Why This Week’s SOTU Was So Much About the Economy

Jonathan Chait wrote a piece yesterday on why Obama felt obliged to devote so much of Tuesday night’s State of...

Why I Am Not a Republican, Part 326 (Arkansas Medicaid Expansion – Not)

Yet another story illustrating the depravity of today’s Republican Party.  They so hate Obama and so hate the notion of...

Why King Still Matters

A timely reminder from Ed Kilgore yesterday about why we still need to hear the message of Martin Luther King...

Unemployment Insurance: GOP Filibusters the Unemployed

Well, the question never even made it to the House.  It appears to have died in the Senate at the...

Can We Get Help for the Unemployed Out Of the House?

In the course of a worthy rumination on how we might get some relief for Americans who still need unemployment...