The financial services industry is a ward of the state.
From Timothy Noah
Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.
The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.
On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.
The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet.
Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery.
The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.
What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.
To argue that universal health care would wreck the U.S. lead in cancer survival, you'd have to argue that universal health care would wreck the entire U.S. economy.
The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.
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