Month: November 2012

By now you’ve all heard the story that a middle-aged white man, Michael Dunn, visiting Jacksonville, Florida, for his son’s wedding, shot “at least 8 shots” at four African American teenagers in an SUV...

It does not appear that John Boehner is even attempting to exert any leadership on his caucus. I’m trying to figure out the right analogy to describe his approach. It’s kind of like he’s the first lemming to...

Obama has boxed in congressional republicans. Slightly more cutting edge party members see that their options are bad and worse. In these cases, lowering the stakes and ending the standoff as quickly as possible is called for....

Stuart Stevens served as Mitt Romney’s chief strategist during the campaign. He has taken a lot of blame for the shortcomings of Romney’s effort, but he took to the Washington Post to defend himself, Gov. Romney, and...

The House Republican leadership announced the committee heads for next year’s Congress yesterday and somewhat unsurprisingly there were no women or racial minorities in the group. Let’s compare this to the Democrats....