NY-23 Rematch
Doug Hoffman says he'll run again in New York's 23rd district next November.

Had Your Turkey; Now Have Your Tea
Like the Summer of Love (1967) forty-two years ago, we'll be remembering and no doubt historians will be writing about the Summer of Crazy (2009) for years to come. Whether aging Tea Partiers will be having reunions to get nostalgic in 2050 is another question. But we've assembled our Top Ten Right-Wing Crazy Protest moments for your Thanksgiving viewing pleasure.

In Honor of the Other Turkeys
We humbly offer our thanks to the 10 most gonzoid, bamboozling, dignity-impaired political figures of the moment.

Devil's Advocate
Here's the most thought-provoking and perhaps most important piece I've seen written on the Public Option. And it was written back in June. (Here's a follow-up debate on the argument advanced in the linked article.) When I first focused on the public plan proposals back in the spring what was never clear to me was why, far from gobbling up the whole private insurance market, it wouldn't become a dumping ground for all the sick people the insurance companies can't make a profit insuring. That is especially the ca

We Thank(ful) You
As you can see, we're featuring our Top Ten Reader Tips We're Thankful For. But I wanted to take this opportunity to thank our regular readers for you continued tips, support, readership and helpful critiques over the course of this year. It's been an exciting and intense year for us. Our audience continues to grow -- actually more this year than last year. And for the first time we have stood up a four-person TPM Washington Bureau. And we expect to notch that number up to five in the near future. We've got a number of new projects we're working on that we'll