Thomas Frank in What's the Matter with Kansas: Not long ago, Kansas would have responded to the current situation by making the bastards pay. This would have been a political certainty, as predictable as what happens when you touch a match to a puddle of gasoline. When business screwed the farmers a...

AUSTIN, July 20 -- "Yep, the way it's looking, we might actually win this thing . . ."...

AUSTIN, July 20 -- "Yep, the way it's looking, we might actually win this thing . . ."...

The media might not be overly concerned with presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama's incessant campaign flip-flops, but the leader of the Netroots, Daily Kos proprietor Markos Moulitsas, is so disturbed by the junior senator's recent changes of heart that he has decided to hold back...

The proprietor of Daily Kos must be very concerned with John McCain being able to beat Barack Obama in November, for Markos Moulitsas on Thursday actually stooped to picking on the color of the Arizona senator's teeth. I kid you not. The truly delicious denouement is that Kos's followers seem largel...

A typical liberal white male DailyKos blogger. --- "Our challenge is to get the typical rich white liberal person to pretend that he or she gives a shit about poverty in America and to act like we can make progress on poverty in America when there’s no historical evidence, of course, that rich whi...

A growing number of Daily Kos diarists are leaving the Daily Kos blog in a protest over the blog's increasingly negative treatment of Hillary Clinton. A post by Alegre kicked off the writer's strike. You can read Allegre's post here on Taylor Marsh's blog, here on MyDD and here on the Daily Kos webs...

Does the hatred in the Netroots know no bounds? In 2006, one of their leaders posted a picture of Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) in black face. On Tuesday, one of the "Recommended Diaries" at Daily Kos featured a picture of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a Gestapo uniform (right) un...