The success of Christian conservatives in blocking efforts to legalize Sunday alcohol sales in Georgia demonstrates why concentrating solely on national politics is a mistake.
Shirley Sherrod’s lawsuit against Andrew Brietbart promises to be an interesting test of the boundaries of defamation law in the political blogosphere.
Later this week, Clarence Thomas will have gone five years without asking a question during oral argument at the Supreme Court. Is that really a big deal?
Oddly, the Democratic Party seems to be responding to the 2010 midterms by moving further left.
President Obama’s approval numbers have dropped 9 points since the Egypt crisis broke out.
As the night of the State Of The Union Address approaches, the silliness in Washington has been taken up a notch.
Martin Luther King’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech was, like a political stump speech, crafted and polished over months and years of delivery.
150 years ago, President-Elect Abraham Lincoln was presented with a chance to avert Civil War. He passed it up, and we should be glad that he did.
Despite anecdotal evidence debunking global warming, 2010 was another record year for warm temperatures.
Anti-Immigrant groups are beginning their assault on the 14th Amendment, but don’t expect it to go anywhere.
The seemingly sensible end-of-life counseling that was originally part of the Health Care Reform Bill is making a comeback.
Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies should rightly be enormously proud of their accomplishments. But comparing them to John Wooden’s is embarrassing.
Rick Gosselin of the Dallas Morning News is a must-read for NFL fans, always offering sharp insights into the game garnered over decades of experience. But, like anyone else, he can develop silly theories from anecdotal evidence.
Roughly 150 years ago, the CSA was born. Is this something worthy of celebration?
NATO-Russia cooperation on missile defense is a welcome step forward.
The NFL’s “especially mercenary” push to extract new stadia from cities–even where the stadium’s practically brand-new.
An NBC analysis shows Tea Party candidates winning only 5 of 10 Senate races and 40 of 130 House races, a success rate of only 32 percent.
Harvard’s Jack Hamilton extols “Robert Plant’s Second Act” for the Atlantic. In so doing, he gives us an interesting look at the more important First Act.
We’ve been talking about the 2010 elections since, oh, the day after the 2008 elections. Now, it’s time for final predictions.
Politico says 99 Democratic House seats are “in play.” They’re not. But dozens are.
Some Democratic candidates for Congress are working hard to distance themselves from Nancy Pelosi.
Republicans are suddenly targeting — and Democrats in some cases are conceding — House seats that were until recently considered out of play.
Daniel Larison’s “The Case Against NATO” makes compelling reading. In my New Atlanticist post “The Case Against the Case Against NATO,” I explain why it’s wrong.
A new projection of Congressional reapportionment shows a dramatic shift to traditionally Republican states in the South and Southwest.
A staffer for U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss left a threatening slur on an Internet discussion of the right of gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. military.
The Navy has fired fourteen skippers this year. Eleven of those were for personal misconduct.
Newt Gingrich is drawing fire for his comments about that the President has a “Kenyan world view.” But, will Newt every pay the price for his inflammatory rhetoric ? Don’t count on it.
It’s beginning to look like initial reports that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill had been “cleaned up” may not be true after all.
Another round of primaries last night made the playing field for November just a little bit clearer to see.
Senate Republicans want to rethink the 14th Amendment’s automatic citizenship for people born in the U.S.
Can a public university expel a student for a religiously-motivated aversion to homosexuality?
Massachusetts will become the latest state to join the National Popular Vote movement, a compact wherein states throw their Electoral College votes to the nationwide winner once enough states agree to ensure that outcome.
Among the other lessons it teaches us, the Shirley Sherrod incident shows that the Obama Administration is seemingly becoming weaker by the day.
