Oct. 16 Open Thread: Oh, Wait, Yeah, Right…You Mean That Journalist
The Saudis aren't the fastest liars on the planet, that's for sure. It took them a week to come around to "he died under questioning by rogue elements," which ranks…
Oct. 15 Open Thread: Fellow Worker Gritty
The Legend of Gritty continues to spread, this time with a piece in the New Yorker titled "How the Left won the war for Gritty." The author notes that Gritty…
Oct. 13 Open Thread: It’s Not Just Mike Matthews
What happened to Mike Matthews is going on all over America as election season nears a boil. The same day a Connecticut Republican dropped out of his race over Facebook…
Oct. 12 Open Thread: Liberal Reluctantly Sees Some Good in Socialism
In a long essay on the rise of socialism as a political force, Jonathan Chait grapples with the fears of center-left liberals who think socialism's goals are too scary to…
Oct. 11 Open Thread: Bloom Energy, the Gift That Keeps on Taking
With apologies to non-baseball fans, Delaware's contract with Bloom Energy is like the deal the Phillies signed with aging slugger Ryan Howard -- an exorbitant amount of guaranteed money for…
Oct. 9 Open Thread: This Just In… Tom Carper Loves Big Pharma…That Is All
The State News looked into the anti-Carper full-page mailers attacking him for his Big Pharma ties. They found the Patients for Affordable Drugs Action but didn't get a whole lot…
Oct. 5 Open Thread: Drunken, Lying, Privileged Partisan Hacks Are People, Too
I'm starting to wonder if the Republicans haven't overplayed their hand on Brett Kavanaugh. For a day or two they gained ground in polls by stoking the fires of white…
Oct. 4 Open Thread: That’s Justice Partisan Ratfucker to You
Knowing what he knows now, Donald Trump probably would have nominated someone other than Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. We know that from the Washington Post, which laid out…
Oct. 3 Open Thread: Stop the Presses, Trump Is a Tax Cheat
Raise your hand if you thought the Trump family fortune was achieved by following all tax laws to the letter. Yeah, thought so. Still, the New York Times deserves credit…
Oct. 1 Open Thread: Coons’ Pyrrhic Victory
So Chris Coons did all that for nothing. Republicans have made clear that they won't actually investigate Kavanaugh, because if they did they couldn't get him confirmed. They're OK with…
Sept. 29 Open Thread: Biden Lies Low in the Shadow of Anita Hill
For somebody who's supposedly weighing a presidential run, Joe Biden sure has been quiet during the year's biggest political drama. Not without reason -- Republicans are following his 1991 playbook…
Sept. 27 Open Thread: Kavanaugh Personifies Class Privilege
The Brett Kavanaugh saga has exposed the ugliest side of America -- its upper crust. As Chauncey de Vega notes, Kavanaugh has benefited at every step of his life from…
Sept. 26 Open Thread: UD Poll Shows Huge Leads for Carper, LBR
A University of Delaware poll found enormous leads for Sen. Tom Carper and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, but the most shocking figure was Republican Senate candidate Rob Arlett's anemic 22%…