by Dave Johnson | Jan 15, 2014 | Conservatism, Democracy
Republicans filibustered the extension of unemployment benefits on the Senate floor Tuesday. Why? Because they can get away with it. Look at how the press reported what happened. If the public doesn't know that filibusters are occurring, how can democracy hold...
by Roger Hickey | Jan 15, 2014 | Conservatism, Progressive Vision
I'm writing to ask you to join us in Raleigh, N.C., on February 8 to fight for justice. In 2012, right-wing Republicans took over the North Carolina state house and governor's mansion. They launched attacks on voting rights, education, the environment, health care and...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 15, 2014 | Conservatism
Today, about 35,000 of the 300,000 West Virginians left without water for five days, after a chemical leak contaminated the Elk River, can shower again. For the remaining folks in the nine counties affected by the chemical leak and the resulting ban on using tap...
by Digby | Jan 13, 2014 | Conservatism, Democracy
This piece by Arun Gupta gets to something important about our American "democracy": [T]hese days Americans have as much familiarity with democracy as they do with homesteading on the frontier. We like to imagine ourselves as pioneering statesmen, hewing a sturdy...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 9, 2014 | Conservatism
Some Republicans are claiming Chris Christie isn't really one of them. Some pundits are claiming, even as scandal erupts around him, that he's a "different kind of Republican." He's more, and less, than that: He is the archetypal Republican, the incarnation of its...
by Digby | Jan 9, 2014 | Conservatism
"Misfortune?" Really? I think of misfortune as getting cancer or losing your job. Getting caught for illegally using your power to punish innocent people is something else entirely. The Village is enjoying the spectacle today. But I'd guess he's not...
