Steve Thorngate
About Boehner's speech
In his combative response to President Obama's speech last night, House Speaker John Boehner offered an uncommonly crystalized rendition of an all too common bit of GOP nonsense.
Compromise, compromise
The debt-ceiling fight is about politics, not policy. But count on the news media to conflate the two—in service of the trope that everyone just needs to meet in the middle of wherever they are right now.
One way to change the conversation
A new Century editorial argues that unemployment, not the budget deficit,
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Rais Bhuiyan's impact
Last month I posted about Rais Bhuiyan, the Muslim hate crime victim who is advocating that his attacker, who shot Bhuiyan as part of a post-9/11 shoo...
The poet at Lambeth Palace
When the T-Mobile royal
wedding video went viral (look-alikes portray the principals and dance down the
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Brown v. EMA and the obscenity double standard
Here's something that doesn't
happen everyday: Commonweal contributor
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