Tom Watson

Today’s unemployment numbers should have splashed all that talk of “green shoots” with economic Weed-B-Gone, as the official job deficit rolls toward 10 percent in our midnight garden of…

This week’s Personal Democracy Forum in New York was the sixth annual confab of social media geeks, government 2.0 types, non-profit changemakers and digital dreamers of all shapes…

I know he’s committed the financial crime of the young century, but I still find some of vengeance porn around the Bernie Madoff sentencing a bit off-putting. There’s a bloodthirsty quality to…

For all the glamor and scandal and just plain weirdness surrounding Michael Jackson and his strange surgical Neverland life, the man’s musical output in the post Jackson 5 years was spotty - a…

Regular commenter weboy takes on the public option in the healthcare debate, and makes some good points:

Michael Tomasky has it exactly right in the Guardian: “What time is it? Simple. It’s time this week for Barack Obama to start banging some heads in Congress.”

Crank up the Motörhead, aim that…

By now, the refrain against public healthcare in the United States is numbingly familiar. A government-funded insurance counterpart to the private system is a “slippery slope” that will take us…