When you consider the structural advantages that health care reform had going for it early this summer (election for change, economic decession, giant Democratic majorities, supportive president who didn’t trounce committee chairs’ precious egos, etc) it’s obviously very depressing that we’re at where we’re at.
However, there are tougher battles to come.  People can go on [...]

The state with the prettiest name is also the state most reliant on late capitalism’s boundless growth for its survival.  It is the state with no income tax that advertises its own website on its license plates (at least, some of its license plates.  It has so many varieties the Legislature had to pass a [...]

When Ned Lamont beat Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Connecticut Senate primary, a lot of that was due to Lieberman being a sanctimonious, warmongering douche.  But there was also a mobile sculpture that dogged him at events, called “The Kiss,” in reference to a supposed incident where Bush planted one on him, maybe at the [...]

I kvetch a lot about the Times‘ conservative leanings, but to be honest, they are generally unexamined bourgeois assumptions with only the intermittent shocker about neoliberal economics, the virtues of bloodless centrism, or the importance of not investigating Bush Administration criminal acts.  I.e., on the balance, I still read the paper.
Letters to the editor are [...]