by Terrance Heath | May 16, 2008 | Blog
We're in the process of trying out some new approaches to the Weekend Watchdog. One of them is this open thread, where we hope longtime "watchdogs" and the uninitiated will engage in sorting out what questions about which issues and news items from the past week this...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 15, 2008 | Blog
It is, as our co-director Robert Borosage pointed out this week, ludicrous on its face. House Republicans, coming out of their weekly caucus on Wednesday, started touting their latest slogan, "the change you deserve," and they are being virtually laughed out of the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 14, 2008 | Blog
It does not take much to understand why a hard-core Republican district in Mississippi would elect a Democrat to the House of Representatives by a nine-point margin. Mississippi is a state under particularly serious economic stress, a point brought home in a report...
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 Bill Scher | May 13, 2008 | Blog
Congress will likely pass legislation to temporarily stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is because 1) it's harmless legislation and 2) congresspeople can then say they "did something" on gas prices. But by Election Day it will be painfully clear they didn't...
by Bill Scher | May 13, 2008 | Blog
Last week, Democrats and Republicans offered energy bills in response to rising gas prices, which clearly laid out the parties contrasting energy visions: investment in renewable energy vs. suspension of environmental standards for drilling and refining oil. As I...
