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...Hindus) feel unwelcome. Procedurally, the Mumbai name change is a lot less problematic than, say, Burma to Myanmar (as Kevin Drum notes). But we shouldn't only evaluate on procedure. In his excellent book The Multiculturalism of Fear (amazon, PDF of the...
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Earlier this week
...the subject of Hillary Clinton being chosen as/agreeing to be Obama’s Secretary of State, Kevin Drum, of Mother Jones, promised a couple of weeks ago that he would “eat my hat if it turns out to be true.” And here, via some cake-and-icing-and-M&M...
...approach of stability ops ultimately replacing the Westphalian strategic approach to addressing global problems. Finally, Kevin Drum professes his lack of "chops" to properly weigh in on the matter, a sure sign that he's about to land a haymaker, which...
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...winger sites, and thus far, it has not presented itself. Ideology in spades. Other than that, nothing. Steve Benen quoted Kevin Drum: "Global warming and skyrocketing income inequality are problems that didn't even exist in 1980, which means there is no...
...Drum asks when Obama will start engaging in the public persuasion he'll need to sell the progressive planks in his campaign platform, since he mostly didn't campaign hard on them. Mostly, Kevin's analysis (which focuses on cap-and-trade and greenhouse...
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