Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

Daniel Gross on the truth about the stimulus . To begin with, the stimulus was $787 billion, not $800 billion. (Those of you who think there...

John Cole , Brad at Sadly, No! , Steve Benen , David Neiwert , Eric Kleefeld and Firedoglake on the right-wing frenzy over Obama's Nob...

Matthew Yglesias on the decision of Nike and Apple to resign from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of its opposition to climate change ...

John Cole notes that Martin Peretz has called President Obama a "clinical narcissist" and Joe Klein knows why. Matt Taibbi on w...

Paul Krugman on Republican schadenfreude . How did one of our great political parties become so ruthless, so willing to embrace scorched-ear...

Mark Kleiman on Don't Ask/Don't Tell and why he thinks Obama has pursued a successful strategy to end it . Just as the Republicans n...

Jon Stewart on the Democrats' "supermajority." The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Democratic Super Majority...

Gene Lyons on the warmongering of Beltway pundits . TV news anchors gravely pronounce upon the "Iranian threat," as if a nation wh...

Steve Coll on the "ink spot" strategy in Afghanistan . To try to take and control the entire land mass of Afghanistan in the prese...

Paul Krugman on the lack of urgency on climate change . The larger reason we’re ignoring climate change is that Al Gore was right: This trut...

Frank Rich on Obama and Afghanistan (and Vietnam) . Though he came to the presidency declaring Afghanistan a “war of necessity,” circumstanc...

Paul Krugman on the next fight in Congress . The campaign against saving the planet rests mainly on lies. Thus, last week Glenn Beck — who s...

David Cay Johnston on the Republican tendency to favor property over people . Along the Gulf Coast, on the barrier islands on the Atlantic, ...

Jon Stewart on Obama's media blitz. (Don't miss the Peggy Noonan bit.) The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Five Ea...

Hunter on the argument that private companies can't compete with the government . First off, if health insurance companies ran the mail ...

Nate Silver on the odds of passing health care reform . It's one thing for some combination of the 59 Senate Democrats, plus Olympia Sno...

Frank Rich on the real danger posed by Glenn Beck . Beck is not, as many liberals assume, merely the latest incarnation of Rush Limbaugh. He...

Jamison Foser on Time's cover story about Glenn Beck . In its new issue, Time features a cover profile of the Fox demagogue, written...

Joe Conason on the ACORN controversy . To claim that the stupid behavior of a half-dozen employees should discredit a national group with of...

Ta-Nehisi Coates on how Obama is uncovering racism on the right . For black people, the clear benefit of Obama is that he is quietly exposin...