Monday, April 29, 2013

Can’t we all just not get along?

By Marty Kaplan

Maybe the problem with Washington isn’t that there’s too little comity – there’s too much.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

An apple for the Apple

By Marty Kaplan

I ain’t letting no computer grade this column. No way.

Monday, April 1, 2013

Daddy’s Been Arrested

By Marty Kaplan

The final inch of the story turned me into an emotional puddle.

Monday, March 18, 2013

The bartender who rescued America

By Marty Kaplan

Prouty, we learned last week, is the 38-year old bartender who videotaped the $50,000-a-plate Boca Raton fundraiser where Mitt Romney wrote off 47. . .

Monday, March 4, 2013

Supermarkets say: Please don’t buy the dreck we sell

By Marty Kaplan

I couldn’t believe my eyes. I was in a Minneapolis branch of Byerly’s, an upscale grocery chain in Minnesota. Scanning the aisles for a small. . .

Monday, February 18, 2013

How to avoid meteors

By Marty Kaplan

NASA scientists say that meteor explosions like the one last week injuring 1,200 people in Chelyabinsk, Siberia, are 100-year events. The last time a. . .

Monday, February 4, 2013

Being American is bad for your health

By Marty Kaplan

“Americans are sicker and die younger than people in other wealthy nations.”

Monday, January 21, 2013

Opinion: The Post-Kumbaya President

By Marty Kaplan

Four years ago, while Democrats danced at inaugural balls, Reps. Cantor and Ryan dined at The Caucus Room, a Capitol Hill steakhouse, along with. . .

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

The future of technology: Fear of fun

By Marty Kaplan

Some day not all that far in the future, a new kind of entertainment is going to be perfected that will either be the coolest video game ever or the. . .

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Fear of fun

By Marty Kaplan

Some day not all that far in the future, a new kind of entertainment is going to be perfected that will either be the coolest video game ever, or the. . .

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Sandy Hook, Sandy and the politics of learned helplessness

By Marty Kaplan

"We have got to get Michelle to make this her priority."

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Two, three, many Grover Norquists

By Marty Kaplan

So Grover Norquist turns out to be a colossus with feet of clay.

Monday, November 19, 2012

GOP smart on copyright for 24 hours

By Marty Kaplan

They threw Derek Khanna under the bus. On Friday afternoon, the Republican Study Committee – the House caucus that promulgates right-wing. . .

Monday, November 5, 2012

My Chris Christie hypocrisy

By Marty Kaplan

I was against Chris Christie before I was before him. If Obama wins, when all the exit polling gets sorted through, it’s those images of the. . .

Thursday, October 18, 2012

What do (suburban) women want?

By Marty Kaplan

If you watched any of the debates on CNN, you saw two worms at the bottom of your screen. Well, they looked to me like worms, or maybe caterpillars,. . .

Thursday, October 4, 2012

How to lose the next debate

By Marty Kaplan

A couple of weeks ago, when I wrote a “Romney Wins First Debate” column, I didn’t think I was going out on a limb. Obama’s re-election was. . .

Monday, September 24, 2012

Marty Kaplan: Romney wins first debate

By Marty Kaplan

If the media-industrial complex obeys its usual laws of supply and demand, the political headlines over the next four weeks are fairly predictable:. . .

Friday, September 7, 2012

Dreaming of a wave election

By Marty Kaplan

What just happened in American politics is not just that Charlotte mopped the floor with Tampa. It’s that Democrats connected with the country. . .

Monday, August 27, 2012

Romney/Ryan and the lullaby of lying

By Marty Kaplan

It shouldn't have taken Todd Akin's crackpot contraception comment to alert us that Paul Ryan thinks rape is just another "method of conception."

Monday, July 30, 2012

How to ignore the campaign

By Marty Kaplan

Congratulations. You’re about to prevent hundreds of hours of your life from going down the rat hole between now and Election Day.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Why Kim loves Disney

By Marty Kaplan

Until I saw 16 hot North Korean chicks singing “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” to Kim Jong-un, the strangest video that I’d ever seen of a head of state. . .

Monday, July 2, 2012

Ambushed by optimism

By Marty Kaplan

Twice in the past few weeks, my train of thought has been hijacked by hope. I am not by nature pessimistic. But for a while now my mood about. . .

Monday, June 18, 2012

The end is nigh. Seriously.

By Marty Kaplan

In countless cartoons, there’s a guy in a robe and long beard who’s walking around carrying a sign saying The End Is Nigh. The joke is that. . .

Monday, June 4, 2012

God loves David Brooks

By Marty Kaplan

The trouble with kids these days, writes New York Times columnist David Brooks, is that they convert “moral... questions about how to be” into. . .