- The American Mind—"The historian Garry Wills has written better than anybody else about modern America."
- The Politics of Misperception—"Ever wonder what our public discourse would be like if everyone agreed on the facts? You can keep wondering."
- Does Irrationality Doom America?—"How rational problem-solving has ceased to be "serious" among US elites."
- Are Americans Too Stupid For Democracy?—"How can we rationally pursue our self-interests when we don't know what's going on?"
- Kerry defends liberties, says Americans have "right to be stupid"
- GOP Senate candidate: Paul Ryan too moderate—"Rep. Paul Broun, who is running for Georgia's Senate seat, pens Op-Ed demanding more austerity and cuts." Salon
- Why Tea Partiers Are Boycotting Fox News
- Michele Bachmann runs away from reporter—"Don't you dare ask the congresswoman about something she said in a speech." She also is running away from Papa Bear. Salon
- Birther Hypocrisy- Right Wing Has No Problem With Canadian Born Senator Ted Cruz Running For President
- The American Phenomenon We Should Stay Far Away From—"The GOP is not suffering federally because, as the report in part claims, it fails to have sufficient spokespeople with black, Hispanic or Asian faces, or who are women, but because it has become a farm team for intolerance, anti-intellectualism and undesirables."
- Republicans love poor people now—"The party that forever demonized struggling Americans now realizes it needs them, in order to survive. Oops." Salon
- Salon's Joan Walsh: Rush Limbaugh Helped The GOP Lose The Election
- Krugman: The Dunning-Kruger-Madoff Effect—"Nothing will shake the right-wing faith."
- Drum: The Republican Party Might Not Be Quite Dead Yet
- The numbers prove it: The GOP is estranged from America
- GOP: We've been lying all along—"Boehner's admission that we don't really have a debt crisis reveals his party's ulterior, program-cutting motives." Salon
- WBI: More on the Chicken-and-Egg Deficit-and-Jobs Issue
- Economists Disagree With Paul Ryan’s Claim That 'Debt Is Crushing Our Economy'
- Selling the Store: Why Democrats Shouldn't Put Social Security and Medicare on the Table
- Senate Votes 40-59 To Reject Ryan Budget
- Republicans Win Congress as Democrats Get Most Votes
- One Day After RNC Calls For Minority Outreach, Arkansas GOP Passes Bill To Suppress Minority Vote
- Desiline Victor, Obama's 102-Year-Old Voter, 'Shocked' By Scalia's 'Racial Entitlement' Remark
- Survivor Zerlina Maxwell Defies Racist Death Threats After Speaking Out on Fox News
- Native American Lawmaker To Anti-Immigrant Kansas Official: 'When You Mention Illegal Immigrant, I Think Of All Of You'
- When The GOP Told Whitey I Aint Gonna Take It No More
- Race, Denial, Obliviousness and Oblivion
- FDNY Heir Really Outdid Himself With the Racist Tweets
- 'Being White in Philly': America agonises over race and free speech after article sparks furore—"Candid reflections by Robert Huber, a white author, on life in Philadelphia, the city where the US founding fathers first met, have triggered outrage amid a racial debate across America. Philip Sherwell reports."
- Published Rant Causes Controversy In Lincoln County—"An anonymous caller left a rant, making slurs against homosexuality, religion and race, on the newsroom's voicemail...", saying to "clear them people out and have good, white, God-fearing Christians" and "keep Lincoln County white and right."
- Stuck With Each Other—"The religious right can't get away from the GOP, and the GOP can't get away from the religious right."
- How The Internet Is Erasing The Religious Right's Political Power
- Gov. Steve Beshear vetoes religious freedom bill, says it threatens public safety, civil rights
- Petition Interdiction: Tenn. legislator seeks to make it a crime to protest church-state violations
- IRS revokes 'Pray away gay' group's tax-exempt status
- Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll resigns—"Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll abruptly resigned Tuesday after law enforcement officials questioned her about ties to a purported veterans charity at the center of a $300 million illegal gambling investigation."
- Rick Perry's $487 Million Corporate Slush Fund Doesn't Need Your Stinkin' Audit—"The Texas governor doesn't agree that his corporate-handout fund needs an audit—because he and two other GOP pols already monitor it."
- JobsOhio to refund public money—"JobsOhio has voluntarily complied with Auditor Dave Yost's subpoena and will repay the state the millions of taxpayer dollars it's received, the privatized economic development agency said. The main question now is why the public money is being returned."
- White House Petition: Make Lawmakers Wear Logos Of Financial Backers On Clothing, Like In NASCAR
- Conflicts of interest run rampant in state legislatures—"Rules are few, oversight weak so lawmakers vote regularly on bills that affect their outside interests."
- Corporate Welfare Grows to $154 Billion even in Midst of Major Government Cuts
- 3 women were paid to falsely claim they had sex with Menendez, Dominican police say
- Lawyer behind Menendez prostitution allegations recants, fabricates media conspiracy
- Controversial Daily Caller Editor Admitted to Posing As Radical Animal Rights Activist
- Colbert Busch wins South Carolina Democratic primary&
- How to turn a state liberal—"Colorado's progressive miracle is a road map to a much brighter America. Here are 9 steps behind the transformation." Salon
- How Noam Chomsky is discussed—"The more one dissents from political orthodoxies, the more the attacks focus on personality, style and character."
- Liberal Hypocrite Purchases Home—Conservative bloggers' faux outrage documented.
- Detroit Waits, Apprehensive, for Manager to Take Over—"A city whose finances are in a dire state loses the power to run itself, and everyone waits to see what will happen next." NYT
