Politics
Political InQueery: Where in the World is G. Gordon Liddy?
Beware the leaders of plumbers. Okay, I don't really mean that. This is why generalizing is bad, because certainly there was only one plumber who helped people break into the Democratic National Headquarters offices in the Watergate facility. And really, they were just using "plumber" as a metaphor... Read more »
Political InQueery: Pot, Kettle, Meet Black
There's a brouhaha in northern Iowa, as people have begun decrying a new anti-Obama billboard bought and paid for by a local Tea Party organization. It depicts Adolf Hitler as a "Nationalist Socialist," Barack Obama as a "Democrat Socialist," and Lenin as a "Marxist Socialist." Nevermind that "... Read more »
Political InQueery: We're Still at War
Think back just a couple of years, and you'll return to the tail end of the Bush Administration. For some, it marks the terminus of the good times: when America didn't look to allies in order to make foreign policy, when we were on the right road against "abortionists," and abstinence-only... Read more »
On Our Radar
Is it already Friday?! We’re rounding up some of the most interesting things we read this week in another edition of On Our Radar.
Johannes Mehserle, the ex-BART officer who shot and killed Oscar Grant, has been found guilty of... Read more »
Political InQueery: The Bill of Rights Strikes Back
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
So reads the text of the Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution. This week, it became a player in the push for same-sex marriage.
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Political InQueery: When Local Politicians Do Bad Things
Sure, it's hard to live in the spotlight, even if it's a local spotlight, like the one we shine on mayors. I can't think of many other jobs as thankless as being mayor, because the people who fancy themselves watchdogs are really, really into it and there's not much that escapes public scrutiny,... Read more »
Political InQueery: The Annual Vote for Change
Maybe the summer only seems quiet, free from the stresses of the holiday season, the doldrums of mid-winter, and the frantic fervor of spring. Maybe this is when we're lulled into complicity and we acquiesce into a false sense of comfort. Because fall is just around the corner, and it's not just... Read more »
On Our Radar
We're rounding up some of the most interesting things we read this week in another installment of On Our Radar!
On Salon, Madeline Holler writes on the downsides of radical... Read more »
Political InQueery: Close Encounters of the First Lady Kind
The most boring exhibit I ever saw in any of the Washington, DC Smithsonian museums was, without a doubt, the gowns of the First Ladies. Oh, how I could not have cared less. But my mother preened over them like she'd just found some rare bird egg sitting under her window. Helen Taft? Grace Coolidge... Read more »
Political InQueery: She's Got to Be Something, Right?
Regardless of which person the President would have selected for Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, I would have been interested. I am curious to see what floats around in the ether (read: debate) around present-day nominees, and given the interest by many in the makeup of the... Read more »
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