The right's sugar daddies

The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party - The New York Times

Covert Operations - The New Yorker

Poll: nearly 50% of Republicans can't distingush facts from bullshit

Building a Nation of Know-Nothings - The New York Times

Betraying Petraeus

How Fox Betrayed Petraeus - The New York Times

The congregants must be crazy

Appeasing the Bond Gods - The New York Times

A Missouri Compromise for our times

Why the GOP Really Wants to Alter the 14th Amendment - Washington Post

When conservatives were sane

Gates's Lonely Battle to Rationalize the Pentagon - Washington Post

Never mind the arithmetic

Attacking Social Security - The New York Times

LATE ADDITION: Making Social Security Less Generous Isn't the Answer - Washington Post

Blame it on Reagan

The Jobs Crisis: What Hit Us? - Huffington Post

LATE ADDITION: Disincentivizing Greed - LA Times

Why they fight

Some insightful and largely balanced observations from a Cato Institute (!) VP.

Traditional and Liberal Conservatism - FiveBooks

This explains a lot

The Power Trip - The Wall Street Journal

On the road to nowhere

America Goes Dark - The New York Times

Guess who

Who Rules America? - Ucsc.edu

A classic article, just updated.

The wrong argument

Another Culture War? No Thanks - The American Prospect

Ideology vs. truth

The Auto Industry Lives. Can We Admit that Government Intervention Worked? - Washington Post

The usual suspects

Who Cooked the Planet? - The New York Times

Stupid is as stupid does

In American Politics, Stupidity Is the Name of the Game - Washington Post

The recovery is being devoured by corporate snouts

A Sin and a Shame - The New York Times

LATE ADDITIONS: Jobs in the Cards? - Washington Post

The Job Machine Grinds to a Halt - Washington Post