political philosophy

Why do we exalt Jefferson over the Adams family? Answer that and I think you get to the heart of...

What I have learned in my own life is that torture is not the black-white issue we make it. We...

The future of the Republican Party is no longer in its own hands. It can, and will, respond to any...

The election of President Obama, and his promise to create a new consensus significantly to the left of the old...

The political genius of Barack Obama lies in how he has united Democrats with Spectermen in furtherance of his agenda,...

As Markos Moulitsas notes it's strange for Netroots Democrats to be watching the edifice of the once-almighty conservative movement collapse...

The only thing which works against evil is justice. The slow drip-drip-drip of investigation, of discovery, the evidence laid out...

It is very possible that, before the black terror of our own time is put down, extremists such as Cent...

If Republicans were not so busy dismissing his politics I'm certain they would admit, too, that Barack Obama does a...

Bachmann represents a long-running strain in American political thought, one that reaches deep into our history. You may call her...