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Across the world, the consensus headline out of today's report (PDF File) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is: stopping global warming is feasible and affordable. The UK Times Online reports that "keeping the rise in temperatures to within 2C [two...

Ten white guys in dark suits and bright ties to answer questions. Three white guys in dark suits and bright ties to ask them. Stale ideas fit the staid image at the first Republican presidential debate last night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. MSNBC should...

Senators trying to drive down prescription drug costs failed to break a drug industry-backed conservative filibuster when the issue was empowering Medicare to negotiate. But yesterday, they successfully broke an attempted filibuster on allowing cheaper drugs to be...

While we were commemorating the Failure of Conservatism in DC yesterday, what was the blogosphere doing? D-Day saw conservative failure in the melamine scandal: "Conservatives care nothing about government, and yet they act surprised when the mechanisms of government...

The highlight of today's Failure of Conservatism Conference was the debate between the American Prospect's Robert Kuttner and the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol, over the question: "Can Conservatives Be Trusted To Govern?" You can watch the full debate below, thanks...

The perversity of conservative failure is that by rendering government incapable or unwilling of doing anything that serves the common good, conservatives have left fewer people willing to trust that government can serve the common good, even when they want it to....

Check out video of Campaign for America's Future Co-Director Robert Borosage, kicking off today's Failure of Conservatism Conference. "...corruption and incompetence aren't idiosyncratic to conservatives. They are, in some ways, an integral expression of the scorn...

There was a genteel smackdown between Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect and William Kristol of The Weekly Standard. But beneath the generally gentlemanly exchange between the two intellectual titans, there were some genuine jaw-droppers from Kristol, who showed...

Robert L. Borosage launched the Failure of Conservatism conference at the National Press Conference on Thursday with a broad indictment of the conservative movement and with a cautionary note for progressives: “Ideas have consequences.” Borosage, the co-director of...