Katha Pollitt: Happy New Year!

[from the January 22, 2007 issue]

It's only January 2 as I write, and I've already broken my New Year's resolutions. (Exercise! Keep diary! Be better person! [Start column earlier!--Ed.]) You'd think I'd learn--these are the same self-improvement projects I swore fealty to last year, and the year before (and before), with the same results. But enough about me and my slothful ways--how about some resolutions for liberals? For example: