Lost in this clip from the 1958 movie "Teacher's Pet" is the class war embedded in the plot. Clark Gable (right) plays a newspaper editor who considers journalism a trade, Doris Day a journalism professor who considers it a profession. In the end Gable's boss is flattered and the two sides compromis...

Breaking news. Talking Points Memo is reporting this afternoon that progressive blogger Brian Beutler was shot and critically injured in a mugging in Adams Morgan, Washington, D.C. Brian was critically injured but is expected to make a complete recovery. He was a project director for Media Consortiu...

The political media is catching up with something I first wrote over a year ago. The Republican Party is the Party of Hoover. Herbert Hoover may be the most fascinating failed President in all American history. (Even more so than Millard Fillmore.) Not only did he dominate the late Progressive era, ...

We don't like being talked down to. (This is actually a marketing talk, by Seth Godin, done at Google, but it's worth listening to whatever business you're in. Notice that he's not talking down to anyone.) The reason the Obama "bitter" deal hasn't hurt him is the same reason the "Jeremiah Wright" de...