2015 Hottest Year on Record

My current favorite blogger, Jonathan Chait, takes great pleasure in skewering the flailings of climate change denialists like George Will....

Chait: The Paris Climate Deal Is President Obama’s Biggest Accomplishment

Jonathan Chait argues that last week’s climate deal is the most significant of Obama’s long list of accomplishments.  I tend...

Politics Comes from a Different Place

I feel like there’s more to be said about this, but for now I’m just going to make it as...

From Vox: Watch: President Obama’s furious reaction to another mass shooting in America

This piece was posted on Vox last night. You can clearly see President Obama’s anger at having to mourn an...

Readings: Bad Lip Reading, The Donald, etc

More readings from recent days: I hadn’t been aware of “Bad Lip Reading” until this.  Funny stuff.  The Bad Lip...

Readings: Climate Change, Voting Rights, What Obama Said, Derp, Rauner, etc

More valuable readings from recent days… Climate change is real and it’s our doing.  Scientists Drop Science Bomb on Climate...

Obama at Selma: His Best Speech Yet?

What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this, what greater form of patriotism is there than the belief...

State of the Union Notes

I haven’t had much time for reading up on it this week, but here are just a few things I came...

Dionne: With Immigration Action, Obama Calls his Opponents’ Bluff

EJ Dionne, yesterday. That only a few [Republicans are interested in passing a comprehensive bill] is an obvious sign to the...

Obstructionism Triumphed, but Obama, Dems Still Fighting for Regular People

…from the DCCC: After Tuesday’s tough election, there’s a lot of talk about what happened, why, and what it means...