Joe and Nick sit down for a special, late week talk about the fallout of the non-guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman case. Guns, race, and bad lawyering are the talk of the day. Then they discuss the candidacy of…
The full panel finally returns! Allison, Nick, and Joe discuss the end of the Supreme Court term from the highs regarding marriage equality and the lows involving voting rights and workplace and consumer rights. Is the problem a progressive movement…
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Joe and Nick discuss yesterday’s bombing in Boston. In particular, the panel addresses the flurry of media (and social media) speculation and the relative merits and demerits of a world where news is valued for speed as much as substance.…
So this guy wrote a list article explaining how dirty liberals have misled America. It’s mostly unevidenced ranting…and you know what we do to unevidenced ranting! Possible Myth 1: Liberals love science The liberal commitment to science consists entirely of…
Joe and Allison review the latest Republican counteroffer in the fiscal cliff negotiations and wonder whether they have any sense of how negotiations even work. They also check in on the evolving Susan Rice controversy, wondering if the furor over…
There’s a ton of Republican second-guessing over the election. Bobby Jindal and Lindsay Graham are trying to change the Republican Party itself, blaming its inaccessible and close-minded approach for electoral losses. These critiques seem to overlook the role that both…
You do have to feel a little bad for conservatives these days. Not only did they watch a primary process slip away from them and an old guard, patrician “Liberal” Republican who shared with them little more than a profound…
The usual suspects are joined by Elie Mystal of Above the Law to gloat about the election results and sacrifice the customary goat to our overlord Nate Silver. We also discuss the sex scandal involving Gen. David Petraeus where Elie, the…
1) To people who hate math — Suck it: It’s not dumb to say that we have heaped more praise upon Nate Silver (and his compatriots like Sam Wang) than deserved. After all, it was the community of pollsters who…
When the Supreme Court authorized unchecked SuperPAC spending in elections with the Citizens United decision, there was a lot of fear and confusion. Suddenly extremely wealthy people and businesses could anonymously spend more than the candidates themselves to sway the…