Veteran journalist Timothy Noah is the winner of this year’s Sidney Hillman Prize for magazine journalism, recognizing his characteristically thoughtful and well-written series digging into the causes of rising income inequality in the United States. If you haven’t read it, Slate makes it easy to find today.
Concord, NH Former two-term New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is running for president. He’s not testing the waters or forming an exploratory committee. Thursday, on the steps to the New Hampshire State Building, he announced he’s running for the Republican nomination. In a 25-minute speech, Johnson spent nearly as much time acknowledging the obstacles to [...]
There has been much talk in recent weeks of how the likely U.N. General Assembly recognition of a Palestinian State in September is forcing the Israelis and the Americans, who oppose the recognition, to come up with preemptive peace plans. Today The New York Times fronts a narrower version of this story, focusing on the [...]
It was inevitable, of course, that the neoconservatives egging Obama into action in Libya would start sliming him when things got…complicated (as some of us predicted they would). So here’s Pete Wehner on the current situation:
Via the Center for Responsive Politics, here are the actors, agents and execs who’ve made the max gift of $30,400 to the Democratic Party in the last two years.
I guess it was only a matter of time, so best to just get this one out of the way:
In today’s WSJ Karl Rove writes with disdain about the way the Obama White House is framing the coming debt limit fight on its own terms–namely, that any debt increase needs to be “clean,” without GOP budget riders, and that gamesmanship around the vote could spook the markets and wreck the economy. Rove argues that [...]
I have been 50 years old for about ten weeks now, and already I have received five identical invitations to join AARP, the group formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons. This wasteful barrage would be enough to make me hate AARP, except for the fact that I started hating AARP 30 years [...]
Hillsborough, NH Rep. Charlie Bass knew he was in for a rough night. The first question out of the gate during his Wednesday town hall in Hillsborough, NH was about his vote for Paul Ryan’s budget. And the second. And the third and the fourth, fifth and sixth questions. “I enjoyed the discourse,” he said, almost [...]
The 2011 TIME 100, our list of influentials written by their peers, is out. It’s worth clicking around, but here are a few from our neck of the woods: President Obama on Gabby Giffords, Scott Walker on Paul Ryan, Oprah on Cory Booker, Mitch Daniels on Chris Christie, Rahm Emanuel on Joe Biden, Rush Limbaugh [...]
