Lewis Black On Voter Suppression
He's a celebrity spokesman for the ACLU in its efforts to fight back against voter ID laws and other ways to suppress electoral rights...
Political Quote Of The Day
Matt Bai appeared on "The Daily Show" Monday night to promote his book, "All The Truth Is Out: The Week The News Went Tabloid." It's about Gary Hart's withdrawal from the 1984 presidential race after allegations about his personal life were made public by the media....
Our Gloomy Economic Mood
My brother, Seth, wrote a piece about Labor Day in which he asks why, if the US has emerged from the recession, the economic mood of the country remains so bad: It's not that Americans believe the economy isn't working; they know it isn't working for them. Their...
SNL & The 2008 Election
I'm looking forward to reading the updated version of Tom Shales/James Miller's oral history of "Saturday Night Live," timed to coincide with the upcoming 40th season of the show. The original covered 1975-2000, and the new material covers the years since then.....
Shut Up And Jam, Ted
Ted Nugent has been in the news again, with an Idaho tribe uninviting him to perform at their casino because of his "history of racist and hate-filled remarks." It's the same reason I stopped having him as a guest on my radio shows a decade ago -- his vitriol became...
Seth Harris On Broken Washington
My brother Seth returned to my show today to explain the Supreme Court's recent decision on presidential recess appointments, its effect on the National Labor Relations Board, and by extension its impact on unions and working Americans. He talked about how the entire...
Hillary vs. The Devil
Last week, the media latched onto part of an interview by Terry Gross of NPR's "Fresh Air" of Hillary Clinton and focused on a seven-minute segment about gay marriage. Gross pressed Clinton on when she first supported the idea, and whether she kept quiet about it...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Damon Linker on why he's not a Democrat -- he's an anti-Republican: My revulsion at the Republicans doesn't begin and end with Iraq and Benghazi. It's spread to many other issues over the years. Frankly, the GOP increasingly looks like a party in the grip of some form...