The Contrarian Progressive

I was rather surprised to see the " Military Chiefs Resign en Masse " headline on BBC. In the past such symbolic moves were cons...

According to the liberal New York Times, terrorism applies only to acts committed by Muslims. As JackinStL over at Daily Kos noted: Put th...

The other day I saw this post on Balloon Juice  Weimar on the Potomac  and I had a light-bulb-above-my-head moment. In the post, Tom Leven...

The last couple of weeks were interesting, not just for the obvious Guardian taking down the Evil Empire but also, for rating agencies asse...

Standard and Poor, one of the rating agencies that gleefully  rubber stamped toxic assets as AAA grade investment vehicles for years, has d...

When I started this blog, my main goal was to provide an alternative framework to inane explanations like Secretary Rice's 2005 freedom ...

When I wrote that the whole debate on Greek debt sits on a bedrock of ideology or to put it more academically, on a paradigmatic fight abou...