From TNR, what does Palinspeak mean? Linguist John McWhorter investigates. Polarizing and profane, Andrew Breitbart is fast becoming the most powerful right-wing force on the Web. Glenn Beck gets progressively more paranoid: Fox News’ lunatic fringe, now even loonier. Right Mind: Meet Keith Ablow, Beck’s shrink. Glenn Beck Inc.: In his empire there's the ideology — and then there's the money machine. Partisan Historians: An article on the academics behind the progressivism-as-fascism meme. Identity politics leans Right: In the fight over curriculum, conservatives in Texas have more in common with liberals than they think. Mark Engler on (over)counting the Tea Partiers. Can the Mad Hatters of the Religious Right get an invitation to the Tea Party? Tea partiers don't really hate government spending — they just want in. Tea partiers, eat your hearts out: A group of liberals got together and proved that they, too, can have a tax rebellion, but theirs is a little bit different — they want to pay more taxes. Ryan Grim and Arthur Delaney go inside the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. Ruth Marcus on how President Obama is making nobody happy. A look at why liberals have grown to love Joe Biden. Going after Joe Lieberman: How the Left’s war against one of America’s most famous politicians may have contributed to its undoing. Losing It: Jonathan Chait on political defeat and the Republican mind. A new documentary revisits Thomas Frank's Kansas, but forgets about what's the matter with it (and more). Thomas Frank on conservatives and the cult of victimhood. Are Americans too broken by corporate power to resist? Elite donors are pissed at Democrats — and that's a bad thing? An interview with with Irene Taviss Thomson, author of Culture Wars and Enduring American Dilemmas.
