This is a guest post by New America Foundation/Economic Growth Program policy director Michael Lind. Lind recently authored for Salon, “Obama’s Timid Liberalism“. Infrastructure investment and other themes related to the question, “What Will Replace the American Consumer?” will be discussed at the 1st Bernard L.
On CNN’s State of the Union show, John King just missed the key zinger statement made by Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer.
I really wish I had been invited to the annual Gridiron Dinner — but wasn’t.
The C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, of which I’m a board member, and the National Portrait Gallery are sponsoring an afternoon discussion today with filmmaker John Waters. Waters will reflect on Cy Twombly’s “Letter of Resignation.
The Washington Times’ omnipresent Potus Notes political and foreign policy blogger Jon Ward did a very nice write-up of some parts of a “blogger breakfast session” that I hosted this morning with Mark Schmitt, editor of The American Prospect.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow invited former State Department Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson on to her show last night to discuss his recent blog post on The Washington Note titled “Some Truths About Guantanamo Bay“.
Darwin the Alligator lives in the lagoon under my friend Kate Brown’s deck in Hilton Head. Lovely.
It has slightly bothered me that the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project grabbed some Hamilton branding for ideas that were anything but.
Kirby Dick, the Academy Award nominated film director for This Film Is Not Yet Rated, will soon be releasing a new film on the hypocrisy of in-the-closet gay politicians and the lengths Washington will go to help protect them even as they vote and legislate against equal rights and protections for gay and lesbian Americans….
Many thanks to friends and fellow bloggers at TWN for covering for me this last week as I was away traveling and offline. I am back in Miami today — heading back to Washington, DC this morning. More soon.
