Can it happen here?

Click on the image to open it larger in a new page. It presents a clear history where the famous deficit orginated. At the end of the Clinto...

As of this morning, Organizing for America has accumulated activist pledges of 3.3 million hours on behalf of Congresscritters supporting he...

Republicans keep insisting that "tort reform" -- limiting damages or forbidding lawsuits altogether for medical malpractice -- is ...

In this disappointing winter, as we watch Democrats we put in power flap about weakly, Christopher Hayes in the Nation offered an answer to...

In the next few days, it is very likely that atrocities will be committed by the forces of the United States in Afghanistan. I know that...

Well, maybe. If I'm to judge by my email inbox, the Obama administration seems to have noticed that it will be catastrophic among it cor...

The blue bars are the share of national income earned by the population segments listed at the bottom; the magenta bars are the share those ...

Every once in a while I write a screed against "instant run-off voting" (or as "ranked choice voting") as we call it in ...

According to the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder: About 80 percent of the world's telecom traffic was handled by routers based in th...

Speaker Pelosi's office clearly has a fine statistical display artist. Check out this chart: Readable version here. Though this is desig...

Take that marketing execs. This isn't so much fun, but Planned Parenthood offered its own response ad:

comes the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC in mid-February. As per usual, the host city wishes its poor citizens would disappear for the dur...

I'm still, after about 40 years, enough of an east coast transplant to think Spring ought not to show up on the first day of February. B...

Billie won't mind at all that the Sunday afternoon thing the humans do with all the yelling and drinking is almost over for another year...

One of the two pillars that make deficit reduction and responsible governance that "promotes the general welfare" (that's from...

It would be greatly exaggerating to call what Obama did in front of some Organizing for America (OFA) folks in Virginia this afternoon a con...

The first item here is serious -- the others just diverting, but nonetheless interesting. *** What's one of the most useful relief suppl...

You don't have to believe me. Here's Jon Taplin, a Professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, suggesting there could ...

When democracies elect progressive politicians, we hope to see public campaigns like this poster in contemporary Chile. Maybe our Democratic...

Hiker waste deep in the willows. Not my pic; from here. I can feel the resistance in me rising again. I'm about to plunge into another s...