Undercover Blue

President Barack Obama’s order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison highlights one of the Bush administration’s few successes - the campaign t...

When President-elect Barack Obama appeared Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” he was measured in answering whether or not he would close the pris...

Everything you know is wrong. Just ask Firesign Theater . Better yet, just ask Rush - Democrats created the economic meltdown. Digby respon...

From Rep. Heath Shuler's (D-NC) district, in a state with unemployment already above the national average : ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Thousands ...

The Firedoglake article below was well received around the web. Johnson argues for the grassroots thinking more long term and getting into ...

It's an article of faith among free-marketeers that Americans are overregulated. But most Americans have forgotten what freedom from reg...

The Worst Predictions About 2008 10. A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win , the title of a book by conserv...

The Agonist primer on the financial meltdown . Read it before you hear about in on the Nightly Business Report

This year’s election was right out of Frank Capra. An army of Obama volunteers fanned out like Boy Rangers, knocking on doors, making calls ...

Duncan Black's assessment of Imperious Leader. The occasion ? Bush withdraws pardon of Suffolk real estate scammer White House issues e...

Conservatives are creatures of habit. Once they have a play that works for them, they will run it over and over and over again. One reason t...

Vanity Fair has a lengthy piece on the Bush torture regime and its effectiveness. Abu Zubaydah, alleged al Qaida kingpin, was basically ...

A Wall Street executive gets a bonus. Plus a little toxic waste : (Fortune) -- Kudos to Credit Suisse. Drowning in red ink, the Swiss bank a...

This is simply insane (from Bloomberg ): Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which got $10 billion and debt guarantees from the...

How much collateral damage are Senate conservatives willing for America to incur so they can cripple the United Auto Workers? How many lost ...

My post this week at Campaign for America's Future got posted on TomPaine.com between pieces by Joe Stiglitz and James K. Galbraith : ...

Losers . Just like the half-million irresponsible deadbeats who suddenly lost their jobs (and health care) last month. As a co-worker says,...

During early voting, my wife described having the feeling that after eight, long years, the country's fever was beginning to break. But ...

Post-election, I don't come down from running on coffee, chocolate and little sleep until mid-November. I spent Friday afternoon and ye...

From today's NYT : Two weeks after persuading Congress to let it spend $700 billion to buy distressed securities tied to mortgages, the ...