By • Aug 26,2009

Healthcare: Obama vs. Schumer

Give Chuck Schumer credit. He was trying really, really — yes, really — hard to pretend that the President hasn’t waffled on the public option, backing away from his commitment...

By • Aug 26,2009

And yet, she has two book deals

Julie Powell, the bloggy half of Julie and Julia, has penned a piece over at XX. It is, how do you say, awful? Yes, awful. That’s the word. The concept...

By • Aug 26,2009

The only thing worse…

… than Woodstock nostalgia is Kennedy nostalgia. RIP to Ted and all that — he was a very effective senator for the things he believed in who leaves behind a...

By • Aug 24,2009

Happy Blogiversary, Kevin!

It’s been seven years now that Kevin Drum’s been blogging. His story says something great about the blogosphere. Some of the early bloggers were grad students in their pajamas. (Why...

By • Aug 24,2009

Are we now the Soviets in Afghanistan?

Matt Yglesias asks: If you read accounts of the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, people generally always seem to think that American and Saudi and Pakistani support for...