James Fallows

Here's a round up of how the liberal blogosphere saw the debate last night. Not so good for Obama: Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic: I think that was pretty bad performance by Obama and an excellent one by Romney. This is exactly what Republicans wanted. Not to refer back to ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Oct 4, 2012

James Fallows on the President's job speech: On both politics and substance, the President positioned himself in the only tenable way for the next months' deliberations with the Congress and next year's election campaign. Instead of asking vaguely for "consensus" or seeming ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Sep 9, 2011