Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.

[D]ebt increases that didn't arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.

On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment isn't O.K. just because it hasn't hit 1933 levels; ominous political trends shouldn’t be dismissed just because there’s no Hitler in sight.

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

Wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but failed to realize that eventually the craziness would take on a life of its own, and that the monster they created would turn on its creators as well as the little people.