periodic comments on current politics, the 2004 elections, ideas and ideologies, economic policy, political reform, and perhaps some juicy gossip every now and then from the world of nonprofits and foundations working on these things.
The Reform Group That Came In From the Cold 244 days ago Read More
At last, one campaign finance reform organization has stepped up to its obligation to the public interest, with regard to Senator McCain's machinations. And it's a big one: Common Cause, under the ...
219 days ago Read More
Yes, if you stumbled here by accident, or because you never took this site off your RSS reader, you'll notice that there is some new content here. After letting The Decembrist lapse about 15 months...
Opening the Box. 251 days ago Read More
The news yesterday and today about a number of Democratic superdelegates moving toward Barack Obama or, even if ardent Clinton supporters like Joe Andrews of Indiana, admitting they would hesitate ...
Grand Reopening! 261 days ago Read More
Yes, if you stumbled here by accident, or because you never took this site off your RSS reader, you'll notice that there is some new content here. After letting The Decembrist lapse about 15 months...
The Communitarian 261 days ago Read More
(Cross-posted from TAPPED.) My first reaction to reading the text of Obama's speech on race and Rev. Wright was that it was too long and defensive. And echoing in my ears was still the insistence o...
Why Clinton Doesn't Want a Revote. 266 days ago Read More
(Cross-posted from TAPPED.) There aren't many windows into a strongly pro-Clinton/anti-Obama view in the blogosphere, making TalkLeft invaluable, where "Big Tent Democrat" (the former Armando of Da...