Let’s start Election Day with the great Leonard Cohen performing “Democracy” in 1993.
Did my wife’s cosmetics give her breast cancer?
How gays won the right to raise children without conservatives even noticing.
Forget Kenya. The president’s secret political philosophy is apparently rooted in seventeenth-century Rotterdam.
How medical supply behemoths stick it to the little guy, making America’s health care system more dangerous and expensive. July/August 2010
Why you should still be angry about Bush v. Gore March 2001
Want to get college costs in line? Start by cutting the overgrown management ranks. September/October 2011
The Henry II Theory of Presidential Responsibility
Exciting new frontiers in blaming Obama for everything. By Ed Kilgore 06/09/2013
An All-Renewable Future Is Already Feasible for Australia
An all-green society, coming soon. By James Wimberley 06/08/2013
Mortality Among Poorly-educated Women
Life expectancy falling among our most vulnerable. By Bill Gardner 06/07/2013
How U.S. Politics Was Hijacked by Partisans
Power has devolved to the people. And the people hate it. By Ezra Klein 06/05/2013
The Blind Monkey Theorem, or What Ayn Rand Got Right
CS Lewis did have a bias against science. By Mark Kleiman 06/04/2013
The 11 Biggest Conservative Scandal Faceplants
Right media, repeatedly tripping over its own shoelaces. By Ryan Cooper 06/03/2013
Paterno Family Sues the NCAA
Over “coercion and threats.” By Daniel Luzer 06/03/2013
Why We Let UN Troops Get Slaughtered
They’re stuck with fourth-rate equipment. By Paul Stephens 06/01/2013
The Misogynist Public Policy Agenda
Our new plutocracy means women have to work. By Ed Kilgore 05/31/2013
What Those Bicep Size and Political Attitudes Papers Are Really About
By Andrew Gelman 05/31/2013
Profs in the Cloud
The perils and promise of online learning. By Richard D. Kahlenberg 05/29/2013
Revolution for Thee, Not Me
Online learning will transform the nature of college for everybody—except the affluent. By Daniel Luzer 05/29/2013
Between a Rock and a Stupid Place
Cutting off your nose to spite Obama. By Ed Kilgore 05/29/2013
The Conservative Reformist Movement Is Still on the Policy Launchpad
By Ryan Cooper 05/28/2013
The Great Unraveling
Chronicling America’s not-quite-decline. By Michael O’Donnell 05/27/2013
‘Obama Scandals’ Could Actually Hurt Republicans
The GOP can’t forget a plan for governance. By Ramesh Ponnuru 05/25/2013
Why Obama’s Scandals Won’t Lead to Reform
The GOP cares wholly about attacking the president. By Ezra Klein 05/25/2013
Self-Made Countries
Why poor nations aren’t prisoners of their history. By Charles Kenny 05/24/2013
The Year of Living Historically
What Xiaoping, a Pope, the Ayatollah, and Thatcher had in common. By Jacob Heilbrunn 05/23/2013
Oregon’s Radical Health Overhaul Blazes New Trail
They’re headed for universal coverage or bust. By Ezra Klein 05/21/2013
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R on November 06, 2012 9:32 AM:
Great choice.
"...
Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on.
It's coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
..."
jpeckjr on November 06, 2012 10:18 AM:
Deeply satisfying, musically and patriotically.
JR on November 06, 2012 11:12 AM:
Not nearly as moving but, to me, even more telling: a clip on the 2000 GOP Convention from the Chris Rock Show. I revisited it after viewing Rock's brilliant Message to White Voters. Yes, it's funny as hell, but the truly striking moments happen a little after the 2:00 mark. Rock poses the question: "When will we have a black President?" Listening to it now, 12 years later and possibly re-electing Barack Obama, it's a sharp reminder of how far we've come.
JR on November 06, 2012 11:14 AM:
Oops! Forgot to post the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKi2yi_zaFQ