Adele Stan

Good morning, Animals! Time to fetch that latte and brioche, and settle into a morning of liberal heaven: Sunday papers and shows full of people talking politics. But before we get started, allow me to apologize for evaporating yesterday without so much as a by-your-leave, thanks to a technical problem with servers in a faraway […]

Watch our fearless leader, Editor in Chief Paul Glastris, this morning on The McLaughlin Group. To find out when the show is scheduled to air in your area, or to watch video of the show online, go to the show’s site, here.

A headline on today’s New York Times blares: Sales of Guns Soar in U.S. as Nation Weighs Tougher Limits (Well, the Times‘ trumpet blares through a mute.) Here’s some of the scariest bits, in Michael Cooper’s article — a piece that’s pretty frightening throughout: High-capacity magazines, which some state and federal officials want to ban […]

This performance, from the acclaimed composer of “Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road,” (and featured in the aforementioned Moyers & Company episode) took place at The New Yorker in 2010. H/t BillMoyers.com

In a fascinating and sprawling interview with Bill Moyers, airing this weekend on the PBS show, Moyers & Company, New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman explained why he didn’t want to be nominated to the post of Treasury secretary, even after 235,000 people signed an online petition urging the president to appoint […]

Good morning, animals! It’s so great to be back with you this weekend, thanks to the kind offices of Brother Kilgore. In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been having, here in your nation’s capital, what is known as a “slow news week,” something reporters are wont to whine about. What this actually means is that […]

Well, Animals, it’s been another delightful weekend blogging for you, and I’m grateful to Ed Kilgore and Washington Monthly for inviting me in. I got a bit carried away, I’m afraid, with writing that post about Santorum and the U.N. treaty, so hence the late sign-off. I leave you with a few things worthy of […]

If you expected Senate Republicans to have learned any lessons from the drubbing they took in the November elections, you’d have done well to have expected them to learn the wrong lessons. For instead of the humility one might expect from a party in receipt of a comeuppance, Republicans, at least those who fear primary […]

Reading right-wingers assess the Senate legacy of Jim DeMint, R-S.C., which we discussed at some length in yesterday’s post, is always amusing, if not so intended by the assessor. Here’s New York Times columnist Ross Douthat: This chapter — the DeMint chapter, the Tea Party chapter, call it what you will — was probably a […]

Let’s say you and your brother are a pair of billionaires who reap your profits from the poisoning of the earth and whose daddy co-founded the John Birch Society — and you poured millions into the 2012 elections, only to see your candidates felled by a party led by a black guy who’s big on […]