Month: April 2010

How Did We Get Here?

In part, the new Brookings Institution report on party polarization by William Galston doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know. The two parties haven’t been this divided since Reconstruction. The current...

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Frivolous Friday Open Thread

Anyone remember Disco Demolition Day? I was brought up to believe that Disco sucked, too. But I was so wrong. It was the only rational response to double-digit interest rates.

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FL-Sen: Why We’ll Win

Yesterday Governor Crist made the decision to run as a No Party Affiliation candidate for U.S. Senate. This put me in a commanding position to be the next Senator from Florida. Governor Crist’s decision to run as an...

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1,000 Words About Rwanda

Crossposted from BorderJumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. We’ve taken some long bus rides in Africa. We spent eight bumpy hours on a bus from Nairobi to Arusha and another eight from Arusha to Dar Es Salaam....

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