Month: October 2010

We got a call today from an OFA staffer in Washington DC who told us that she saw the Manan Trivedi lawn sign in our yard yesterday. Apparently, she grew up on our street and was home visiting. It’s a small world....

Why does Gerald Seib sound surprised? The upshot is one of the great political ironies of the year: A national conservative wave will hit hardest not at the most liberal Democrats, but at the most conservative Democrats. The...

I just started re-reading The Plot Against Against America by Phillip Roth last night. It’s a frightening alternative history in which Lindbergh defeats FDR for President in 1940 and institutes a fascist US government that...

Clarence Thomas was 33 years-old when he went to work at the Department of Education, and he was 34 years-old when he went to work at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He was 42 years-old when he was appointed to the...

In early October, CQ Politics laid out three scenarios for the how the midterms might turn out. All of them were painful to contemplate. Essentially the scenarios were ‘catastrophically bad,’ ‘unthinkably bad,...