By CHARLES M. BLOW – New York Times
Mitt Romney is losing badly. And he has only himself to blame.
Not only is he trailing President Obama in almost every national poll, he’s trailing in almost every poll of swing … Read more »
By Jill Filipovic, Guardian UK
Todd Akin’s gaffes over ‘legitimate rape’ and ‘ladylike’ are not accidental: they encapsulate Republican attitudes to women
Todd Akin has issues with women. And so does his Republican party.
Akin, of “legitimate rape” fame, is … Read more »
By Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone
If you want to understand Romney’s game plan, just look at what Republicans have been doing in Congress
It was tempting to dismiss Mitt Romney’s hard-right turn during the GOP primaries as calculated pandering. In … Read more »
By KURT EICHENWALD – New York Times.
IT was perhaps the most famous presidential briefing in history.
On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and his terrorist … Read more »
By GAIL COLLINS
Mitt Romney broke our deal.
Perhaps he didn’t know he’d made it, although, really, I thought it was pretty clear.
He could do anything he wanted during this campaign as long as he sent out signals that … Read more »
Alan Grayson, Reader Supported News
12 September 12
Reader Supported News | Perpsective
In all of the speeches that I heard in Charlotte last week, I didn’t hear anyone praise President Obama for what might be his greatest accomplishment – … Read more »
By Joe Coscarelli, New York Magazine
Eleven years to the day after September 11 and more than seven years after the release of the government’s 9/11 Commission Report, newly public intelligence documents reveal just how much the George W. Bush … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Does anyone remember the American Jobs Act? A year ago President Obama proposed boosting the economy with a combination of tax cuts and spending increases, aimed in particular at sustaining state and local government employment. Independent analysts … Read more »
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/mckibben_summer_of_weather_extremes_signifies_new_climate_normal/2568/… Read more »
By David Suzuki.
Arctic sea ice has already melted to a record low this year, in thickness and extent. And summer’s not over yet. According to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, record melt has occurred for the … Read more »
