O’Neill: Teachers, Saul Alinsky, and the Boogey Man
One of the big boogey men of the always-paranoid right wing of American politics is Saul Alinsky. To hear Republicans tell it, Saul Alinsky was about the worst thing to…
Jeb Bush: The Return of ‘Compassionate’ Conservatism
Sixteen months before the Republican convention, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is a slight favorite to win the GOP presidential nomination. Given that Hillary Clinton is the overwhelming favorite to…
When Corrections Fail: The persistence of political misperceptions
A Dartmouth study on how misperceptions persist in the general public, and how media corrections may actually make people believe them even more... "It ain't what you don't know that…
Andy Borowitz | Peace With Iran Could Limit Ability to Bomb It, Warns McCain
Shortly after world powers successfully negotiated a nuclear-framework agreement with Iran, Sen. John McCain warned that a lasting peace with the Middle Eastern nation "could greatly limit our ability to…
A New Era of Televangelists
Instead, Republican candidates have managed to merge corporations-are-people politics with a personal-relationship-with-Jesus platform. Where Christ hates all the right people, Ayn Rand is the Virgin Mother and the Apostles are…