(A "Both Sides" Reader) The bad argument's natural habitat is the political talk show. (Well, it's one of its natural ...

The "sensible centrists" and Very Serious People who make up the "savvy" establishment commentariat ( the Village ) ar...

The mainstream political press has a horrible tendency to rely on false equivalencies and to conclude, far too simplistically and without nu...

Digby's recently covered The New York Times ' decision to call torture torture , Marcy Wheeler's summary of the issue, and poss...

A high school teacher of mine told the story of playing a trading game as part of teacher training on race and social issues. The kicker wa...

(If Mark Halperin spouts bullshit in the forest and there's no one there to hear it, is it still the fault of the Dirty Fucking Hipp...