Month: March 2014

When we, as consumers of news, look at poll results on public policies or laws, we don’t actually want to know if they are popular or unpopular. That information, by itself, is useless. If we’re primarily concerned...

I spent my day editing, primarily these two pieces, both of which are interesting in their own ways. I finally have my head above water and I have to head out for a meeting tonight. I apologize for the inattention. Did anything...

I don’t want to exaggerate Erick Erickson’s influence over the Republican base, but he does seem emblematic of their general view on many topics. And he’s trying to gin up a civil war within the GOP. In...

Christopher Orr, Spencer Kornhaber and Amy Sullivan are some very hard to please people. The latter two also made a very basic error. They tried to solve the case in HBO’s True Detective and then were disappointed that all...

Feud over Kiev sniper carnage, Washington Post uses MP Morkal as source KIEV, Ukraine (AP/WaPo)— One of the biggest mysteries hanging over the protest mayhem that drove Ukraine’s president from power: Who was behind the snipers...