Wendell Potter was back on my show today to talk about his new book, “Nation On The Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It” (read an excerpt here). Among the questions we discussed: How much time do our elected representatives spend fundraising? How much money do they need? […]
Veteran radio programmer Darryl Parks thinks this year’s presidential election will mark the end of right-wing talk radio: Conservative talk radio and the Republican party are connected, once again trying to energize their common “base.” Each are equally disconnected to generational changes, ethnic and demographic changes and generally the world around them. Each comfortably exists […]
When I voted yesterday in the presidential primary, I knew that all of the GOP candidates’ names would be on the ballot (including the ones who have “suspended” their campaigns), but for the Democrats, I thought there would be exactly two: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. But there were nine, including the withdrawn Martin O’Malley, […]
Please stop making a big deal out of Republicans in the Senate refusing to consider President Obama’s choice of Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court. I’m not saying they’re right (they’re clearly not), but why is anyone surprised that the GOP — which has been obstructionist about pretty much everything Obama has tried to do […]
Paul Waldman explains that, despite the incessant drumbeat on right-wing talk radio, Fox News, and from the mouths of GOP candidates, Hillary Clinton is not going to be indicted for anything related to her use of a private e-mail server. He lays out the facts pretty succinctly: 1. Clinton set up a personal email account […]
In a Washington Post column, Keith Olbermann announced that he’s so fed up with Donald Trump that he’s moving out of an apartment he owns in a building owned by the GOP front runner: I’m getting out because of the degree to which the very name “Trump” has degraded the public discourse and the nation […]