The New Republic

We expect presidential candidates to debate each other and, in many parts of the country, we expect congressional candidates to do the same. But, as far as I know, we have never had a major, prime-time debate between congressional leaders as a prelude to the midterm elections. READ MORE >>

When House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey slashed funding for President Obama's Race to the Top, an education reform fund, he painted the move as a regrettable necessity in order to find offsets to prevent teacher layoffs: READ MORE >>

[This is a guest post by Jonathan Cohn; photo from White House Flickr stream] READ MORE >>

Good nugget from Michiko Kakutani's review of Jonathan Alter's new Obama book: READ MORE >>

IN EARLY 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America's greatest documentarians, and the sister of the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who made An Inconvenient Truth-decided to do something that might strike most of us as common sense. Her father had directed or produced more than a hundred documentaries. Some of these were quite famous (Nine from Little Rock). Some were well-known even if not known to be by him (Monument to a Dream, the film that plays at the St. Louis arch). READ MORE >>

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Mark Schmitt has a terrific piece up today (joining Jonathan Alter's from earlier in the week) responding to Paul Krugman's "Obama-is-na READ MORE >>