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  • Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9am ET!

    20 May 2013, 8:30 am

    Daily Kos Radio's Kagro in the Morning show podcasts are now available through iTunes.…
  • Cheers and Jeers: Monday

    20 May 2013, 8:17 am

    From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE……
  • Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Karen Handel to run for Senate in Georgia

    20 May 2013, 8:00 am

    Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here.…
  • Abbreviated pundit round-up: A few real scandals to mix with the fake ones

    20 May 2013, 7:30 am

    Matthew Rothschild at The Progressive writes House Republicans say no free lunch for poor kids:…
  • Open thread for night owls: Austerity and debt wreck lives of working American families

    19 May 2013, 11:30 pm

    The following excerpt, via Alternet, comes from Robert Kuttner's new book, Debtors' Prison, titled Austerity and Debt Conspire to Wreck the Lives of Working American Families:“Living within one’s means” is an appealing but oversimplified metaphor. Before…
  • Big-thinking Cato Institute: 400ppm haz got what plants crave

    19 May 2013, 9:45 pm

    Whatever keeps the checks coming, I guess…
  • Life back in the canopy

    19 May 2013, 8:00 pm

    "Room with a View," copyright by climber-photographer Greg Epperson. Used here with his permission. Click image for more breathtaking climbing shots at Greg's homepage.…
  • Welcome to the Darrell Issa Hall of Shame

    19 May 2013, 6:15 pm

    With Washington engulfed in scandals real and imagined over the Benghazi tragedy, the IRS' handling of applications by political groups for tax exempt status and the Justice Department's seizure of AP phone records, California Congressman Darrell Issa is…
  • The most vulnerable House members in 2014, in two charts

    19 May 2013, 4:29 pm

    Jim Matheson (UT-04), most vulnerable Democrat…
  • Midday open thread

    19 May 2013, 3:30 pm

    Google's Sergey Brin wears some scary lookin ish.…
  • The hard lessons of the post-partisan unity schtick

    19 May 2013, 2:15 pm

    Ezra Klein recently wrote a piece imagining President Obama going Bulworth, including this pretend exchange:Q: Sir, you've been criticized in recent weeks for being overly passive. And as you say here, it's your view the government isn't doing enough on the…
  • Climate change isn't AN issue, it's THE issue

    19 May 2013, 12:30 pm

    Home…
  • Republican outreach report card: Graded 'F' for Fail

    19 May 2013, 10:45 am

    Students holding report cards…
  • The next biggest scandal ever, until the next one

    19 May 2013, 9:00 am

    Yes, Mitch McConnell. IRS bureaucrats targeting "tea party"-related groups is a conspiracy. Everything is a conspiracy. Everything is a conspiracy meant to distract from all the other conspiracies, and everything is orchestrated by the top mastermind of all…
  • Abreviated Pundit Round-up

    19 May 2013, 3:11 am

    The New York Times adds its voice to the chorus crying out for action on climate change.…
  • Sunday Talk: You read it here first

    19 May 2013, 12:00 am

    When Bob Woodward publishes the definitive history of Barack Obama's second term (maybe sooner rather than later), this will be presented as the week that Politico pwned the news cycle—and the president lost the village.…
  • Donald Rumsfeld has written an advice book. Oh, yay.

    18 May 2013, 6:30 pm

    Winning.…
  • Open thread: Cato, outreach and shame

    18 May 2013, 6:00 pm

    What's coming up on Sunday Kos ...…
  • Green diary rescue: Pedal power, electric cars, OFA on climate change

    18 May 2013, 4:00 pm

    Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 226 of these…
  • This week in the war on voting: North Carolina 'ground zero' in voter suppression fight

    18 May 2013, 3:30 pm

    This week in the war on voting is a joint project of Joan McCarter and Meteor Blades.…
  • Midday open thread

    18 May 2013, 3:00 pm

    You people...rock! Since Markos announced our endorsement of Virginia state senate candidate Evandra Thompson over Liebermanesque turn-coat Rosalyn Dance, more than three hundred of you have donated more than $8,000 (quadrupling her cash on hand). More and…
  • This week in the War on Workers: California hospital workers to strike

    18 May 2013, 1:55 pm

    Workers at the University of California hospital system are planning a two-day strike to protest inadequate staffing levels, increased use of temp workers, and changes to their pension plan, though the university announced Friday that the California Public…
  • Saturday morning nutpick: if this is post-racial America...

    18 May 2013, 1:00 pm

    Today's source material:…
  • Animal Nuz #149

    18 May 2013, 11:00 am

  • This week in the world of progressive state blogs: No epidurals in Alabama, expanding Medicaid

    18 May 2013, 11:00 am

    Each Saturday, this feature links and excerpts commentary and reporting from a dozen progressive state blogs in the past seven days around the nation. The idea is not only to spotlight specific issues but to give readers who may not know their state has a…
  • Obama focuses on middle-class concerns in weekly address

    18 May 2013, 10:00 am

    Coming off a week of media-fed outrage over several "scandals" (IRS, Benghazi, AP), President Obama focused this morning's weekly address back on jobs, progress and the middle class—just as he did when he spoke yesterday in Baltimore. His focus:There are…
  • This week in science: Common census

    18 May 2013, 9:00 am

    Climate Consensus image via Skeptical Science, click image for more data and details.…
  • Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: New IRS charges by conservatives don't measure up

    18 May 2013, 7:30 am

    Peggy Noonan:…
  • Open thread for night owls: Stephen Lerner on breaking Wall Street's grip

    17 May 2013, 11:30 pm

    Greg Kauffman has, for a long time, been focused on poverty issues, a subject that rarely arouses much concern in the stenographic media but matters a great deal to tens of millions of Americans directly affected by it. What follows is the introduction and…
  • Conservative Monkey Seance Theater Roundup

    17 May 2013, 10:20 pm

    Winning!…

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