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Recent Blog Entries:

Something Rotten in the State of Texas: Michelle Goldberg on Governor Perry's Scandalous Conduct Concerning the Execution of an Apparently Innocent Man

More on the GOP as a Regional (Southern) Party: Kos Reports on Latest ABC/Washington Post Poll

Maybe It's a Blessing: Facing Evil Till We Get It Right

GOP vs. Effective Government: Thomas Frank in the Wall Street Journal on Why Republicans Are Blocking the Nomination of Patricia Smith

Dealing with Uncertainty, Part II: The Lessons from Medicine (in Groopman's HOW DOCTORS THINK)

The Banks are not All Right: Paul Krugman in the New York Times

Dealing with Uncertainty, Part I: The Lessons from Medicine (in Groopman's HOW DOCTORS THINK)

How Moody's Sold Ratings, Sold Out Investors: Report in McClatchy Newspapers

Getting to 'Yes' With Olympia Snowe: E. J. Dionne in the Washington Post

Baseball, Too, Should Use Instant Replay: Jesse Zwick in the New Republic

Why Is Blackmail Wrong? Lizzie Widdicombe Raises an Interesting Question in the New Yorker

McChrystal and Obama and the Problem of MacArthurism: David Greenberg on Slate.com

No Doubt Obama Deserves the Nobel! View from the French Philosopher, Bernard-Henri Levy

On the Practice of Primary-Care Medicine: Jerome Groopman from His Book HOW DOCTORS THINK

Going To Copenhagen Empty-Handed: Robert Reich Advises Obama on How to Handle Climate Change Legislation

U.S. Science Remains Far From Its Rightful Place: Interview of Rep. Rush Holt in Science News

The Politics of Spite: Paul Krugman in the New York Times

Graphics Question about NSB

The One-Party South: Historical Perspective from THE MIND OF THE SOUTH (by Cash)

The White House Treats Fox News as Partisan Foe: Ari Melber on Huffington Post

On the Credibility of Those Who Were So Often So Wrong Before on These Wars: Frank Rich in the New York Times

More on Obama and the Nobel Prize: James Fallows Praises Obama's Remarks, Jerome Doolittle's Prescient Expectation about GOP Talking Points

The Creation of the Right-Wing *Teaching Machine*: Henry A. Giroux Provides a Glimpse into the *Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy*

Post-Mortem on the Russian-Georgian War of 2008: Excellent Account by Ronald D. Asmus

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: What I Think of It

Red State vs. Blue State Moralities: Can You Help Gather this Information?

Saved from Despair: A Passage from THE AGE OF WONDER

To the Good People on the Right: This Is Not How You Deal With Disagreements in Your Own World, Is It?

Take Action: Tell Harry Reid to Fire a Shot Across the Bow of Any Dem Who'd Support a Health-Reform-Blocking Filibuster

Obama and the Dalai Lama: Michelle Goldberg in The American Prospect

*This is It!* Thoughts on Profundity and the Obvious from My Book, LIVING POSTHUMOUSLY

Relitigating Summers and Bank Nationalization: Noam Scheiber in the New Republic

Mission Re-Definition: Help Me Take This Viral

The Trauma of Inflation in Germany: Excerpts from Zweig's *The World of Yesterday*

No Rush to Escalate: E.J. Dionne on the Afghanistan Decision-Making

Coming Tomorrow: An Important Posting on *Mission Re-Definition*

Politics Normal or Abnormal: Challenge to the Guys at WSVA

Obama and China: Vandalism or Vision: Robert Borosage on Huffington Post

Irving Kristol saved the right from intellectual bankruptcy in the '60s. Who will save it now? Jacob Weisberg on Slate.com

A Couple of By-the-Way Questions I'd Appreciate Help On

The Age of Eco-Angst: Daniel Goleman in the New York Times

The True Cost of Fiscal Stimulus: Paul Krugman

Thanks to You Who Responded to My *Pitch*

Why Alcohol is Legal and Marijuana Is Not: A Hypothesis from *Reason and Vision*

Here's What Blindness Looks Like: A Journalist Doesn't See --at all-- the Most Important Story in America Since World War II

Should Obama Be Pitching to Get the Olympics? Discussion Question (I Vote No)

Europe's Descent into the Passions of War: Excerpts from Stefan Zweig's Portrayal of Europe in the Time of World War I

Slaves to Ideology? Challenge to the Conservatives on Health Care

Perks for *Seniors*: Are They Warranted? (A Discussion Question)

The Globalization of Censorship: Anne Applebaum Relates Three Cases of Western Institutions Abetting Other Countries' Censorship Desires

Could the Health-Care Solution be this Simple: Thom Hartman Puts Forward a *Modest Proposal*

Liberals Should Recognize the Significance of Half-Filling This Glass: Jonathan Chait Offers Perspective on Health Care Reform

CIA Torturers Running Scared: Ray McGovern on Consortium News

Schmookler on New Dimensions Radio: Hear It Here (Interview Broadcast in 2006)

Climate Change, the Next Arena for GOP Lies: Paul Krugman

Joe Biden's Switch from Hawk to Skeptic on Afghanistan: Michael Crowley in The New Republic

Obama Says Don't Run, NY Gov Patterson Says Yes I Will: What Obama's Trying to Do

The Good Family Man: The Conservatives Can't Have it Both Ways

Future Unknown: From *The World of Yesterday* By Stefan Zweig

CIA Directors Oppose the DOJ Investigation: Glenn Greenwald Dissects the Tawdry Meaning of this Opposition

First They Came for the Marlboros: Jacob Weisberg on the Proper Limits to the *Nanny State*

You Couldn't Parody this Right Wing Nonsense: *Suddenly, they're czar-struck," Dick Polman on the Latest Bizarro Pseudo-Issue

I Can Be Heard Tonight on Internet Radio

Shift Happens: Some of Obama's Droop Explained by the *Morale Curve* Says Layne Longfellow

The Pitch

What's Happening To Women's Happiness? Marcus Buckingham on Huffington Post

Baucus and the Threshold: Paul Krugman on Where Health Care Reform Might Go from Here

Using the Law for the Public Interest: Thoughts about Jerry Brown, Hero

How to Talk to Iran: Roger Cohen in the New York Times

Government Tends Toward Corruption, and Therefore? Why I Part Paths with the Libertarian Answer

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Brains and Cities Develop Similiarly

Dems Should Impose Anti-Filibuster Discipline: Ed Kilgore in the New Republic

High-Five Nation: David Brooks in the New York Times

More Fundamental than Race: My Critique of the Excellent Waldman Essay Posted Here Earlier

Stuff Some White People Don't Like: Paul Waldman in The American Prospect

Anger of Right-Wing Protesters Mis-Directed: Glenn Greenwald

Rooting for Rain

Two Issues from My Radio Show This Morning: I'd Appreciate Your Help

Science and the Discovery of the Un-Intimate Universe: A Passage from *The Age of Wonder*

Rescuing *Government Action* from the Paranoia of the Right: Roy Ulrich on Common Dreams

The Corrosive Effect of Berlusconi's Media Empire on Italian Democracy: An NPR Report from Sylvia Poggioli

THE PARABLE OF THE TRIBES After a Quarter Century: A Revision

Issues of Artificial Enhancements: Passages from an Essay by David Edmonds

Rich Passages from Paul Krugman's Recent Blog Entries

Income Inequality Is At An All-Time High in U.S.: Report on a Study by Professor Emmanuel Saez

Creative Grokking and the Sacred

A Culture of Cruelty: Henry A. Giroux in Truthout

What I Liked in Obama's Talk Tonight

A Trigger-- With Teeth? Nate Silver Offers a Creative Way to Gain Strength through Compromise

The Conning of the Average White Southerner: A Venerable Tradition

Why the President Has Been Losing on Health Care, and What He Needs to Say: Drew Westen on Huffington Post

The Most Important Political Event This Week is NOT Obama's Health Care Speech: E.J. Dionne in The New Republic

Rising Craziness in America: I. Obama Has to Address It (Revisited)

Suffering and Pain, Solace and Joy: How Are You Doing?

Liberty and Tyranny Battle Over the Internet: Eli Lake in The New Republic

Cheney Manipulates Media, Media Enable Cheney: Dan Froomkin on Huffington Post

The Media's Role in (Dis)Connecting People with Reality: *The Pity of It All* on the Lead-Up to World War I

Financial Regulation, Moral Hazard, and the End of *Too Big to Fail*: David A. Moss in Harvard Magazine

Republicans Disappointed In Holder's Decision To Enforce Civil Rights Laws: Adam Serwer in The American Prospect

This Morning's Technical Problem Has Been Fixed

Why Health Insurance Reform Will Pass This Fall: Robert Creamer on Huffington Post

How to Do Health Care Reform in the Face of Public Mistrust of Government: William Galston in the New Republic

A Paradox in Public Views of Health Care: Excellent Piece by Nicholas Kristof in the NYTimes

We're about to Learn Something Important about Obama

All-Star Pithy Comments from Krugman's Blog

Nate Silver's Illuminating Musings on Health-Care Reform Strategy

Is Afghanistan Indeed a *Necessary War*?

New Windows on the Human Journey

How Important is this Currently-Measured *Public Opinion* Anyway?

Seventh Piece: Holding the Bushites Accountable

Majority Rule on Health Care Reform: Clear Analysis from a New York Times Editorial

Will Teddy Speak One More Time from the Grave?

What's Wrong With American Medicine? Andrew Weil on Huffington Post

Facing Suffering: Another Passage from THE WISE HEART

What Harry Truman Tried to Do About Health Care in November, 1945

Sixth Piece: Wielding the Sword on Behalf of the Moral and Spiritual Force

About Changing the Law to Fill Kennedy's Seat Right Away

Fifth Piece: Fighting Back

You Can't Correct Misinformation: Counter-Intuitive Advice for Obama on the *Death Panel* Rumors

Fourth Piece: Are You Being Guided, Mr. President, by the Wrong Advisor?

Liberals Should Rally Behind Whatever Health Care Bill They Can Get: Michael Tomasky in the Guardian (UK)

Third Piece: How to Put the Force Behind Health-Care Reform

All the President’s Zombies: Krugman on Some Disproven Notions that Won't Die

Second Piece: Re-Connect with the Force from Whence Came Your Power, Mr. President

First Piece: Why It's Clear, Mr. President, You've Made an Important Strategic Error

A Story of Mindfulness: Another Tale from THE WISE HEART

Watch This Space: Something's Coming

The Health Implications of Optimism/Pessimism: A Research Report from WebMD

Obama’s Trust Problem: Krugman in the NTY, and ABS Commentary

Is Paul Starr Right that It's Necessary, and Worthwhile, to Sacrifice the Public Option?

Another Study in Intolerance and Oppression: The Persecution of Iran's Bahais (A Talk by an Iranian Scholar, an Essay by Me)

Baker Slams Press Again

Never Trust Those Liars Again: Another Challenge to My Radio Show Audience

Obama's Dreams From His Mother: Michael R. Dove in the New York Times

Why U.S. Diplomacy Will Fail With Iran: Edward Luttwak in the WSJ, and an ABS Critique

Crazy as a Preexisting Condition in America: Rick Perlstein in the Washington Post

*Us Against Them* Thinking: More Passages from *The Pity of it All*

Life After the Death of the Public Option: Nate Silver on the State of Play with Health Care Reform

Politically Transmitted Disease: George Monbiot on Right-Wing Denial and Rising Teen Pregnancy and STD Rates

Collisions with the Blind: Another Passage from *The Wise Heart*

There's More to Health than Health Care: Report by Carrie Peyton Dahlberg

Other Countries, Same Pattern of Hate Speech Driving Violent Action

It Takes All Kinds: The Idea of Moral Ecology

Announcement: Between Now and Friday Evening...

Bi-Partisanship? Why Does this Idea Persist?

Health Care's Public Perception Malady: Paul Waldman on The American Prospect

Optimism as a Spiritual Condition

Properly Calibrated Response Re North Korea: News Report Plus ABS Commentary

The Enthusiasm Gap: Jonathan Cohn on Why Liberals Should Push Hard Even for *the Current Lackluster Health Care Legislation*

History and the Question of Inevitability: Passages from *The Pity of It All*

Abandon the Rope-a-Dope, Obama

Media Complicity in Whopper Lies about Health Care Reform: Dean Baker

The Ascent of George Washington: A Sobering Assessment of Our First President

Will Obama be brought low by the same forces that irreparably damaged Clinton and Carter?: John B. Judis in The New Republic

Worried About the Christians? An Exchange from OpedNews

The Remarkable Heinrich Heine: Some Intense Passages from *The Pity of It All*

Dear Mr. President: Satirical Letter from Daily Kos Objecting to Government Intrusion into Healthcare

How Morality Enters into Game Theoretical Calculations: Revisiting the Defectors/Cooperators Dilemma

Isn't There Some Sort of Rule about the "Water's Edge"? Look What the Republicans are Saying in Jerusalem

The Reformer (Frederick Douglass) and the Politician (Abraham Lincoln): Sean Wilentz on the Failure of Much Liberal Thought to Understand the Different Roles

The Wise Heart: Two Little Stories from a New Book by Jack Kornfield

The Character of Barack Obama: A Critique from David Bromwich

About My Radio Show this Morning on *The Toxic Stench of Hateful Lies*

Is Pessimism Wisdom? An Exchange Between Father and Son

A Tip of the Hat to Hillary: Francisco Toro Salutes What U.S. Diplomacy Seems to Have Accomplished with the Honduran Crisis

The Toxic Stench of Hateful Lies

What the Dems Need to be Doing (and Have Largely Failed to Do) to Sell Health Care Reform: Nate Silver

Liberty as a Fundamental American Value, Not an *Un-Value*

How the Republicans Wounded Themselves Through the Sotomayor Hearings: Paul Waldman on The American Prospect

Schmookler and the Anarchists III: A (Semi-Famous) Exchange from the 1980s

Paul Krugman Refutes the *Anti-Speculation* Case Against Cap and Trade

The *What a Planet!* Experience

What I Hope Will Happen with the Peace Beer at the White House Today

Health, American-Style: Jacob Weisberg on Slate.com

Hear My Most Recent Radio Show Here: Judicial Activism Discussed

Retiring Senator Voinovich Unloads on His Regional Rump Party: Kos on DailyKos

Dean Baker Beats the Press Some More

The Spirit of the Christians? Another Possible Radio Show

Nate Silver's Advice to the Blue Dog Dems on Health Care

The Possible Costs of Sotomayor's Conflict-Avoidant Confirmation Strategy: Dahlia Lithwick on Slate.com

Suffering in the Culture of the Shenandoah Valley: What is It About, and Why Does it Express Itself in this Form?

Schmookler and the Anarchists II: A (Semi-Famous) Exchange from the 1980s

In Other Words IV: Some Choice Untranslatable Terms from Other Languages

On Liberty at 150: Andrew Norton Reviews the Famous Book by John Stuart Mill

The Media's Role in Keeping Nonsense on Center Stage: A Report Re Lou Dobbs, an Exchange on Countdown

Unlike Truthout

The Psychiatrist Under the Table: Thoughts About Therapy from Ronald Pies

The Sotomayor Confirmation: Poll Numbers Give Reason to Think Obama's Strategy Has Benefits as Well as Costs

Schmookler and the Anarchists I: A (Semi-Famous) Exchange from the 1980s

Obama Speaking Tonight: And Here's a Note I Wrote Two Days Ago about Such a Speech

Seance on Wall Street: Dean Baker Derides the Wall Street *Seers* Who Purvey Pseudo-Analysis to Mask Their Policy Agendas

Rumors of the Demise of ObamaCare Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Nate Silver on FiveThirtyEight

The Traditional Meaning of *Marriage* and the Desire of Gays: An Exchange on NSB

Obama Starts Fighting Back: Is It Too Late?

Prelude to the Series, "Schmookler and the Anarchists"

The Primary Weapon: Jonathan Chait on How the Dems Could Better Keep Their Wayward *Centrists* in Line

Questions for the Attorney General: Michael Isikoff in Newsweek

Celebrating Cronkite While Ignoring What He Did: Glenn Greenwald and a Scathing Critique of the Contemporary News Media

The Evolution of Spite: Article in The New Scientist

HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? Report on Some Interesting Research

In Other Words III: Some Choice Untranslatable Terms from Other Languages

Judicial Activism on the Right: Some Choice and Pertinent Passages

Two-Parter on the Issue of a Second Stimulus: Dean Baker and Me

It Takes All Kinds: Game Theoretical Illumination of the Evolution of Intra-Species Diversity

Sotomayor Plays It Safe: Emily Brazelon on Slate.com

Briefing on the Show for Those Who Might Wish to Call In

Sarah Palin Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It: Frank Rich in the New York Times

House Overwhelmingly Rejects Obama Signing Statement: News Report from TheHill

News Flash! The Radio Show Changed Yet Again. Your Prep Help Requested.

A Lesson on Global Warming: New York Times Editorial

The *Select Few Who Get Things Done*: Moyers and Winship on the Corruption in Washington

My Revised Plan for this Thursday's Radio Show

The Misuse of the Biblical Story of Onan

Newsweek says HOLDER "LEANING TOWARDS" APPOINTING TORTURE PROSECUTOR: This Looks Like an Obama Dance I was Hoping For

The Future of American Health Insurance: It Works, says the CBO and Paul Krugman

Should A News Organization Take Sides Between Truth and Falsehood When It is Also Between One Major Political Party and the Other?: On NPR's Avoidance of the Use of the Word *Torture*

Do Presidents Really Need the Intelligence Community to Be Happy With Them?

"You Have Only the Future to Win": Speech by David Davis (in the UK) on the Defense of Liberty

Tired of Talking about Obama: His Approach Does not Inspire Me Enough

An Army Untapped: Harold Meyerson Decries the Failure of the Obama Gang to Utilize Its Latent Grassroots Force

In Search of Dignity: David Brooks in the New York Times

What in History Most Disturbs You? Discussion Question PLUS

In Other Words # 2: Some Choice Untranslatable Terms from Other Languages

Obama Needs to Do More to Protect Appalachia from Ruination by the Coal Companies: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in the Washington Post

How the Press Misstates the Economics: Some Good Items from Dean Baker's *Beat the Press*

The Body and the Sacred, or, Mark Sanford's Dilemma and the Quest for the Good: III

The Fretting Over Health Care Reform: Paul Waldman in The American Prospect

A Funny Little Story from My Day

Dowd Skewers Palin

The Ways Placebos Work: From an Essay in SKEPTIC by Dr. Harriet Hall

What the Nixon tapes tell us about the Republican Party: Christopher Hitchens on Slate.com

How Do You Decide Whom to Marry? A Funny Compendium of Kids' Saying the Darnedest Things

Mark Sanford's Dilemma and the Quest for the Good: II

Critique of the Court's Ricci Decision: Drew Westen on The New Republic

Mark Sanford's Dilemma and the Quest for the Good: I

Betraying the Planet: Paul Krugman in the NYTimes

Who Killed the Men of England? An Illustration of How Science is Transforming the Study of Human History

Defectors and Cooperators: Illuminating Issues in America Today

In Other Words # 1: Some Choice Untranslatable Terms from Other Languages

Obama's Cairo Speech and the Changes in the Middle East: Gershom Gorenberg in The American Prospect

Sanford Should Apologize for How He Judged Others' Morals: Cenk Uygur on Huffington Post

What Obama Must Do to Save Universal Health Care: Robert Reich on The Arena

The Politics of Revulsion: Research Findings Regarding Disgust and Political Orientation

Stranger in a Familiar Land: The Introduction to My Book, *The Illusion of Choice*

The Sexual Scandals of Our Politicians: What's Worth Saying?

Court Declares Illegal the Strip-Search of 13 Year-Old

The Anti-Gay-Marriage Non-Argument: Jonathan Chait in the New Republic

Hoping for Audacity: Drew Westen Questioning Obama's Strategy

Hate Speech Right and Left? A Reader Thinks He Sees a Double Standard

A Brief Report on Yesterday's Radio Show

To The Mattresses: E.J. Dionne on Why Business Leaders Should Scare Obama More than the Republican Party

The Sonia Sotomayor You Don't Know: Jeffrey Rosen in the New Republic

Worst. Damage Control. Ever. Nate Silver on the Question of Election Fraud in Iran

House Revives Some Health Care Hopes the Senate's Been Killing: Ryan Grim on Huffington Post

Tuesday's Radio Show: Official Notification of Topic, Time, Phone Numbers, Customs and Manners

An Appalling Ruling from the Supreme Court: NYTimes Editorial

Discussion of the Iranian Situation: Daniel W. Dresner on ForeignPolicy.com

What Does it Mean Not to be Hoping for these Iranian Protestors?

What To Make Of The Russian Media’s Reaction To Iran? Julia Ioffe in The New Republic

Obama and Iran's Elections: An Interpretation (By Me)

As Ye Sow: Some Lessons from *Prisoner's Dilemma* Research

Health Insurance Plan Is Great Politics for Democrats: Robert Creamer on Huffington Post

America’s Sea of Red Ink Was Years in the Making: David Leonhardt in the New York Times

Good News A Propos the Radio Show

Say No to Censorship: Washington Post Editorial Against Chinese Restrictions on the Internet

Whither the Iranian Protests? Maya Schenwar on Truthout

GOP Activist Calls Gorilla One of Michelle's 'Ancestors': Meteor Blades on Daily Kos

Keeping Them Honest: Paul Krugman on Health Care Reform and the Insurance Industry

Conservatives Might Learn Some Things From Liberals: Possible Opening Statement for Virginia Radio Show

Stealing the Iranian Election: Juan Cole on Truthout

Do we need a technological breakthrough to avert the climate crisis?: Bradford Plumer in the New Republic

A Father's Mortification at Growing Old

GOP Smear Campaign vs. Sotomeyer Fails: Greg Dworkin on the Arena

Death at the Holocaust Museum and the Degradation of the American Dialogue: Michael Rowe on Huffington Post

Iran Awakens Yet Again: Roger Cohen in the New York Times

A Unified Theory of Obama: Jonathan Chait in the New Republic

How to Deal with the Pathological Spirit on the Right?: Sharing My Dilemma

The Importance of How We Leave Iraq: Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek

Obama to Forge a Greater Role on Health Care

What's Going to Become of the Republican Party? A Discussion Question

How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option, And What Obama and the Rest of Us Must Do: Robert Reich

Animals Possess a Sense of Morality: Science Report in Telegraph (UK)

Cooperation and Conflict in Obama's Cairo Speech: Aaron Zelinsky in the Huffington Post

YOU ARE BRILLIANT AND THE EARTH IS HIRING: Paul Hawken to Some College Grads

The Media Attend to the Right and Ignore the Left: E.J. Dionne on How the Debate Gets Skewed

"Memento Mori": Some Wonderings About Death

Testing Our Beliefs: An Informative, Entertaining Video (A TED Talk)

Empathy? It's Just a Question of *With Whom?* Adam Serwer in The American Prospect

Revisiting "Revisiting the 'Muddle Through Scenario'"

The Roots of Today's Financial Crisis Lie in the Reagan Years: Paul Krugman in the NYTimes

The Great Deflector: How Obama Stays Out of the Fray (Cottle at TNR)

Who Is to Blame for the Next Attack? Frank Rich in the New York Times

A Possible Logjam-Breaking Move for Obama to Make on the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

Petraeus and the Bushites: BarbinMD on Daily Kos on How Petraeus' Recent Statements Challenge the Bushites

High Expectations for Obama's Speech in Egypt: James Zogby on Huffington Post

Obama's Center-Left Two-Step: E.J. Dionne's Interpretation of Obama's Political Strategy

How the Internet Helped a Canadian Mag Beat Canada's Human Rights Censors

Wondering About the Banking Crisis

Notes Toward a Theory of Obama: Jacob Weisberg on Slate.com

Statistical Proof that Democrats Hate Freedom: Funny and Incisive Report on Daily Kos

Blessed by Obviousness: My Response to a Comment on Opednews

How Colin Powell Got Snookered at CIA: Ray McGovern on Common Dreams

Overcoming Distributional Objections to Greater Reliance on Market Pricing: Robert Frank on FiveThirtyEight

Time is Not Running Out on the Prosecution of Torture Crimes: Elizabeth de la Vega on Truthout.org

Troubling Commentary on North Korea's Troubling Nukes: Bill Powell in Time Magazine

Schmookler is Available for Conversation

Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Letting His Foes Be the Focus of Ugliness

The GOP’s Paranoid Foreign Policy: Michael Freedman in Newsweek

Is Cheney Hurting/Helping? Question from Me, Article from Lincoln Mitchell

My Hunch about a Credit Card Reform Matter

Cheney Lost to Bush: David Brooks in the NYTimes

Advice from *America's Worst Mom*: Lenore Skenazy in The Week

The Problems in Obama's Speech: More Stategic Subtlety or Outright Hypocrisy?

Signs of the Times in Russia: A Dramatic Example of the Long-term Battle of Patterns in a Society

Politics and the Passage of Credit Card Reform: Ryan Grim on Huffington Post

Senate Democrats, the Closing of Guantanamo, and the Obama Strategy: A Tentative Hypothesis

Imagine You're Talking to People Who Think FOX is a Legitimate News Source

The Happiest People in the World are Heavily Taxed: Thomas Kostigen on Marketwatch

The Politics of Excusing Torture in the Name of National Security: John Dean on Findlaw.com

The Character of Dick Cheney: Andrew Sullivan in The Atlantic

What Obama Wants in the Next Justice: Geoffrey R. Stone on Huffington Post

Torture Defensible? How about Homicide? Mcjoan on Daily Kos

Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Correlation of Forces

Introducing HuffPost*s Weekly Recap of the Sunday Talk Shows

Interesting Reflections on People and Happiness: A Passage from an Atlantic Monthly Article

The GOP's Misguided Campaign Against Judicial Empathy: Dahlia Lithwick in Slate.com

Problems of Tolerance and National Coherence in Contemporary Europe: Christopher Caldwell in the Prospect (U.K.)

Shifts in Washington's Tectonic Plates of Power: Ronald Brownstein on Obama Bringing Business Interests Over to His Side on Two Major Issues

Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: A Missed Opportunity?

The Decline of The Conservative Intellectual: Nate Silver on FiveThirtyEight.com

Calling Club for Growth: Kos Hopes the Suicidal GOP Will Knock Off Krist in the Primaries

Obama, The Torture Pictures, and this Dick Cheney Moment: A Speculation

Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Premise

Debt is Not So Cool: How the Recession May be Changing the Attitudes of the Young

Ronald Reagan's Position on Torture Now Labeled "Hard Left": Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com

Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Overview

Upcoming Battle on Souther's Replacement: William Rivers Pitt in Truthout.org

Obama Delivers the Zingers at Journalists' Dinner: Washington Post Report

Bonkers in Georgia: Hendrik Hertzberg on More of the Rising Craziness on the Right

A Great Party Needs to Have Give: Peggy Noonan on the Problems of Today's Republican Party

Archiving NSB Writings: Anyone Out there Willing to Help?

"Torture May be Necessary in the Future": David Waldman on Why Going After Bushite Torture is not Just "Looking Backward"

New Morsels from Dean Baker

How Obama Sees the Court (According to Those Who Know Him): NYTimes Article

DOJ Report Reaches "Damning" Conclusions for Bybee and Yoo: Jason Leopold on Truthout.org

Book review of Dave Neiwert's "The Eliminationists": By Susan G on Daily Kos

What Do Liberals Want on the Court? Josh Patashnik in The New Republic

Anti-Green Economics: Paul Krugman's Blog

America Becomes Desensitized to Torture: Dahlia Lithwick on Slate.com

Arlen Specter Needs to Earn His Spot in the Democratic Party: Editorial in The New Republic

How the Republicans Re-Write the History of the New Deal: Jonathan Chait in the New Republic

Christopher Buckley on Losing His Parents

Craziness in America: II. The Same Dark Spirit at Work

Reconciliation as Game-Changer on Health Care Reform: Jonathan Cohn in the New Republic

Bailouts Have Cost Less than You Think: David Weidner in the Wall Street Journal

Obama Gets Higher Grade at 100 Days than His Followers: Robert Borosage on Huffington Post

Crawling Out from Under the Rocks: Thoughts on the Ongoing Exposure of Bushite Crimes

How the Media Cover the Torture Controversy: Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com

What Obama Can Do on Energy on His Own: Becker and Gerstenzang in the New York Times

Juicy Morsels from Dean Baker: Cases of Misreporting of Economic News from Major Media

Why Do Conservatives Like Stephen Colbert? Lee Drutman Article Followed by Schmookler Commentary

Larry Summers is Not the Guy to Lead Us Beyond the Money Culture: Frank Rich in the New York Times

Reclaiming America's Soul: Krugman Argues for Prosecution of Bushite Crimes

Why It's Necessary to Fast-Track Universal Health Care: Robert Reich

Obama and Transparency: Thoughts about Lions and Foxes

Of Black Holes and Radio Silence: Elizabeth de la Vega on Why the Appointment of a Special Prosecutor Should Wait

Handshake Diplomacy: Fred Kaplan on Obama's Approach to Foreign Policy

What to Think about 9/11?

Obama's Loyal Opposition: Robert Kuttner in Huffington Post

Threats of Secession and Other Recent Republican Rhetoric: Lincoln Mitchell in the Huffington Post

Withering shoots? Mark Hulbert on How Underfunded Corporate Pensions Could be a Major Drag on the Market

Rising Craziness in America: I. Obama Has to Address It

While Obama Gains in Public Opinion, the Democrats Lose Ground: Drew Westen says Something Should Be Done about It

The State of the Post-Bushite Republican World: Sam Gruen and David Spangler Offer Good Thoughts

The Torturers’ Manifesto: NY Times Calls on Congress to Impeach Federal Judge Who Wrote the Torture Memos

The Texas Governor Strikes the "Secession" Note: Gail Collins in the New York Times

Why a God with Such Dubious Character? Thoughts from Jack Miles, Jerome Segal and Me

Red and Blue Economies? Nate Silver on Partisan Distortions of Perceptions

Interpreting the Biblical Narrative of God's Relationship with the Early Israelites: Second Installment of the Exchange with Author Jerome Segal

How Minnesotans Feel about Resolving Their Senate Race: DemFromCT on Daily Kos

You've Really Got to See and Hear This: Something Irrelevant but So Inspiring

Taxing Matters: Robert Borosage on How Tax Policy and Income Redistribution Have been the Opposite of What the Republicans and Their Tea Parties Claim

Judge Posner Wrote What? Eliot Spitzer on a Sign the Times Might be Right for Overhauling the System of Executive Compensation

The Bushite Policies of Obama’s Department of Justice: IV-Justified?

Republican Histrionics on Obama's Recent Trip: Terence Samuel on How They're Making Themselves Irrelevant

The Bushite Policies of Obama's Department of Justice: III. Protest!

Playing on People's Fears: Please Help Me Flesh Out this Indictment

The Bushite Policies of Obama's Department of Justice: II-Illustrated

The Bushite Policies of Obama's Department of Justice: A Series with a Surprise

From "Bad Experiences" to an Ecology of the Soul: An Essay by Me

Post-Consumer Prosperity: Robert H. Frank in The American Prospect

Is the GOP Cynical or Naive? Christopher Orr in the New Republic

The Geithner-Summers Plan Can Be Gamed: Jeffrey Sacks (and a Comment from Paul Krugman)

The Pick-Your-Poison Paradox: Nate Silver on FiveThirtyEight

The Next Two or Three Days

Understanding Systems vs. How the Human Mind Seems Wired to Think

Two New Takes on Obama and the Banks: From what's Visible, Stiglitz Sees Capitulation, From the GM-CEO Firing, Delamaide Infers Something Bolder

Interpreting the Biblical Narrative of God's Relationship with the Early Israelites: An Exchange with Author Jerome Segal

The Hat

Why Obama Has (Largely) Stopped Reaching Out for Bi-Partisanship: John Dickerson on Slate.com

Afghan President Orders Review of Marital Law: Pressure from the World's Response to the Idea that Husbands May Rape Their Wives

The Quiet Coup: Simon Johnson in The Atlantic Monthly on How the Financial Industry Came to Have Preponderant Power in the American System

Your Help Wanted: Seeking Examples of Dishonest Republican Arguments

Obama as Peacemaker: A Tale (That Makes Me Feel Good) from the G-20

Will the Recession Bring a Collapse of U.S. Power? Au Contraire, Says Walter Russell Meade

Jim Webb's Courageous Call for Major Changes in Our Justice System: Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com

In Praise (Mostly) of the Obama Auto Plan: From John Paul MacDuffie, a Business School Professor

Being Right Has Little to Do with Pundits' Success: Paul Farrell on Marketwatch

No Return To Normal: James K. Galbraith on Why this Economic Crisis Changes Things

A Truth Deficit: E.J. Dionne on Why the Conversation over our Financial Future is so Poisoned

Different Spiritual Paths, Different Contributions

This Time, Geithner’s Plan for Banks Makes Sense: Jim Nocera in the New York Times

Why We Need a Commission on Presidential Power: Bruce Ackerman in the American Prospect

The Right Way to Fix Wall Street's Pay: Some Smart Analysis from Nate Silver

Behold, humble Deutschland: David Marsh on Why Germany Isn't Gloating Over its Relative Prosperity

Shall We Get Rid of the Lawyers? Anthony Lewis Review Article in the NYRB

More Dimension I'm Seeing in the Obama/Wall Street Approach: Obama's Way is Non-Confrontational, and What's Determinative is the Politics

Two Sides of an A.I.G. Bonus Story: From the Receiver of a Bonus, and From a Critic of Him

Is There an Antidote to the Republican Amnesia? Rep. Barney Frank on the Political Fingerprints on our Financial Crisis

What The Ozone Scare Can--And Can't--Teach Us: Bradford Plumer in the New Republic

If Obama Did Take on Wall Street, How Tough/Winnable a Battle Would it Be?

Memory: A Fascinating Passage about the Role of Memory in Some Biblical Stories

Two Questions: What Does it Mean to Support Obama? and What if Obama's Banking Policy is Right?

Obama's Missing the Opportunity the Banking Crisis Presents

Some Truths About Guantanamo Bay: Lawrence Wilkerson Sheds Light on the Darkness

Does Krugman Have the Ear of the President? If Not, Here's What He Could Do

The Joy of Artistry

Can Anyone Reassure Me? Is there Any First-Rate Economist Who Agrees With the Geithner Approach?

Revenge of the Glut: Paul Krugman Helps Illuminate the Economic Crisis

Some Reflections on Obama's Promise: An Exchange Between Jim Oberg and John Hofer

Public Anger and the Challenge to Obama: Two Pieces, E.J. Dionne and Thomas Friedman

Ongoing Thoughts and Open Forum --March 19

Does Obama Have the Right Economic Team: Two Pieces that Feed My Doubts

Problematic Southern Culture: Cheap Labor from Slavery to Union-Busting

How Should We Think about the AIG-Bonus Affair? A Discussion Question

Banking Vouchers: Benjamin Barber with a Good Idea for Market-Loving Geithner

The Irish Troubles: A Moving and Hopeful Opinion Piece from an Irishman

Kepler and Brahe: A Little Piece of Science History

Today's Republican Party is a Central Part of our National Crisis

Obama's Challenge at the Upcoming G-20: Robert Borosage on the Need for Global Action on Economic Revival/Transformation

Stop Blaming the Market's Collapse on Obama: Jonathan Chait in the New Republic

What is the Value of Wealth?

Half-Way Through Obama's "First 100 Days": William Rivers Pitt Gives an Assessment

From Longfellow's Poem, "The Building of the Ship"

Nuclear-Armed China and India, with Tibet in Between: Dan Twining in Foreign Policy

Obama, Bush Secret-Keeper: Dahlia Lithwick Questions Obama's Position on Bushite Crimes

Ready to Rumble: Jed Lewison on Obama Taking on the GOP on Earmarks

Financial Glimmerings? A Couple of Brief Notices

The Media's Stupid/Corrupt Quest for "Balance": An Article from Daily Kos

Obama's Fine Memorandum Breaking with Bush on Signing Statements

The Tall People: Reflections on Humans and Trees

Why the Market Wants Banks Nationalized: John Verke on Seeking Alpha

Behind the Curve: Krugman's Continuing Worries about Obama Economic-Rescue Policies

A Fictious Exchange Between Obama and Emanuel on Their Beleaguered Banking Policy

Adulation-wise, Obama is to Progressives as Reagan was to Conservatives: Paul Waldman in The American Prospect

Ongoing Thoughts-- March 8

The Republicans' Limbaugh Problem, According to David Frum (Conservative Republican)

The Cynicism of the Commentariat?

The Internet: Foe of Democracy? An Analysis from Cass Sunstein

Obama and the Banks: Critiques from Kuttner and Krugman

Obama Should Proclaim His Liberal Vision, Says Leon Wieseltier (But I do not Concur)

Ongoing Thoughts-- March 5th

Virtue and Victory in Armed Struggle: An Exchange on Opednews

Pithy Insights from Dean Baker's Beat-the-Press Round-up

Two Pieces about the Limbaugh Albatross: Documentation of His Bigotries on DailyKos and Interpretation of the Obama Strategy on FiveThirtyEight

I Believe This is an Accurate Translation of the Bush DOJ *Legal Opinions* Released Yesterday

Why is Obama's DOJ Backing So Many Bad Bushite Policies: Glenn Greenwald Articulates What Worries Me Most about this New (and Otherwise So Impressive) Obama Presidency

The Santelli Screed Hits Wrong Target on Mortgage Bailout: Dean Baker on Truthout

Obama's "Centrism" is Protective Coloration: Part II, Some Applications

The Obama-ites Are (Wisely) Using Limbaugh as a Weapon Against the GOP

The Obama Code: Passages from George Lakoff

Frugality, Eternity and Clarity

The Many Deep and Diverse Sources of Obama's State-of-the-Union Rhetoric: Fascinating Textual Analysis by Aaron Zelinsky

Paul Krugman Has Me Worried about How Obama's Handling the Banks

Chris Matthews Has His Moments-- Watch the Brief Video

Problematic Southern Culture: The Lost Cause Movement

Obama's "Centrism" is Protective Coloration: Part I, the Thesis

There Is No Social Security Crisis: Paul Waldman on The American Prospect

Obama Redefines *Investment*: Jeffrey Feldman on Huffington Post

Obama and the Revival of Responsibility: Robert Creamer on Huffington Post

Obama's State of the Union Address: An Epitaph for the GOP-- Jacob Heilbrun in Huffington Post

The Filibuster Issue: An Argument from Ryan Grim and a Dismissal from Me

The GOP's Jihad on Obama: Robert Parry on Consortium News

Normal Times? Not Yet. Maybe Not in Sight.

The Seven Components of Liberalism: Alan Wolfe's Portrait Summarized by K. Anthony Appiah on Slate.com

Disagreeing With Paul Krugman: Stan Collender at capitalgainsandgames.com

What Are the Characteristics of an ENLIGHTENED Human Being?

It Looks Like *Zombie* Bank Nationalization is Coming: From Reading this Report from Ryan Grim at Huffington Post

THE LAND’S PRAYER: An Expression of Reverence for the Earth by Layne Longfellow

Ongoing Thoughts for February 20

The Republicans Foretell Their Opposition to Health Care Reform: Howard Dean on Huffington Post

Chinese turning to Tibetan Buddhism: A Case Study in the Complexity of the Relationship Between Power and Culture

Dean Baker Takes Two Swipes at the Washington Post

The Left Would Help Obama by Complaining More: John Judis in the New Republic

Pet Peeves and Pet Delights

George Will's Disingenous Global-Warming Denial: Two Critiques of a Recent Piece

Wondering: What Changes to the NSB Site in the Post-Bushite Era?

How to Speak Obama: Zadie Smith's Insights Reported by Jack Shafer

Republicans Propose Nationalizing the Banks: An Opportunity for Obama?

Obama's Stimulus Rope-a-Dope: Noam Scheiber in The New Republic

The Irrational Voter: Larry M. Bartels in the Wilson Quarterly

GOP, Like Rush, Sees Hope in Failed Stimulus: Meteor Blades on Daily Kos

Let the Zombie Banks Die: Ariana Huffington

Here's a Strong Condemnation of Geithner's Plan from Someone I Respect (Robert Kuttner in The American Prospect)

Obama Versus Petraeus? Gareth Porter on Inter Press Service

Plunder and Blunder: Progressive Economists Discuss the Crisis (Part II)

Problematic Southern Culture: Venerating Disastrous Leaders

Leahy: Investigate Bush Now

Krugman on Geithner's Ambiguous Bank Bailout Plan

National Security Team Delivers Grim Appraisal of Afghanistan War: News Article in the Washington Post

The Capitulation of the Mountain Man

The Myth about FDR's New Deal Failing: Charles McMillion

Ongoing Thoughts and Open Forum: February 9

Plunder and Blunder: Progressives Discuss the Crisis (Part I)

Ariana and Me on the Proper Beneficiaries of Bailout

Operation *Zero Cred*: Bob Cesca Calls for the Netroots to Rise Up to Help Obama on the Stimulus

Obama*s Growing Pains: Chuck Todd on Accomplishments and Errors in the Pursuit of the Stimulus

European Activists Call For Bush To Be Tried For Torture: Julio Godoy on Inter Press Service

Why I'm Not OK with this Dying Thing

We're on the Edge: Paul Krugman Exhorting Obama to Take the Offensive on the Stimulus

Should Obama Have Taken Fuller Ownership of the Stimulus Package? Nate Silver on FiveThirtyEight.com

Why Pay $36.09 for Rancid Chicken?: Stephen J. Dubner on Freakonomics.com

Obama Shores Up Ethics Credibility: NYTimes Editorial on the Daschle Withdrawal

The Big Sort Revisited: Shankar Vedantam in the Washington Post

A Hopeful View from Robert E. Lee

If You Jump Halfway Across a Chasm You Fall Into the Abyss: Ariana Huffington on Getting the Stimulus and the Bailout Right

More on the Dilemma Regarding Prosecuting the Bushites: From Some Exchanges I Had on Opednews

Post-Partisanship, R.I.P.: Robert Kuttner in The American Prospect

Interpretations of Obama: Paul Waldman in The American Prospect

Generals Seek To Reverse Obama*s Iraq Withdrawal Decision: Gareth Porter on Inter Press Service

Ongoing Thoughts and Open Forum: February 1

Another Great Man

What Life Asks of Us: A Piece Worth Discussing from David Brooks

The New Me: I Just Changed the Photo of Me on My Bio Page

Question on Stimulus and Politics: Was Obama Brilliant or Blundering?

How the Denunciation of the Bushite Regime Permeated Obama's Inaugural Address: Jonathan Raban in The Guardian

If I Could Now Ask Obama, Privately, One Question

The Debunking of Obama in Some Foreign Press: Anne Applebaum on Slate.com

MLK's *Black President* Prediction-- A Very Lucky Shot

A Return to Professionalism: Fred Kaplan on Obama's National Security Under-Secretary Appointments

Wanted: Good Calls to a Radio Show this Thursday Morning

Two Pieces on the Politics of the Stimulus Package: Dean Baker and Robert Kuttner on the Not-Post-Ideological Confrontation between Obama and the Republicans

Prosecuting Bushite Crimes: It's a Genuine Dilemma

Improving on the Bush Administration is Going to be Just Too Easy: FDA Scientists Complain to Obama about *Corruption"

Just Say "No" to the Credit Rating Agencies: Economist Gerald Epstein Critiques Their Role, Now and Before

What Will the Next Republican Coalition Look Like? Paul Waldman in The American Prospect

Speaking in Washington, D.C. on Sunday: All Are Welcome

Challenging Time in the Practice of Frugality

The Loyal Opposition: Joe Scarborough Manifests How Obama's Bridge-Building Is Working

Wall Street Voodoo: Krugman Fears Another Bank Bailout Where Taxpayers Will Get the Shaft

The top Bush executive orders that Obama should scrap immediately: Emliy Bazelon and Chris Wilson on Slate.com

Reverend Lowery's Benediction: The Transcript

How to Push Obama: John Nichols in The Progressive

FROM OPPOSING EVIL TO SUPPORTING THE GOOD

Bush's Central Defect, According to Historial Alan Brinkley

Ongoing Thoughts for January 18

What was with this McClelland Dude? Ruminations on a Civil War Matter

The Need for Truth --If Not Prosecution-- about the Bushite Wreckage: Frank Rich in the New York Times

What Will, What Should, Obama's Inaugural Address Be Like?

Sponsor an Executive: A Very Funny Video

Evil Leaders Destroy What They Claim To Love: An Essay by Me from More Than Three Years Ago

The Complicity of the Mainstream Media in the Bushite Iraq Fiasco: William Rivers Pitt in Truthout

Should Environmentalists Fear Cass Sunstein? Michael A. Livermore on Obama's New *Regulatory Czar*

Intellectual Dishonesty (Gasp!) from a Conservative Economist: Nate Silver Hits Another Good One

A Deepened Sense of the Tragedy of Lincoln's Assassination

Does Sec*y-Nominee Geithner Represent a Break from the Bushite Team?: Article from Wall Street Journal

Ehud Barak and the Gaza Conflict: A Glimpse into Israeli Politics

Ariana Proposes a Way for Us Americans to Join in this Presidency

Frugality as Adaptation

Shocked! G.W. Bush has Done Something Good

Two Views of Obama's Tax Cuts: Krugman and Scheiber

The Future of the Internet: A Review Article by Tim Wu

Radio Show in Virginia on Monday: What My Approach Will Be This Time

Best Nuggets from Dean Baker's *Beat the Press* This Week

Why Bananas are a Parable For Our Times: Johann Hari of the London Independent

Bigger Than Bush: Krugman's Brilliant Polemic Tying Bush's Failures All the Way Back to Nixon's Southern Strategy

A Couple of Poignant Little Stories from the Civil War: From Goodwin's TEAM OF RIVALS

Israel's Thinking May Provide Insight into Obama's: Lisa Gans on Huffington Post Plus a Comment from Me

Three Ideas of What To Do About Burris: From John S. Bohrer, Nate Silver, and Me

The Panetta Nomination Picks Up Steam: News article by Sam Stein and Ryan Grim on Huffington Post

Ongoing Thoughts

Obama's Justice Nominees Signal End of Bush Terror Tactics: News Report from McClatchy Newspapers

Deficit or Depression? Robert Kuttner on the Need for Stimulus

E.J. Dionne on *Why Senate Democrats need to reject Roland Burris*

The *Secret of Lincoln's Gifted Leadership*: A Passage from A TEAM OF RIVALS

Two Brief, Pungent Entries from Paul Krugman's Blog

What Book(s) Would You Recommend?

The Two-Sidedness of the Obama-Warren Gambit: Two Similar Takes-- Alan Wolfe and E.J. Dionne

On the Legalization — or Not — of Marijuana: Stephen J. Dubner in the New York Times

The Madoff Fraud and the Erosion of Trust in American Capitalism: Anne Applebaum in Slate.com

My Cat's Oft to be Found in the John Sweeny Spot: Opening for a Sharing of Private Language and Imagery

Why Lincoln Defeated His More Favored Rivals for the Republican Nomination for the Presidency: Another Passage from Goodwin's TEAM OF RIVALS

Nate Silver Thinks Through the Smart Republican Strategy on the Stimulus Bill

Why Gaza Matters: An Israeli's Analysis

The Return of the Princess: The Mythic Dimension of the Caroline Kennedy Story

*What are your hopes for the Obama Presidency?* I Commend to Your Attention This Radio Show I Did Yesterday in Ohio

Does it matter if Barack Obama doesn't call his policies progressive? Paul Waldman in The American Prospect

As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S. : Report from the Wall Street Journal