Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.
From Timothy Noah
There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.
Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.
I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't.
I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.
Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say.
The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.
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