Tom Piccirilli is an author of noir fiction, thrillers, science fiction, poetry, and horror, among other things.  He's been extremely prolific in the last twenty-odd years, raking in lots of Bram Stoker Awards, a couple of International Thriller Writer… more »

E.J. Dionne takes on this extraordinary battle about contraception and the culture wars. As a former Catholic who once went to seminary, I understand this church doctrine on contraception/abortion which has outlived its actual usage. Most Catholic women… more »

  This kind of thing portends the kind of petty mudslinging that will make this next presidential campaign one of the most acrimonious in US History Mitt Romney’s misfire on the national anthem Posted by Glenn Kessler at 06… more »

Listened this am to Warren Buffett talking about paying his fair share of taxes, something Romney obviously does not think a good idea. When asked if he understood why so many billionaire/millionaires call the revising of the tax code 'class warfare,' h… more »

As for the Tea Party voters, they are supposed to be looking for an outsider á la Ron Paul, not a man who has spent decades in Washington, first as a politician and then profiting from politics. So what is going on? Simple. Gingrich does not share the… more »

Krugman again talks of this endlessly overemphasized debt problem the right keeps foisting on the American populace. The point he makes is that the problems the economy faces are not debt-driven, and the budget deficit is not the primary issue political… more »

  Paul Krugman's Post-Truth Politics editorial takes Romney's fabrications about Obama and several other falsities and puts them in glaring light. How can the media justify reporting as the truth what in fact is utter lying. PK points out the media dec… more »

Robert Reich quotes from Obama's important economic speech, with commentaries from Reich following parts of the text. Reich feels that this is the kind of economic and social understanding that first brought Barack Obama to office. Echoes of both Theodo… more »