Advice Unasked

To D. Potter, over at Making Light , in response to George W. Bush's daughter Jenna Hager becoming a reporter on Today : The Satirists ...

The great liberal Senator, Edward Kennedy is dead. Kennedy was a tireless supporter of liberal causes. It's not clear why. He was rai...

I now have the Obama election feeling. We get to fight for the corporate health care bill because the alternative is so awful. Nothing has...

Do you know the story of how it is that LBJ broke Humphrey in the Senate? It is told in Caro's biography of Johnson. Johnson arranged a...

I think Whole Foods is a fine example of what is wrong with the libertarian theory of market regulation of business. They satisfy their cus...

A few days ago I asked a union candidate for the Seattle Port Commission, Max Vekich, what there was on the organized left for non-union peo...

Obama is the sharpest pol to come down the pike in a generation. He's been a Senator, so he knows what the Senate is like. He's fr...