Diana C. Mutz (Penn): Effects of “In-Your-Face” Television Discourse on Perceptions of a Legitimate Opposition. From Popper to Rove — and back: George Soros on how, despite evidence that misrepresenting the truth for political ends backfires, the American public remains susceptible. More on The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America by Ronald Brownstein. Will the real Generation Obama please stand up? Generation X, long forgotten, is toiling in the trenches and changing the face of progressive politics. They can't win: Democrats in Congress are criticized for being both unprincipled and uncompromising. Have Democrats lost their liberal spirit? An excerpt from Bruce Miroff's The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party. An interview with Jimmy Carter on Jonathan Demme's "Jimmy Carter Man From Plains". The trouble with limited government: Why even Reagan couldn't stop spending from skyrocketing — and what to do about it. Johann Hari reviews Jonathan Chait's The Big Con. A fiscal tsunami: David Walker, head of the Government Accountability Office, warns of a coming catastrophe. An interview with Bush strategist Matthew Dowd, who helped win the White House but now views the administration with a mixture of anguish and contempt. Peter Berkowitz on the insanity of Bush hatred: Our politics suffer when passions overcome reason and vitriol becomes virtue (and a response by Glenn Greenwald). Joel Surnow, creator of "24", says conservatives who lament the ideological bias in Hollywood need to stop acting like liberals. A look at the movie that tells us how politics really works in our democracy.
