The Big Con
"Nixonland": Uber Allis, Interruptus, or Finis?
November 5th, 2008
It's been an interesting few days. more » 
Debunked: Ten Conservative Myths About National Security
September 12th, 2008
In the seven years since the U.S. was hit by a terrorist attack, a few of the myths promulgated in those first few years have hardened firmly into a new conventional wisdom—some so stubbornly that you often won't even find progressives questioning them any more. The time has come to call out a few of these persistent myths that are still being taken as fact and start firing back on them.... more »
Behind The Attack Against ACORN
The right-wing attack against ACORN and its voter registration drive is based on clear falsehoods and is the latest chapter in a history of deliberate voter suppression orchestrated by the right, according to this video released by Brave New Films. more »
Countering Far Right Eliminationist Rhetoric
The kind of hateful statements against liberals and people of color that have been hurled by people attending Republican political rallies is likely to be a harbinger of a more violent acting-out by right-wing extremists as progressives gain more political power, OurFuture.org senior fellow Sara Robinson says. more »
The Case
Why We Call It "The Big Con"
Conservative government during the past few years has failed—even some conservatives acknowledge that. But the problem is not just that conservatism has failed to live up to its promise; it is that conservatism cannot live up to its promisemore »
Conservatism: Flawed By Design
Inherent ideological flaws cripple the ability of conservatives to govern:
Facts & Resources
Investing In People
Here are some basic facts behind our call for "real investment" in people, assembled from recent government and private studies. We've fallen behind as a nation, but making the right spending choices will yield lasting dividends.more »
Banksters Run Amok: The Facts
Financial institutions went on a binge; the cops on the street turned a blind eye. The bankers pocketed billions until the housing bubble burst. Americans are now paying dearly for the folly. Here are some facts you need to know and some ideas for change.more »
The News
Bush to Relax Species Regulations
November 20th, 2008
Toy Makers Fight Lead Safety Rule
November 19th, 2008
The Voices
A Wal-Mart Christmas for a Wal-Mart Country
It is going to be a Wal-Mart Christmas. It is definitely not going to be a General Motors Christmas, because we long ago stopped being a General Motors country. What were we like then? more »
Conservative Identity Crisis
The right is divided into ideological conservatives and dispositional conservatives. The ideological conservatives hold to a faith linking small government and more tax-cutting to extreme social conservatism. They talk obsessively about returning to the glory days of Ronald Reagan and sometimes drop Sarah Palin’s name as a talisman. The dispositional conservatives want to check government’s influence on the economy but not eliminate it. They want solutions that are as unobtrusive as possible, but they do want solutions. The ideological conservatives will hold sway for a while, but the dispositional conservatives will triumph eventually. For the right, there is no alternative. more »
Latest from our Bloggers
nov
20
2008
9:28 am
9:28 am
Turns out the president-elect has been reading Jean Edward Smith's fine biography FDR. An excellent choice—and a strong suggestion that maybe Obama is thinking about this. more »
nov
20
2008
9:00 am
9:00 am
Last week I shared with you the post-election reflections of a listserv I follow of conservative "scholars." I think I'll keep 'em coming. This stuff is too good not to share: more »
nov
19
2008
1:35 pm
1:35 pm
A quick lexicographic note: Seems to me the term "Team of Rivals" is the new euphemism for "bipartisanship," which unto itself has always been a synonym for "buypartisanship" (ie. bipartisan corporatism) and "Broderism" (the principle, championed by Washington Post columnist David Broder, that bipartisanship is an inherent virtue regardless of what it is in pursuit of). more »
nov
19
2008
12:21 pm
12:21 pm
The forces of workplace authoritarianism have gotten far too far with their propaganda that the Employee Free Choice Act, designed to make it easier for workers who want to join a union to do so, only oppose this common-sense reform because it is un-American: that it eliminates the "secret ballot" in unio more »
nov
19
2008
11:11 am
11:11 am
My fine colleague Terrence Heath has been riffing out a new concept to explain the latest turn of our right-wing friends: "drop dead conservatism." As in the infamous 1975 New York Post headline, "Ford To City: Drop Dead," reporting on the 38th president's avowal that he would rather see New York City go bankrupt than approve a bailout more »
nov
18
2008
2:15 pm
2:15 pm
I haven't done much blogging here this week and last, partly because I'm still cogitating upon what the hell really happened to conservatism on November 4, and partly because I've been doing much of that cogitating aloud, on the road, in speeches and panel discussions that obliging souls booked me for long ago on the presumption that I would have something wise and useful to say about "Nixonland" more »
nov
18
2008
12:54 pm
12:54 pm
Seems to me that House and Senate leaders have declared an all-out war on "the Left." In fact, "seems" is the wrong word. It doesn't "seem" like that. They are actually saying it explicitly. more »
nov
16
2008
4:01 pm
4:01 pm
The Hoover Institution is one of the major conservative think tanks in this country, so this op-ed in the Washington Post today is pretty incredible for its honesty: more »
