It would be nice if our political discourse could be rational enough to actually accept the science that says Obama’s historic oil production increas… - David Sirota

Lots of progressives have legit criticism of Obama’s policy record. Much of the response to that criticism has been “Democratic voters love Obama, so anyone criticizing him is politically dumb!”

Almost everyone else on the #DemDebate stage: health care is a human right, but we won't do anything to truly guarantee that right.

Chavez became the bugaboo of American politics because his full-throated advocacy of socialism and redistributionism at once represented a fundamental critique of neoliberal economics, and also delivered some indisputably positive results. Indeed, as shown by some of the most significant indicators, Chavez racked up an economic record that a legacy-obsessed American president could only dream of achieving.