps, and demonstrated a...

Yep. See it for yourself . Well, at least it's not Zuckerberg again. Or Paul Ryan, which was apparently a serious possibility. Sure, i...

So Arctic methane's being released faster than anybody had expected , thanks to the melting of polar ice. Methane's an even worse gr...

Watch this video. Right now. This is what America has sunk to. No, let me amend that. America has always treated its minorities t...

No, really. We should give the guy a hand. He's given the order for the cops to clear Zucotti in the middle of the night, and he's a...

One of the best parts about the "Occupy" movement? The fact that it baffles and enrages television and print pundits. Not all are ...

The Brooks twaddle I just mentioned makes a bit more sense when you read Paul Krugman's piece about " Panicked Plutocrats ". ...

This has to be a new record. Sure, the piece itself is ridiculous nonsense. He bandies about that raising the income taxes on people makin...

I had thought it would fizzle out. It hasn't. It's getting bigger, it's getting more coherent, and it's finding a winning na...

Well, it looks like the ISI had a hand in the Kabul attacks. Pakistan's powerful intelligence agency communicated with Afghan insurg...

From Wigan Pier: But there is no doubt about the deadening, debilitating effect of unemployment upon everybody, married or single, and upon...

All these years, and Charles Krauthammer is still insisting that the lack of a second AQ attack proved that the War on Terror worked. Of ...

Ten years.  It's been ten years since Osama Bin Laden's people attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Ten years since t...

So, yeah, Jonathan Chait wrote a howler in the New York Times , where he brought the rank rightish apologias of the National Review New Rep...

With any luck, more people will be able to call themselves laborers by this time next year.

YES , YOU THUNDERING DOLT, YOU HAVE . Maybe if you'd been addressing it as often as your fellow columnist Paul Krugman has, instead ...

It looks like Irene got downgraded to a tropical storm, but it's still no joke.

As always, go check AJ's live feed .

From Al Jazeera : Euphoric Libyan rebels have moved into the centre of the capital, Tripoli, as Muammar Gaddafi's defenders melted awa...

I'm not on Google Plus, for reasons that should be quickly obvious: I use a pseudonym here, I'm very open about using a pseudonym h...

Barbara Ehrenreich updates Nickled and Dimed for 2011 . It's horrifying. You want to know what America really is? It's stuffing p...

From CNNMoney : When the unexpected strikes, most Americans aren't prepared to pay for it. A majority, or 64%, of Americans don'...

So the Republicans have made their picks, and not surprisingly, they're all nutbar right-wingers: For the House, it's Jeb Hensarli...