We’re Still Doomed, Continued
A government shutdown is looking less likely. Here’s why that should scare you.
Author: Elias Isquith
Elias Isquith is a freelance journalist and blogger. He considers Bob Dylan and Walter Sobchak to be the two great Jewish thinkers of our time; he thinks Kafka was half-right when he said there was hope, "but not for us"; and he can be reached through the twitter via @eliasisquith or via email. The opinions he expresses on the blog and throughout the interwebs are exclusively his own.
Bloomberg on the GOP’s Obamacare Alternative: Thank You but Try Again
The GOP still can’t come up with a conservative answer to Obamacare.
We’re Still Doomed
The latest developments in the latest shutdown crisis do not portend well for those who are into the whole operational government thing.
I’m now convinced that bombing Syria is the wrong thing to do
James Fallows relays William R. Polk’s assessment of the Syria situation.
“The faint echoes of Sister Souljah rattling around American racial politics”
In an otherwise fine speech, the President continues a pandering tic that’s well past its sell-by date.
Inequality and MLK
An insightful Bloomberg op-ed highlights the special relationship between Martin Luther King and organized labor.
Poverty: Giving a Damn
It’s just awful hard for me to take the technocratically-minded conservative arguments especially seriously when it’s so evident that many conservatives — high-up ones, not just low-level activists — really don’t give a damn about poverty.
A New Kind of Grand Bargain
Alex Pareene noticed this, too, but something I wanted to highlight is the fact that the president’s calling his new proposal — a cut to corporate tax rates in exchange for using the freed-up money...
What Mitt Romney Meant
A new Economist piece sheds light on whether or not Romney’s 2012 rhetoric was as plastic as it seemed.
The Sequester: Still a Thing
The most obvious and lasting results of the sequester are being felt by those who need the government most, and influence it the least.
The Inequality President
Reading the interview, you get the impression of a guy already trying to define the way his presidency is interpreted and his immediate post-presidency is understood.
A Healthy Commotion – An Introduction
Ordinary Times is proud to introduce its latest sub-blog, penned by our own Elias Isquith, Ethan Gach, and Shawn Gude.
Immigration Reform’s Last Best Chance
Why a clever grassroots style campaign to persuade Congressional Republicans to allow a vote on reform still won’t work.
