December 30, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
A newspaper's map of permit holders points a way forward if gun control fails....
November 16, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
GOP: Time to give the Outrage Loop a rest....
November 2, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
When nothing short of the ultimate punishment will do......
October 19, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
Battling Multiple-Choice Mitt might have blunted Obama's Denver debacle....
June 8, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
What if they gave an open primary and nobody came?...
June 1, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
CA-26 is a humdinger of an open primary -- for better and for worse....
May 23, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
A deluge of negative ads may swamp a congressional campaign -- but not necessarily the one that's under attack....
May 16, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
This race is closely watched. If only it were more FUN to watch......
May 9, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
The president's support for gay marriage opens a new front in his battle for re-election -- but its historical importance will reverberate...
May 1, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
Linda Parks won't pick a party or take PAC money. She might win anyway....
April 13, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
A high-stakes congressional race is taking shape in the sleepy L.A. suburbs...
January 5, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
Can Romney ride the radical tigers?...
October 19, 2011• Current Events, Political Culture
Can't the populist right and left just get along?...
October 6, 2011• Current Events, Political Culture
Duh ... Because he gave us what we want....
August 9, 2011• Current Events, Political Culture
How did the Tea Party force a stupid deal, prove itself unfit to govern ... AND simultaneously send the economy over a cliff? Jon Cummings...
March 10, 2011• Current Events, Political Culture
Wednesday's anti-democratic (and anti-Democratic) shenanigans in Wisconsin were just part of a GOP effort to destroy the Democrats' power...
January 20, 2011• Current Events, Political Culture
Conservatives now claim the Constitution as their own -- yet couldn't bring themselves to read it in its entirety on the House floor. Jon...
January 10, 2011• Current Events, Political Culture
Can taking the vitriol down a notch really prevent another tragedy like Tucson? Jon Cummings explores the state of our discourse - and his...
December 9, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
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...
November 4, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
Chastened by Jon Stewart, if not the midterm election results, Jon Cummings invites Popdose readers to Be Their Own Pundits and pontificate...
October 14, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
As a disastrous new show stumbles toward Broadway and "Glee" rebounds from its worst episode, can issues of religious belief inspire decent...
October 1, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
Katy Perry's aborted Sesame Street appearance launched a short-lived kerfuffle, but offers a neat allegory for explaining the idiocy...
August 5, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
Now is the summer of our discontent … arriving on the heels of a spring, winter, autumn and previous summer that roiled in similar...
May 27, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
Americans' loathing for politicians has reached historic levels -- and as Jon Cummings discovered, a squalid local race in one California...
April 15, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
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...
March 25, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
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...
March 18, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
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...
February 18, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
The most thrilling, and also the most ridiculous, presidential speech of modern times came not from an actual president, but from a fake...
February 11, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
Just in time for last weekend’s National Tea Party convention – an event which will be remembered mostly for the way Sarah Palin had...
January 21, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
Whether or not Democrats manage to salvage health care legislation, losing Ted Kennedy's seat is just desserts for their substantive and...
