Zombie Politics

T he facts on the Affordable Care Act as of October 13, 2016.   Now stop lying about it because you had some kind of an issue with authori...

Remember all that mouth foaming a year ago about how the Iran nuclear deal was a bad idea and that Iran wouldn't stick to the terms of t...

Getting back to Chris Mooney's book, The Republican Brain , we now turn to "Political Personalities." Recall that Mooney has n...

"We are all answerable..." The president summed up, in this one line, why I am not a conservative. We are indeed responsible f...

The Christian Science Monitor's cover story this week posits that Barack Obama is the Democrat's version of Ronald Reagan, a trans...

Obama Feeling 'Feisty,' Ready to Take on the 'Crazies' Yeah, he's not going to go gently into that good night, is he?...

I've been visiting family in Southern Illinois and Missouri for the past few days and it's always amusing to discuss politics with t...

Check out this fantastic piece on the decline of coal. The overblown political rhetoric about the plan tends to obscure the market realit...

Conservatives spent a great deal of time assuring Americans that the Affordable Care Act's rules on health care for businesses would res...

I wonder if the president reads Zombie Politics... President Obama stands by comments linking Republicans to Iranian hard-liners  “Just ...

Check this piece out from William Selatan at Slate. Here's only the first reason why Republicans should not be leading our country. 1...

With the GOP clown car filled up to max cap, Mike Huckabee needed to do something to get noticed. This task was especially difficult given t...

Vox has a great piece up regarding the president and his now very consequential place in US History. Obama has reestablished productive d...

As conservatives foam at the mouth about appeasement, the recent agreement with Iran (full text available here ) reads less like appeasement...