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the very best of the benghazi hearing

Congressional hearings are partisan by nature. In the abstract,there's nothing inaccurate with...

lets talk about bubbles and james comey

I have frequently made the case that Donald Trump is president because of FBI director James Comey....

were live blogging the first democratic...

This was a very collegial debate. There were a few shots taken,but not many, and the few that were...

we are live blogging the gop presidential debate...

This debate was a zoo. The candidates started yelling for attention after every question like a cage...

my annual black friday post — this year with...

According to the retail industry,"Black Friday" is the day when retail profits for the year go from...

even in the hands of an expert, mockery is tough...

I sort of promised myself that I wasn't going to comment again on the whole mockery thing,but...

jerry brown should sign californias assisted...

Back in June,California Governor Jerry Brown called a special session of the legislature to deal...

my annual black friday post this year with...

According to the retail industry,"Black Friday" is the day when retail profits for the year go from...

james comey wasnt a partisan hack. he was worse.

By coincidence,right after my Comey post yesterday morning the New York Times published a long...

putin is wasting blood and treasure in syria. let...

Tom Friedman gets it upright on Syria: Today’s reigning cliché is that the wily fox,President...

we are programmed to receive

It's Saturday,and I am oh-so-tired of Donald Trump. (The latest: he finally coughed up his...

judge rules that boehner can sue obama — and...

A federal judge has ruled that John Boehner's lawsuit against Obamacare can proceed: U.S....

why did democrats lose the white south?

Modern conservatives are oddly fond of pointing out that it was Democrats who were the party of...

microsoft announced some stuff yesterday

Yesterday really highlighted the contrast between Apple PR and Microsoft PR. Last month,I started...

trump, carson duel for title of least prepared...

One of the highlights of final night was watching the outsiders talk approximately foreign policy....

the white house story on comey just gets worse and...

Comey Comey Comey Comey. Let's catch up. Why exactly did Donald Trump fire the guy,anyway?...

yes, donald trump agreed that we should have a...

I was arguing on Twitter with Mickey Kaus last night approximately the Trump Muslim registry...

ask dr. science: campaign trail edition

Presidential candidates have been asking a lot of questions lately. Science can help answer them,but...

lets take a look at how tough republicans would be...

Following the terrorist attacks in Paris,conservatives are eagerly taking the opportunity to accuse...

the most important free speech question is: who...

Like everyone,I've been watching as the free speech debate on college campuses has morphed from...

big recessions are good for right wing politics

I guess nowadays is David Dayen day. Over at the recent Republic,he points me to an bewitching...

i think its safe to say that the ahmed mohamed...

So are conservatives starting to cover the Ahmed Mohamed story? With a three-hour debate death march...

wtf, volkswagen?

On Friday I saw a bunch of headlines about Volkswagen facing possibly huge fines for violating EPA...

debate liveblogging: the second gop presidential...

collect comfortable,folks: you believe three hours of Republican debatifying ahead of you....

since donald trump brought it up, lets ask him...

Ezra Klein nowadays: I don't know whether Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination. But...

some notes toward a comprehensive plan for...

As we all know,Rosa Parks was not the first black woman in Montgomery to be arrested for refusing to...

why has conservative talk radio gone gaga over...

Roughly speaking,I deem the reason Donald Trump will eventually flame out is because people will get...

gun controls biggest problem: most people just...

David Atkins writes approximately the problem of getting gun control legislation passed: There is a...

social media or not, a primary is still a primary

I'm going to pick on my friend Ezra Klein today. He begins an essay approximately changes in...

ben carson seems to have a serious personal...

We all know that Ben Carson has some wacky ideas. We also know that he has some pretty strange views...

marijuana for millionaires

Yesterday a friend emailed to seek information from whether I had any thoughts approximately...

coming soon: quantum computing on your desktop pc?

nowadays has been pretty dull in the world of political news,so let's continue trawling other...

todays idiocy roundup

There's so much to memorize in the world. A couple of days ago,for example, the Department of...

are us airlines worse than european airlines? this...

A couple of days ago I wrote that we,the traveling public, have conclusively demonstrated that we...

capitalism and machines go together like peanut...

James Pethokoukis says that economist Deirdre McCloskey has written "the most powerful defense of...

trump plans to cram his entire legislative agenda...

Did Mack Sennett ever perform "The Keystone Cops move to Washington"? No? No matter. That's...

new york times updates its 2015 hillary clinton...

In July 2015 the modern York Times reported that the Justice Department had opened a "criminal...

conservatives need to admit that racism still...

I hopped over to The Corner to see what was going on,and the respond is....political correctness....

the shiny new sharing economy is sure starting to...

Brian Fung writes nowadays approximately Amazon's new package delivery scheme:...

trump tax plan unveiled!

final night I wrote that the Trump tax draw would be tiny more a than rewrite of his campaign...

its not just middle aged whites who are killing...

I'm not sure why Josh Marshall decided to write about the Case/Deaton mortality study...

marx and keynes put economics on the map, and they...

Over at PostEverything,Dan Drezner wonders why economics has managed to wield such an outsized...

republicans think the american dream is...

Today brings a new IOP poll of 18-29 year-olds. So what's on the minds of our nation's...

report: john boehner is the guy whos kept the...

Back when the Benghazi committee started up,Rep. Trey Gowdy swore that it was nothing more than an...

remember that shot fired a few months ago in the...

Does immigration depress wages? One of the seminal studies of this was done by David Card in 1990....

scott walker no longer understands his own base

A few days ago Scott Walker refused to reply a question approximately Syrian refugees because...

ted cruz is counting on republican voters to be...

One of the interesting things about the GOP primary race is that uber-conservative Ted Cruz is a bit...

let the mudslinging begin

Hugh Hewitt quotes President Obama nowadays: What I'm not interested in doing is posing or...

a closer look at 2016 obamacare enrollment

Warning: Lotsa numbers ahead. Sorry about that. If you're not interested,you can skip down to...

james comey wrap up: benghazi and the press were...

Many of you only read this blog on weekdays. That's OK. I understand that my random musings may...

we are live blogging the gop presidential debate...

OK,I'm up for this. Are you up for this? certain you are! Together, we can get through the full...

the dirges have begun for steve bannon

The blog has been heavily Trump-centric nowadays,but what can you conclude? When it rains, it pours....

ben carson and the tale of redemption

For those of you who may have missed it,the Wall Street Journal decided to check out another Ben...

id give obamas syria policy a b

"I don’t acquire a lot of beneficial things to say about the Obama administration’s Syria...

perhaps we should retire the idea that joe biden...

Back in August,Maureen Dowd wrote several hundred words about what a horrible person Hillary Clinton...

jeb bush has no clue about business regulation

Jeb Bush today in the Wall Street Journal: To understand what is wrong with the regulatory culture...

donald trump and the politics of resentment

As you surely know by now,the latest round of Republican campaign cretinism came a few days ago when...

the new york times has imported the ethics of the...

As you may know,the modern York Times hired Bret Stephens a couple of weeks ago as a modern...

ben carson apparently doesnt know what the debt...

Ladies and gentlemen,Dr. Ben Carson: Ryssdal: As you know, Treasury Secretary Lew has come out in...

ben carson supports the european court of human...

final week Ben Carson said,"I would not advocate that we set a Muslim in charge of this nation."...

let us now praise baby boomers. and berate them...

Over at the Washington Post,it's time for some intergenerational griping. Jim Tankersley kicks...

unroll.me is latest victim of two minutes hate

Have you heard of Unroll.me? I hadn't until they suddenly popped up in my Twitter feed because...

a review of reviews of the handmaids tale

Below are excerpts from a baker's dozen reviews of Hulu's new adaptation of The...

whos the most humble? we are!

People For the American Way emails to highlight something from last Friday's pre-Thanksgiving...

the press needs to fight back on republican tax...

Steve Benen on the Rubio-Lee tax plan: At first blush,it’s tempting to see Marco Rubio’s...

charts of the day: americans seem to be about as...

The new Case/Deaton paper approximately the rise in white deaths from suicide,alcohol, and drug...

school life is better if you can dump the...

constitution schools tend to suspend,expel, and force out more students than public schools. Is this...

if you accuse hillary clinton of lying, you should...

I was noodling around this afternoon and decided to check out Drudge. Hmmm. A picture of Obama with...

ben carson and the conservative grift machine

In the LA Times nowadays Joseph Tanfani and Maloy Moore have a great piece approximately the...

donald trump has lost between $1 and $6 billion...

This post is about Donald Trump—sorry!but the topic is something I've been a little curious...

chart of the day: intriguing new data on getting...

Over at Wonkblog,Roberto Ferdman passes along some fascinating novel research on the frustrating...

another shot fired in the great immigration vs....

Does illegal immigration suppress the wages of native-born workers? The evidence suggests that it...

republicans have a cunning new plan to deal with...

For some reason,I've been a whirlwind of blogging activity over the past week or two....

trump floats nonsense idea of privatizing airports...

Philip Howard attended Tuesday's infrastructure confab with President Trump. The Guardian...

the disgrace of lamar smith and the house science...

The Washington Post writes today approximately a long-running feud between die-hard climate-denier...

lapd adopts new policy: de escalate first, shoot...

This is from the LA Times yesterday: The Los Angeles Police Commission voted Tuesday to require...

no, marco rubio has not killed obamacare

From "Team Marco" on Twitter: Q: Did Marco Kill Obamacare? A: You bet he...

lets experiment with universal preschool

I'm a considerable fan of early childhood education. Megan McArdle says she's tentatively...

urban vs. rural recovery from the great recession:...

Thomas Edsall writes that as we recovered from the considerable Recession,big cities did pretty well...

its time for yet another safe act!

I'm currently at my local infusion middle getting my bones strengthened,but the miracle of...

silicon valley has a cold pressed juicing scandal

Behold the Juicero. It is sleek,internet-connected, built like a tank, or uses custom bags of...

president obama has a different job than president...

Dana Milbank was unimpressed by the contrast Barack Obama made yesterday during his press conference...

obamacare has now been mia in two debates

In the first Republican debate,Obamacare was barely mentioned. Over at National Review, Ian Tuttle...

yeah, the comey firing was all about russia

Politico has a big "inside" look at the Comey firing tonight,and it is bananas: [Trump] had grown...

a new study confirms what youve long suspected:...

Matt Yglesias says notice Zuckerberg could do the world a favor by deep-sixing Facebook: It makes...

ted cruz really hates climate change

Yesterday I dinged Ted Cruz for blathering about how he'd eliminate five cabinet departments....

theres no secret to ben carsons success

What accounts for Ben Carson's popularity? It's not really that tough,says Ed Kilgore:...

the iran deal highlights the crackup of the israel...

Jonathan Chait writes that AIPAC's failure to pause the Iran deal shows that "there is no more...

republicans are playing pre existing conditions...

The topic of the day is pre-existing conditions: namely the fact that the latest version of the...

it looks like were stuck with low inflation

Back in August I agreed with Brad DeLong that 4 percent inflation would be a suited thing right...

heres why arming the opposition usually doesnt...

I routinely mock the tiresomely predictable calls from conservative hawks to "arm the opposition."...

head witch hunter now wants fewer witch hunts

nowadays's Charles Krauthammer column cracks me up: Skip the investigations,win the election...

lets not rewrite history on gun violence

"This is something we should politicize," President Obama said final week after the gun massacre in...

tip o the day: dont be trapped by the tyranny of...

A couple of days ago I stumbled across a story approximately the weekly email that NBER sends out...

another republican health care bill?

Congress is in recess,but Robert Costa reports that Republicans are still hard at work on yet...

obamacare can help keep people off disability

Lydia DePillis tells us today approximately Paul Khouri,who has a scarce and expensive medical...

gun control makes a comeback

Twenty years ago,gun control all but disappeared as a Democratic issue. There were still a few...

new hillary clinton emails surface

Uh oh: The Obama administration has discovered a chain of emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton failed...

the competition for trains is mostly air travel

Atrios has a complaint approximately the way people talk approximately rail travel: One thing I find...

today in state secrets: the fbi wants both your...

Back in 2004,the FBI served Nicholas Merrill with a National Security Letter. Merrill owned Calyx...

senior citizens are going to hate ted cruzs tax...

Yesterday Sen. Ted Cruz introduced his tax plan. Let's let the Tax Foundation recount it: This...

a quick guide to interpreting everything you hear...

How much are health care premiums on the Obamacare exchanges set to rise in 2016? That depends. Here...

heres what its like to work at planned parenthood

final night,Bryn Greenwood, who worked for Planned Parenthood in the late 90s, or tweeted...

obamacares growing pains are about what youd...

Yesterday United Healthcare announced that they would be exiting the Obamacare exchanges after 2016....

yes, americans have become more ideologically...

Over at the Monkey Cage,political scientists Seth Hill and Chris Tausanovitch argue that despite...

water on mars is the new fake moon landing

I spend a depressing amount of time writing approximately crackpots these days. On the other hand,it...

it sure looks like hillary clinton didnt have a...

This happened yesterday while I was absent from my desk: The FBI has recovered personal and...

health care bill is dead, but continues to shamble...

The Republican health care bill can't pass but won't die: With two days left before an...

buy silver! (health insurance, that is)

In the fresh York Times nowadays,Robert Pear writes that Obamacare has a big problem: tall...

is ben carson a liar? or does he just not care?

Here is Ben Carson,wandering off topic when the Miami Herald asks him approximately abuses of our...

the gig economy is mostly just silicon valley hype

How stout is the "gig economy"? An Uber driver is the archetypal gig worker,but more generally it...

democrats are...maybe...possibly...thinking about...

Nick Confessore has a fascinating story in the New York Times today. He reports that Democrats are...

the ipad pro is lacking one thing if it wants to...

Apple has been playing catch-up for a while now. The large-screen iPhone 6 was catching up with...

the american egg board is tired of playing...

Here's something trivial and yet somehow sort of fascinating at the same time. The Guardian has...

trumpcare guts coverage even more than we thought

Here's the latest on TrumpCare:Pre-existing Conditions. Matt Fiedler of the Brookings...

gerrymandering is headed back to the supreme court

The unique York Times reports that gerrymandering is headed to the Supreme Court again: A bipartisan...

heres a look at the memes that climate denialists...

How does climate denial work? Who funds it? In the Proceedings of the National Academy of...

want a safer city? keep daylight savings time year...

Tonight we tender sadly adieu to daylight savings time. That means this is also the time of year for...

donald trump is really learning a lot at the white...

I'm just writing these down for posterity: Trump on health care: "I occupy to expose...

dont blame ted cruz for facebooks sins

A Guardian headline today blares: "Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting...

sorry, but ben carson just doesnt care about...

Who would ever have guessed that someday we'd have a serious presidential candidate who makes...

fabulous new blood test technology not quite as...

final year,when I was getting my blood drawn with dismaying frequency, I sung the praises of...

house dems fight back on benghazi

A few weeks ago,Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills testified before the Benghazi committee....

two questions about hillary clintons email server

Lots of people enjoy asked lots of questions approximately Hillary Clinton and her email server....

its really hard not to hate the pharmaceutical...

Another day,another drug. Today comes news of Nitropress, a generic blood pressure drug that was...

chart of the day: the surprisingly close...

The Economist notes a "bizarre" relationship today: For the final forty years the number of new...

a unified theory of conservative crankery isnt so...

Paul Krugman is musing approximately conservative crankdom: Notice that the ludicrous claim that...

sorry, conservatives: you deserve donald trump

From Jonah Goldberg,in an epic lament approximately the trumpenproletariat's crush on Donald...

its not just middle aged men who are dying younger

That paper by Angus Deaton and Anne Case approximately middle-aged white men dying at higher rates...

the fat lady finally sings for scott walker

Scott Walker,low on funds and polling at zero percent, has dropped out of the Republican race for...

how to pass a thousand year tax cut

Republicans would like to pass a permanent tax slice. Sadly for them,Senate procedures prevent that....

devin nunes explains why hes less conservative...

Devin Nunes represents the conservative 22nd district of California. It's an inland district...

high deductible health plans dont seem to...

Sarah Kliff points today to a new paper that investigates the effect of tall-deductible health...

raw data: heres how black kids are really doing in...

Bob Somerby is pretty ticked off at the way our "journalistic elites" cover black kids. In...

carly fiorina keeps digging a hole she never...

Over at Vox,Sarah Kliff asks the Fiorina campaign to back up Carly's claim that the Planned...

health care vote likely to happen on thursday

It's been literally hours since I last updated you on the Republican health care bill,so...

chart of the day: civil asset forfeiture is a...

I maintain never understood why civil asset forfeiture doesn't inspire more outrage. For...

ben carsons psychology test story gets even...

More Ben Carson news today! You remember Doc Carson's narrative about the psychology test hoax...

for blue collar men, life looks increasingly...

Here's a merger of two charts that have made the rounds recently. The first,from Brookings,...

a republicans guide to gotcha questions

Are "gotcha" questions unfair? It depends. I'm personally averse to Jeopardy-style factual...

trump: comey was disloyal, a showboat, and wouldnt...

On January 26,deputy AG Sally Yates informed the White House that Mike Flynn had been compromised by...

income stagnation has hit the young harder than...

Max Ehrenfreund points us today to a new paper by a quartet of researchers that looks at lifetime...

donald trump is worried about his first hundred...

I love this tweet: No matter how much I accomplish during the ridiculous standard of the first 100...

the curious case of dr. donald and mr. trump

On Fox Business this morning,President Trump said he's not done with health care after all. In...

father coughlin is alive and well in todays gop

Let's see. Over the past few days and weeks,Donald Trump has said:The Obama administration is...

the chinese are coming....to syria

In a typical election,candidates chase from the extreme to the middle as the campaign progresses. If...

rushcard locks out the poor from their money for...

Yesterday I saw the blurb on the just at the New York Times. Russell Simmons. RushCard. On the blink...

evening trump fuckuppery roundup

Here's a quick evening roundup of Trump fuckuppery. First up,I'm sure you remember that...

quote of the day: this shit is hard

From an anonymous White House official: I kind of pooh-poohed the experience stuff when I first got...

robots will take your job someday, but in the...

Are you worried approximately the robots coming to take your job? You should be! But that's...

a few unanswered questions from last nights debate

After reviewing the transcript of final night's debate I realized I had a few leftover...

ben carson is wrong about hitler and guns

More guns,fewer holocausts? Ben Carson said Thursday that Adolf Hitler’s mass murder of Jews...

donald trump releases tax plan the rich will love

excellent news! Donald Trump's tax plan is out. He claims it's revenue neutral,and,...

reuters: putin controlled think tank created plan...

Reuters reports that Vladimir Putin personally directed RISS,a Russian deem tank, to develop plans...

donald trumps destruction test of the republican...

A few days ago,like an evil mastermind on 24, Donald Trump declared that if we wanted to fight...

the great mystery of commute time and income...

Here's something I ran across accidentally nowadays. In a working paper released a few months...

everyone hated sequestration, but its effect was...

Kevin Williamson doesn't like the unusual budget deal. That's no surprise: the reason...

no, bernie sanders domestic policy plan doesnt...

The Wall Street Journal says Bernie Sanders' domestic policy plan would cost $18 trillion over...

iran will always be three months away from having...

Paul Waldman writes approximately the asymmetric political risks that Democrats and Republicans face...

trump advisor accidentally raises middle class...

Here is Gary Cohn—supposedly one of the "smart ones" in the Trump administration—explaining the...

its easter in mar a lago

What's on our president's intellect on this lovely Easter morning? Let's check in:...

paul krugman explains the latest draft of the tpp

Suppose there's a complex public policy proposal being debated and you want to know where you...

its the wall wot won it

Phil Klinkner takes to the pages of the LA Times this morning to repeat us that immigration was a...

friday fundraising and catblogging 11 december...

Don't worry: catblogging isn't being ditched today. But first,I'm going to make you...

benghazi continues to not be a scandal

Last night,as I was mass-deleting email, I noticed a message from some conservative group touting...

quote of the day: youd have to be nuts to want a...

We all know that John Boehner quit the speakership because he was finally fed up trying to deal with...

lets have more god talk in this campaign

"Liberal Jewish atheist" Paul Waldman thinks we should talk about God more: The United States has...

president trump wants steam, dammit, not this...

Behold our commander-in-chief making the tough decisions on weapons procurement for our newest trio...

so hows tech bubble number 2 panning out?

At the LA Times nowadays,Erin Griffith comments on the latest tech bubble: Each day there's a...

ted cruz explains the great recession

Jim Pethokoukis draws my attention to Ted Cruz's theory of why the noteworthy Recession was...

have you ever thought about the republican party?...

As much as we've talked about it,I wonder if we've really gotten our heads around the fact...

watch and be amazed as the internet becomes a...

It's approximately time we had a rigorous,quantitative way of telling our friends what we...

even conservatives agree that jeb bushs tax plan...

The Tax Foundation is a conservative outfit that's predisposed to like Jeb Bush's tax...

apple is yet again making a play for the corporate...

Tim Lee provides a rundown nowadays of the new products Apple is expected to announce tomorrow....

the trump russia connection was the buzz all over...

The Guardian reports that European spy agencies,including Britain's GCHQ, were the first to...

who is ben carsons mystery physicist?

By now,we all know that Ben Carson thinks the pyramids were built by Joseph as grain silos. I'm...

carly fiorina has found a new dedication to the...

reliable news! Carly Fiorina has turned over a original leaf and now admits that she was mistaken to...

a defense of becky quick

CNBC's Becky rapid/fast has come in for some criticism for being unprepared during...

are the f bombs getting worse here at mother...

Apropos of my suggested response this morning to the most obnoxious kinds of gotcha questions,David...

texas schools are performing pretty well....

David Leonhardt: When the Education Department releases its biennial scorecard of reading and math...

vw tries to blame engine emissions fraud on low...

I guess it was just a few bad apples. That's a relief: Volkswagen has blamed its emissions...

obamacare is doing fine unless trump kills it

The Congressional Budget Office says that Obamacare is in good shape: Under current law,most...

how bad was hillary clintons campaign?

A couple of hours ago I tweeted this: Here is my shocking opinion approximately the 2016 race:...

are we really in a housing bubble?

Are we in yet another housing bubble? The Case-Shiller chart I posted yesterday suggests we probably...

how many republicans are atheists?

How many Americans are atheists? Many people don't really like admitting it,but Brian Resnick...

while opec meets, oil prices continue to plummet

With oil prices plummeting below $40 per barrel,OPEC is assembly to decide what to conclude. The...

marco rubio bravely rules out negotiation with...

Marco Rubio has aired his first TV ad,and I suppose it's no surprise that we've already...

why did the media ignore the beirut bombings one...

After the Paris attacks,a popular tweet made the rounds asking why the media was covering it so...

are conservatives really going all in on ben...

Wow. I gather that conservatives are making a astronomical U-turn on Ben Carson. This morning most...

a billionaire sued us. we won. but we still have...

By now,you've probably read about Mother Jones' landmark legal win against Frank...

chart of the day: the kids these days are...

I suppose this isn't exactly breaking news,but young people sure are abandoning traditional...

the gop is the party of no escape

In the print magazine this month (yes! print!) I have a piece arguing that this year's odd lack...

border apprehensions down again in april

Another month,another drop in illegal immigration. The conservative Washington Times is crowing...

hillary clinton had the worst year in washington?

Chris Cillizza says Hillary Clinton had the "worst year in Washington." Jonathan Bernstein says...

inflation, consumer spending both down in march

Uh oh. The latest CPI figures are out today. It's just another monthly reminder that inflation...

house hostage takers give up, but promise plenty...

The ample news today is that John Boehner is apparently making ample on his promise to "clean the...

donald trump is sulking over his immigration order

Yesterday I wondered what kind of progress the Trump administration had made on its new immigration...

trump has already pre smeared sally yates

Sally Yates is a career civil servant in the Justice Department. She was hired under the first Bush...

the koch brothers show their human side

After Democrats won the White House in 2012 despite enormous amounts of spending by...

how sharp is justice scalia these days?

During Wednesday's verbal arguments in the University of Texas affirmative action case,Justice...

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the very best of the benghazi hearing

lets talk about bubbles and james comey

were live blogging the first democratic...

we are live blogging the gop presidential debate...

my annual black friday post — this year with...

even in the hands of an expert, mockery is tough...

jerry brown should sign californias assisted...

my annual black friday post this year with...

james comey wasnt a partisan hack. he was worse.

putin is wasting blood and treasure in syria. let...

we are programmed to receive

judge rules that boehner can sue obama — and...

why did democrats lose the white south?

microsoft announced some stuff yesterday

trump, carson duel for title of least prepared...

the white house story on comey just gets worse and...

yes, donald trump agreed that we should have a...

ask dr. science: campaign trail edition

lets take a look at how tough republicans would be...

the most important free speech question is: who...

big recessions are good for right wing politics

i think its safe to say that the ahmed mohamed...

wtf, volkswagen?

debate liveblogging: the second gop presidential...

since donald trump brought it up, lets ask him...

some notes toward a comprehensive plan for...

why has conservative talk radio gone gaga over...

gun controls biggest problem: most people just...

social media or not, a primary is still a primary

ben carson seems to have a serious personal...

marijuana for millionaires

coming soon: quantum computing on your desktop pc?

todays idiocy roundup

are us airlines worse than european airlines? this...

capitalism and machines go together like peanut...

trump plans to cram his entire legislative agenda...

new york times updates its 2015 hillary clinton...

conservatives need to admit that racism still...

the shiny new sharing economy is sure starting to...

trump tax plan unveiled!

its not just middle aged whites who are killing...

marx and keynes put economics on the map, and they...

republicans think the american dream is...

report: john boehner is the guy whos kept the...

remember that shot fired a few months ago in the...

scott walker no longer understands his own base

ted cruz is counting on republican voters to be...

let the mudslinging begin

a closer look at 2016 obamacare enrollment

james comey wrap up: benghazi and the press were...

we are live blogging the gop presidential debate...

the dirges have begun for steve bannon

ben carson and the tale of redemption

id give obamas syria policy a b

perhaps we should retire the idea that joe biden...

jeb bush has no clue about business regulation

donald trump and the politics of resentment

the new york times has imported the ethics of the...

ben carson apparently doesnt know what the debt...

ben carson supports the european court of human...

let us now praise baby boomers. and berate them...

unroll.me is latest victim of two minutes hate

a review of reviews of the handmaids tale

whos the most humble? we are!

the press needs to fight back on republican tax...

charts of the day: americans seem to be about as...

school life is better if you can dump the...

if you accuse hillary clinton of lying, you should...

ben carson and the conservative grift machine

donald trump has lost between $1 and $6 billion...

chart of the day: intriguing new data on getting...

another shot fired in the great immigration vs....

republicans have a cunning new plan to deal with...

trump floats nonsense idea of privatizing airports...

the disgrace of lamar smith and the house science...

lapd adopts new policy: de escalate first, shoot...

no, marco rubio has not killed obamacare

lets experiment with universal preschool