Tag Archives: politics

There But for Fortune – Phil Ochs Ezra Klein comments on Obama’s claim that inequality is “the defining challenge of our time.” Income inequality is easy to worry about. It offends our moral intuitions. Its tears into the fabric of the … Continue reading →

Talk to Me Now – Ani DiFranco John Dickerson posits that Congress could be improved if its members were forced to play a cooperative ‘escape room’ game, like the one he played earlier this week: This week, I volunteered to be … Continue reading →

The New Improved Hypocrisy – The Radio Dept. I generally find accusations of political hypocrisy to be pretty tiresome.  Good for a little zing but not much more than that. Consistency is overrated, etc.  But this one is so infuriating that … Continue reading →

We live in a country that is pretty divided on the issue of abortion.  Rather than our current compromise (which effectively keeps abortion legal but permits states to make it very difficult or almost impossible to achieve), how about this … Continue reading →

There’s a talking point which says that it’s standard practice to negotiate over the debt ceiling, that ‘clean increases’ rarely happen.  This might make it seem like the current strategy is just a normal extension of politics as it has … Continue reading →

Already Lost – Rainer Maria 1. The Republicans have already won.  This entire ‘debate’ is taking place on terrain to simply continue funding the government at the level of the sequester.  Remember the sequester?  The thing that was so ludicrously stupid that … Continue reading →

Poison Cup – M. Ward I just finished Gretchen Ritter’s The Constitution As Social Design, which attempts to connect our Constitutional processes to our conceptions of civic membership, often in very interesting ways. I can’t 100% recommend the book, since I … Continue reading →

Genius And The Thieves – Eluvium Harold Maass at The Week asks: Is Obama trying to stack the courts with liberals? If by ‘stack’ you mean ‘nominate judges to fill vacancies’ – then yes.  Yes he is. The nefarious plot here is … Continue reading →