Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.

You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we’re going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.

A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy.

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

We have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.

By rescuing the financial system without reforming it, Washington has done nothing to protect us from a new crisis, and, in fact, has made another crisis more likely.

The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.