Domestic issues
186 posts · all topics
- Bloomberg: How To Use Immigration Policy to Save Detroit
- AT&T Is Asking Us To Trust Them
- Capitalism in Practice
- Paul Ryan's America
- Campbell's Law
- Right Wing Mythology
- The Sheeple of r/libertarian
- Lies and Facts About the "Ground Zero Mosque"
- Health Care Reform: A Test of Whether the Country Could Tackle Its Most Vexing, Long-Term, Systematic Problems
- Some brief thoughts on Rand Paul
- How Lawless and Increasingly Violent is the Arizona-Mexico Border? Not Very.
- Right Wing Christians Against Net Neutrality Want To Censor Your Internet
- Rooting for a Fiscal Catastrophe (cont.)
- America in the Red
- Must-Reads of the Week: American Power, Inequality, 1 Billion Heartbeats, Hacking Life, Anthora Cups, Structural Deficit, Financial Doomsedays and Crises, China, the Tea Party's Views on Immigration, and Lady Gaga
- Chait v. Seib: "Seib, like Jeffrey Dahmer, is an imperfect human being."
- Yglesias Award Nominee
- How Not To Prove Someone Is Not a Racist
- Republicans have an absolutely brilliant strategy on financial reform. Too bad it's evil.
- The Populist Right Isn't a Political Movement.
- Government Is Good!
- Evaluating Mitt Romney's 2012 Candidacy
- Senator Lindsey Graham: Fiscal Chickenhawk
- Must-Reads of the Week: Google/China, Liberal American Exceptionalism, The Failed War on Drugs, Defending the Individual Mandate, Counter Counter-Insurgency, Idiocrats, and Men Did It!
- Our Unhinged Debate on Health Care Reform (cont.)
- Liberalism and the Punishments of the Free Market
- We are not bound to win, but we are bound to be true.
- Thumbnail Sketches of Democrats and Republicans
- What Obama Is Trying to Accomplish With the Bipartisan Health Care Summit
- Why the Republicans Don't Want to Go to the Obama Health Care Summit They've Been Demanding
- Why Bipartisanship Is Impossible: The parties are locked in a zero-sum struggle for control of the government
- Richard Shelby's Brazen Exposure of Senate Flaws
- Must-Reads of the Week: Ezra Klein, Sleeper Issue of 2010, Success, Virtual Insanity, Abdulmutallab, Obstruction, and Madden
- Let's keep all that talk of a failed first year in office to a minimum.
- Obama: "I do not accept second place for the United States of America"
- How To Oppose Doing What the People Want: Pretend It's Something Else
- Explaining Republican Obstructionism: Party First
- Understanding President Obama and the budget deficit
- Respected Republican Answers the Question: "But how will you save all that money?"
- Must-Reads of the Week: Obama (mythical figure), Democratic Talking Points, Health Care Misinformation & Defenses of Reform, & Musical Predictions
- Story-Teller-In-Chief
- The Continued Failure of Right Wing Social Engineering
- The Rhetorical Phantoms of Their Own Making
- The Future of the Tea Party
- In Praise of Tinkering: Health Care Reform
- Ezra Klein: Health Care Blogger Extraordinare
- Harry Reid's Heroism
- National Review: "Soak the Rich!"
- Health Care Reform is the most significant effort at cost control in a generation, if not ever.
- America's Schizophrenic Abortion Politics
- Nancy Pelosi's Essential Leadership
- Limbaugh claims Obama is a radical leftist because he supports programs Republicans proposed a generation ago.
- What Would Republican Health Care Reform Look Like?
- A Vote To Debate Health Care Is A Vote for Democracy
- Why Do Republicans Oppose Net Neutrality?
- The most conservative senator is liberal favorite Olympia Snowe
- An Empire or a Just Society?
- Protests Against Liberals Running the Gov't (cont.)
- A Health Care Plan More Impressive Than Perfection: Something That Might Pass
- The Bankruptcy of Deficit Politics
- Lies About Health Care Reform
- The Medical Loss Ratio
- Campbell Brown Does the Best Journalism Ever!
- An idea for a new health care public service announcement
- How the Problem of Health Care Undermines the Legitimacy of the Market-State
- Organizing a Grass Roots Movement for Health Care Reform
- Matt Yglesias's Prejudiced Caricature of Catholicism
- A Generational Bargain (in which we are getting screwed)
- Are The Pieces Aligning on Health Care?
- Mirror Neurons, Iran's Fissures, Yglesian Insights, The Deficit Crisis, Rare Minerals
- Equality of Result versus Equality of Opportunity
- The Value of a Safety Net
- The Master Plan Always Has Flaws
- Free markets exist not in spite of the government, but because of government.
- Don't Be Idiots: Stop Talking About the Fairness Doctrine
- The Larger Narrative
- Obama's Grand Bargain
- Fair-Minded Yglesias
- Galvanized By Sexual Panic
- Eliot Spitzer v. Sarah Connor
- Distractions
- An Ambitious Presidency
- Don (George) Will Tilts At Imaginary Liberals
- The Generation That Sucked
- The Biggest Decision Obama Will Make
- The Detroit Investment Group
- How the Media and the Politicians Failed to Understand the Detroit Bailout
- Nuclear versus Wind
- Health Care's Place in Obamanomics
- The Manufactured Fairness Doctrine Controversy
- Jindal's Health Care Reform
- Bringing Back the Fairness Doctrine
- The Anatomy of an Obama Revolution
- Bipartisan Corruption
- Adam Reilly Argues Against the Fairness Doctine
- Jindal 2012 or 2016 (cont.)
- Obama & Trade
- Fascinating Fact of the Day
- Those Republican Leftists!
- Pro-Marriages Forces Against Gay Marriage
- Leave It To Beaver Socialism
- Barack Obama Is Not a Socialist!
- A Warning to John McCain
- David Brooks's Brand Loyalty
- A Wink and a Wagging Finger
- Fun Fact About John McCain #12: He Wants to Tax Your Health Care Benefits
- The Price of Panic
- Jesse Ventura vs. The Black Swan
- Obama v. McCain on Health Care
- McCain Ad Echoes Smear Emails
- Lies About Obama's Tax Plans
- The Complicated Business of Judging Sarah Palin
- 11 Reasons to Donate to Barack Obama Tonight
- Mixing Theology and Politics
- The Intersection of Rich, Out-of-Touch, and Old
- Why I Am Still Confident About Obama's Campaign
- Why I Support Obama
- 'The Fairness Doctrine for the Internet' is a Conservative Strawman
- The Battle Over Whether Net Neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine for the Internet
- Beware of "Fiscal Conservatives"
- Quasi-Defending the Windfall Profits Tax
- The slippery slope
- Iraq Leader Maliki Supports Obama's Withdrawal Plans
- The Housing Price Roller Coaster
- A Liberal Defends George W. Bush's Legacy
- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Socialism for the Rich
- Why I Am Still Supporting Barack Obama After His Vote For Telecom Immunity
- Krugman throws a tantrum
- Gay Google-ing
- The Drudge Primary
- "Never really interested in judges"
- The Ron Paul Revolution
- McCain: Puppies for everyone!
- The curmudgeonly conservative columnist questions McCain
- A difference in philosophy: Obama v. Clinton on gays
- A Moderate Reputation: Explaining McCain's Changes of Heart
- The Power of Story: 9/11 and the Averted Attack
- Pope Endorses Barack Obama in UN Speech
- 1928
- Betting on the American People
- Attorney-Client Privilege
- A Three Year Old Endorses Obama
- Rich dumb kids
- A More Perfect Union
- The Prosecution of Governor Siegelman
- Too many exceptions to the rule
- Public groundswells
- Linda Chavez's unhinged "patriotism"
- A Card-Carrying Civil Libertarian
- Soft on crime
- How Hillary's Think Tank Went for Obama
- The Obamanauts
- The Coming Financial Pandemic
- McCain and 'the Bad Guys'
- Imagine Vladmir Putin...
- Lawrence Lessig for Congress
- Foreclosures Available
- Conversations on a train
- Fair-minded words
- "Openly opposing torture"
- A collective failure
- The New York Times Endorses Hillary Clinton
- A Ship In Need of Repairs
- Only If We Become a Great People
- Be honest.
- Against deep odds and great cynicism I will ask you to believe...
- To be partisan
- Edwards v. Obama: The closing arguments
- Two articles to mull over
- Tim Meadows explains why pot is bad for you
- Our Lady of the Law
- Does winning the Supreme Court galvanize social movements?
- The Disengagement with Power
- lib•er•tar•ian: Two roads diverged in a wood...
- A Defense of Compromise and the American Experiment
- Awesome.
- Eschewing politics
- The meaning of is is
- Dead Certain
- Pictures that make you think...
- What Rights Should We Give Terrorists?
- Yet Another Reason Agricultural Subsidies Hurt Us
- "Never get busted..."
- David Brooks gets it right for once...
- McCain's Health Care Plan
- The Choice