by Sara Robinson | Jun 4, 2008 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
It's over, at long last. The Democrats have a nominee. And now the other hard part begins—the part where Democrats try to patch up the party and try to keep a lot of disappointed Hillary Clinton supporters on board. It's worthwhile to take a moment here and look at...
by Sara Robinson | May 14, 2008 | Blog
One of the grandest -- and most frustrating -- things about carrying on the great democratic conversation via blog is finding out how many of your fellow citizens (including many who are nominally on your side) turn out to be looking at the world from a completely...
by Sara Robinson | May 10, 2008 | Blog
Progressives have always loved holidays, which may be why we've created so many of them. There are Saturdays, of course, brought to us with no small help from the early 20th century unions. And May Day. And Labor Day. And Mother's Day, which started out as the first...
by Sara Robinson | May 6, 2008 | Blog
I live in a nice place. I mean that literally. It took some getting used to. After 20 years in Silicon Valley, where people put a premium on being direct and to the point, have no time to waste on small talk or personal sharing, and will call a stupid idea stupid to...
by Sara Robinson | Apr 29, 2008 | Blog
Jeremiah Wright is everywhere this week -- and the media doesn't quite know what to make of it. Mostly, they're stuck so hard in the election horse-race narrative that they only question they can think to ask is: Does having Wright out there hurt Obama, or help him?...
