Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

One reason I look forward to Monday is Mr. Pierce's (God save him!) roundup of the Sunday talk shows. What Are The Gobshites Saying The...

Jeffrey Toobin on Alito at the SOTU:  What makes Alito’s reaction even more delicious is that it’s further evidence that the Justice just ...

Michael Bérubé's fine parody of what passes for punditry these days is almost too subtle:  Scott Brown’s election this past Tuesday o...

Jon Stewart takes on Robertson and Limbaugh on Haiti. But he also zings Rachel Maddow. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / ...

REM was right: When we last checked in on the U.S. history textbooks standards setting process down in Texas, the conservative-dominated St...

Andrew Sullivan views Palin's Fox News contract with great alarm: This FNC/RNC merger is another threat to reasoned discourse in public...

Rachel Maddow's two segments on "straightening out the gays" therapy tonight are a must-see. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news...

One of Andrew Sullivan's readers on why women don't like Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin is the peppy cheerleader in high school all the bo...

Matt Taibbi on media groupthink and Sarah Palin . The press corps that is bashing her skull in right now is the same one that hyped that WMD...

Matt Taibbi has at Palin, too. Palin’s extraordinary ability to inspire major national controversies around these injustices done to her imm...

Frank Rich decodes Sarah Palin. Even by the standard of politicians, this is a woman with an outsized ego. Combine that with her performance...

Michael Lind on the Pledge of Allegiance. Could anything be more foreign to America's enlightened 18th-century liberal and republican tr...

Jeffrey Toobin on abortion and health care reform. The President is pro-choice, and he has signalled some misgivings about the Stupak amendm...

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Will Bunch on the media's failure to cover ... the media's failure . Jon Stewart and his outstanding team of "Daily Show" ...

A must-see: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c The 11/3 Project www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates on bigotry and gay marriage . Conservatives pride themselves on their skepticism, and generally dismiss liberals as soft-he...

Frank Rich on the special election in New York state . The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into...

Jacob Weisberg foresees an end to prohibition . Within 10 years, it seems a reasonable guess that Americans will travel freely to Cuba, that...