Political Culture: If Laws Can’t Curb Guns, How About Shame?
A newspaper's map of permit holders points a way forward if gun control fails....
Category "Political Culture"
Political Culture: Lose Your Delusion
GOP: Time to give the Outrage Loop a rest....
10 Reasons The G.O.P. Deserves The ‘Death Penalty’
When nothing short of the ultimate punishment will do......
Political Culture: Running Against the Wrong Romney?
Battling Multiple-Choice Mitt might have blunted Obama's Denver debacle....
Democracy Is Coming(?): Money Talks, Voters Walk
What if they gave an open primary and nobody came?...
Democracy Is Coming: “Good Government” Gone Bad?
CA-26 is a humdinger of an open primary -- for better and for worse....
Democracy Is Coming: When Democrats Attack!
A deluge of negative ads may swamp a congressional campaign -- but not necessarily the one that's under attack....
Democracy Is Coming!: The Imperfect Candidates
This race is closely watched. If only it were more FUN to watch......
Political Culture: Obama (Finally) Marries Reality
The president's support for gay marriage opens a new front in his battle for re-election -- but its historical importance will reverberate far longer....
Democracy Is Coming!: How One Candidate’s Declaration of Independence Might Shake Up Congress
Linda Parks won't pick a party or take PAC money. She might win anyway....
Political Culture: Democracy is Coming! (part 1)
A high-stakes congressional race is taking shape in the sleepy L.A. suburbs...
SOPA and PIPA Aren’t Going Away (and neither are their opponents)
The bills have been shelved, but is that the end?...
Political Culture: The GOP’s Identity Crisis
Can Romney ride the radical tigers?...
Political Culture: Teabag Wall Street!
Can't the populist right and left just get along?...
Political Culture: Why We Care About Steve Jobs
Duh ... Because he gave us what we want....
Political Culture: America – Too Big To Fail?
How did the Tea Party force a stupid deal, prove itself unfit to govern ... AND simultaneously send the economy over a cliff? Jon Cummings spots the jokers in the...
Political Culture: A “Permanent Majority,” or Totalitarianism?
Wednesday's anti-democratic (and anti-Democratic) shenanigans in Wisconsin were just part of a GOP effort to destroy the Democrats' power base nationwide. Can they succeed? Jon Cummings says, definitely maybe....
Political Culture: Absolutism Sucks! (Relatively Speaking)
Conservatives now claim the Constitution as their own -- yet couldn't bring themselves to read it in its entirety on the House floor. Jon Cummings examines the flaws of Tea...
Political Culture: We Have Met the Enemy, and They Are Us
Can taking the vitriol down a notch really prevent another tragedy like Tucson? Jon Cummings explores the state of our discourse - and his own culpability....
Political Culture: Greetings, Fellow Hostages!
President Obama may have given up the store on tax cuts this week, but at least he coined a useful metaphor in the process. Still, is it the GOP holding...
Political Culture: Everybody Into The Conflictinator!
Chastened by Jon Stewart, if not the midterm election results, Jon Cummings invites Popdose readers to Be Their Own Pundits and pontificate on our new politics....
Political Culture: How to Take a “Leap of Faith” … and Fall Flat on Your Ass
As a disastrous new show stumbles toward Broadway and "Glee" rebounds from its worst episode, can issues of religious belief inspire decent musical theatre? Jon Cummings has his doubts....
Political Culture: Americans, Running Hot N Cold
Katy Perry's aborted Sesame Street appearance launched a short-lived kerfuffle, but offers a neat allegory for explaining the idiocy of the current political climate. Jon Cummings considers the merits of...
Political Culture: The Not-So-Great Society
Now is the summer of our discontent … arriving on the heels of a spring, winter, autumn and previous summer that roiled in similar fashion. Americans, it seems, have declared...
Political Culture: All Politics Is Local (Unfortunately)
Americans' loathing for politicians has reached historic levels -- and as Jon Cummings discovered, a squalid local race in one California county justifies their disdain....
Political Culture: Reasons to Be Hopeful (Or Not) on Tax Day
Happy Tax Day! A special shout-out to those of you who are operating under the delusion that your taxes have gone up this year – a belief shared by a...
Political Culture: Partisan Bipartisanship
A couple of extraordinary things happened this past week. One was a big f’ing deal indeed, but the other was a bit more personal. As Sunday night’s Democratic victory on...
Political Culture: How To Train Your Teafoxlican
We’re supposedly just three days away from the final House votes on health care, and still nobody’s sure how it’s going to go. If you listen to Fox News, there’s...
Political Culture: Let Obama Be Bartlet (Or at Least Bush)
The most thrilling, and also the most ridiculous, presidential speech of modern times came not from an actual president, but from a fake one. Michael Douglas’ off-the-cuff remarks at the...
Political Culture: Those Condescending Elites!
Just in time for last weekend’s National Tea Party convention – an event which will be remembered mostly for the way Sarah Palin had her devotees eating (and the rest...
