Bob Dylan’s new album comes out on September 11th, 2012. But most of the first song has just come out as a soundtrack for a promo for Cinemax’s Strike Back series.
Check it out after the jump … Read More
One of the greatest sins in our politics today is the way one party (the Republicans) has aggressively moved to disenfranchise voters who predominantly vote for the other party (the Democrats). (It’s one of the abiding and perhaps most significant results of the 2010 mid-term election.) As I said late last month, it’s the closest you get in democratic politics to mortal sin. The undeniable fact is that voter impersonation fraud (the only thing voter ID laws protect against) is extraordinarily rare in the United States, verging on non-existent. And the evidence is incontrovertible that large numbers of people are prevented from voting because of it. Read More
Rep. Mike Kelly says the new contraception mandate that came into effect today is like 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
How do the polls say President Obama and Mitt Romney stack up on foreign policy? Here’s your answer.
Romney’s tax plan raises taxes on 95 percent of Americans, according to a new study from the Brookings Institution and the Tax Policy Center. Read More
The TPM Electoral Scoreboard moves to Obama 310, Romney 191 as new Quinnipiac/NYT/CBS poll nudges Florida from Toss-Up to Leans Obama.
I’m usually very reluctant to ascribe deeper meaning to silly gaffes and made-for-TV stumbles by politicians because most of the time no deeper meaning exists. Period. Shit happens. Stupid shit happens a lot.
But two things make Mitt’s Grand Gaffe Tour an exception to this rule. Read More
A glimpse into how an active duty soldier stationed overseas gets hooked up with militant white supremacists back home.
Philly mayor to TPM about Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law: “This is one of the most frustrating, confusing, and — at the moment at least — poorly implemented solutions to a problem that we’re not even sure what it is.”