It shouldn’t be easy for a group of Antiwar.com writers and supporters to just walk in and dish about foreign policy at the Left Forum, which claims to be the biggest annual convocation of Leftwing activists in the country. But it was -- easy, that is. In fact, some...
90 Days, 90 Reasons is a project conceived by author Dave Eggers to rekindle young(ish) America's romance with Barack Obama. Each day features a post by someone you might have seen in movies or heard on NPR. Today's post is by Reza Aslan, "an internationally acclaimed...
...is to be called an 'Arab.' At least that is my take away from the latest Obama ad to appease bigots. In today's Electronic Intifada, editor Ali Abunimah notes how easily and breezily this slips by the sensible Eastern Establishment censors: But The Hill fails to...
In an otherwise OK report on the attorney general's assassination address, Adam Serwer of Mother Jones quips, "There won't be any drone strikes in Denver anytime soon." I say, "Wanna bet?" I mean it. I assume that "Denver" is a synecdoche, so Serwer just needs to...
On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder finally explained why it's legal for him to annihilate you on a hunch. The nation's liberals arose as one to condemn this brazen attack on American principles of... Hehe, just kidding. The nation's liberals were all listening to...
Kevin Drum, the Leonidas of the left 49-yard line, predicts the ways in which a Romney presidency would differ from an Obama presidency. Drum assumes that Romney would have a Republican majority in the Senate, so this is not a best-case scenario for liberals. I...
Kevin Drum advises those who want a noninterventionist, pro–civil liberties candidate to ditch Ron Paul and look elsewhere. I grew curious about what Drum had to say about the two least interventionist, most pro–civil liberties Democrats who ran for president in 2008....
Kevin Drum of Mother Jones has some fatherly advice for all you idiots: Bottom line: Ron Paul is not merely a "flawed messenger" for these views. He's an absolutely toxic, far-right, crackpot messenger for these views. This is, granted, not...
Tom Hayden: On Saturday, the day after Obama’s statement, my heart felt good as I introduced Representative Barbara Lee at a Los Angeles fundraiser. In the lightness of her mood I sensed a burden had been lifted from her heart as well. Some of the hundred people in...
Of all the daily affirmations liberals tell themselves, none soothes me more than the one about how an Al Gore presidency would have spared us the Iraq War. Why, wasn't Al suitably smug about Dubya's "cowboy" act in 2002? Didn't Michael Moore open Fahrenheit 9/11 with...
