The New Republic

As someone who believes that preventing teens, drug addicts, reality-TV wannabes, and other unfit idiots from having babies is the key to civilization, this may be the most depressing and horrifying thing I've ever read (and that includes the Starr Report): Gaps found in young people's sex knowledge READ MORE >>

Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, just put out a statement on health care reform. There are few players in the health care debate whose judgment I respect more than his. And he is not happy with what's transpired in the last week. READ MORE >>

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With his pro-Lauper smack talk about Madonna, it's clear Chait has gone completely 'round the bend.     READ MORE >>

The latest intra-progressive dustup over health care reform displays a couple of pretty important potential fault lines within the American center-left. One has to do with political strategy, and the role of the Democratic Party and the presidency in promoting progressive policy goals and social movements. Like others engaging in the traditional year-end essays, I'll be writing about that subject extensively in the coming days. READ MORE >>

... even when it comes to listening to himself talk. Here's part of Dobbs' entertaining rant against the Washington Post's Ezra Klein: READ MORE >>

Paul Krugman has an (implicitly derisive) link to Time's 1985 joint profile of Cyndi Lauper and Madonna, which portrayed the former as an enduring new presence on the music scene and the latter as a flash in the pan who'd soon be out of music altogether: READ MORE >>

With any other POTUS-Secretary of State combo, this latest poll, in which Clinton enjoys significantly higher approval ratings than her boss (75 vs. 51), would be completely unremarkable. READ MORE >>

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The latest round of fretting in global debt markets is focused on Greece (WSJ; Greece). This is misplaced. READ MORE >>