Do We Have to Choose Between Guns and Climate?
This town may only be big enough for one single issue movement
Ever since Alec MacGillis’s terrific piece about building a progressive answer to the NRA, I’ve struggled with a nagging question: If, as Alec shows, the way to move the ball on gun control is to embrace the issue with single-minded intensity—specifically, to attack opponents and bolster supporters, regardless of which party they belong to--then doesn’t that mean other issues will suffer as a result?
Since the 29-year-old intelligence contractor Edward Snowden outed himself as the source of the NSA leaks on Sunday, reporters and pundits—heck, even Snowden himself—have compared him with Bradley Manning, the Army private on trial for passing classified material about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to Wikileaks. There’s obviously something to the comparison—both men were apparently dedicated enough to the cause of transparency to risk their lives for it.
Obamacare Is Killing the GOP
Republicans' obsession with the law will be the party's undoing
Republicans' obsession with the law will be the party's undoing.
Hunger Games
The conservative plan to starve government has paid off with the IRS scandal
The conservative plan to starve government has paid off with the IRS scandal.
The IRS fiasco shows that conservatives can be PC too.
Meet the Most Important Ted Cruz Birther: Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz is eligible to be president under almost any reading of the Constitution—except his own
Ted Cruz is eligible to be president under almost any reading of the Constitution—except his own.
He never had it
Why the FAA furloughs are only fair.
Meet Feiz Mohammad, the Australian preacher who dominated Tamerlan Tsarnev's YouTube channel
Gun Control Failed, Not Liberalism
The real lesson Obama should learn from this week's setback
The real lesson Obama should learn from this week's setback.
