by Sara Robinson | Jul 9, 2010 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
What we need is a new Progressive Dictionary. This dawned on me last week when I spent 1,500 words trying to explain that, no, the word "bureaucrat" was not always a swear word that carries dark connotations of suspect parentage; and that yes, once upon a time, we...
by Sara Robinson | Jan 28, 2010 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
As long as we're taking the measure of the country this week, let's look in on the far (and not so far) fringes of the right wing. What's up with them? And how worried should we be? For the past several months, I've been trying to get a bead on the actual numbers of...
by Sara Robinson | Jan 22, 2010 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
My little series on the turn of the decade (which started last week) was originally conceived as a two-parter: a look back to the past, and a look ahead to the future. That changed a bit this week, when the present rose up and made itself known in a very big way....
by Brian Dockstader | Sep 24, 2009 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
I have been restraining myself from writing a post about ACORN for some time now. It isn't that I haven't had plenty of thoughts about the faux scandal and the right-wing-media-led poo storm and subsequent political lynching that followed; I simply felt that there...
by Sara Robinson | Aug 6, 2009 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
All through the dark years of the Bush Administration, progressives watched in horror as Constitutional protections vanished, nativist rhetoric ratcheted up, hate speech turned into intimidation and violence, and the president of the United States seized for himself...
by Sara Robinson | May 28, 2009 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
One of the things I'm really liking about the new regime is the way the stark, terrified silence of the Bush years is giving way to noisy, energetic public discussion of subjects that would have been considered hardcore political pornography just a year or two ago....
