by Sara Robinson | Apr 22, 2008 | Blog
One of the trickiest parts of dealing with the extremist right is figuring out whether a given group is just harmless garden-variety crazy -- or harboring the special kind of insanity that will lead to acts of local violence or outright domestic terror. it's a...
by Sara Robinson | Apr 16, 2008 | Blog
John McCain, who from the early 1980s worked hard to establish himself the one of the Senate's shining champions of Vietnam veterans' issues, completed his betrayal of the Iraq-era troops today. Brandon Friedman of vetvoice.com has the details: Yesterday VoteVets.org...
by Sara Robinson | Apr 9, 2008 | Blog
In last week's essay, I noted that our ability to function effectively as a nation has been deeply compromised by the conservative movement's reflexive reliance on Us-versus-Them politics. Allowing a winners-and-losers worldview to dominate our country is a dangerous...
by Sara Robinson | Apr 1, 2008 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
The old joke goes that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who think there are two kinds of people in the world, and those who don't. Funny thing is: it's not a joke. In fact, it turns out that this one oddly recursive fact can tell us a whole lot about...
by Sara Robinson | Mar 27, 2008 | Blog
Can we progressives -- who won't be caught dead these days calling ourselves liberals -- can we stop serving as a punching bag for the right? And speak with depth and conviction about the things that really matter to us? Once and for all, can we break through the...
