George Packer: Two Minds on Syria

George Packer captures the agony of thinking about what’s going on in Syria and what we can/should do about it:...

Obamacare Helping Folks in Spite of Themselves

Heart-warming?  Tragic?  Amusing?  Aggravating?  I guess in the end, the point is that people are getting the health care they...

Is the GOP House Majority Forever?

My new favorite blogger, Jonathan Chait, posted a sobering piece yesterday on the apparent imperviousness of the GOP’s House majority,...

Video Primer: Why Are American Health Care Costs So High?

Here’s a useful and amusing video primer on the question of why American health care costs are so much higher...

More Sequester Damage: America’s Scientific Preeminence Threatened

More evidence today from Jonathan Cohn on the damage being done by the GOP’s reckless use of the sequester to...

Obamacare Subsidies Mean Big Savings for Americans

As we approach the next rollout milestone for Obamacare this fall, the GOP is becoming more and more desperate to...

Monstrous GOP, Part the 3,216th

I continue to be at a loss as to how any decent person, with even the slightest bit of concern...