Politics and its Discontents

None of us, of course, is free of prejudices, biases, and ideological/philosophical leanings. It is part of being human. But those of us w...

As I continue to ponder the question my friend Tom posed about why discredited economic theories are not vigorously opposed and exposed a...

I am pleased to present to you this second guest post by the Mound of Sound, a.k.a. The Disaffected Lib : When the "Greatest Democrac...

Since spring finally seems to be arriving in my place on the planet, it seems like a propitious time to take a day or two off from this bl...

The other day I wrote a brief post on the Koch brothers, accompanied by a video highlighting some of their very nefarious involvement in ...

Although this is just a brief clip , it does, I think, show why the 'right' prefers ideology and 'talking points' to empiric...

That's the title of an excellent article by the New York Times' Paul Krugman as he writes about the hysteria being elicited in the ...

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has some interesting insights on Wisconsin's attempts to strip the collective bargaining rights o...