Month: June 2014

My blogging is going to be very light over the next few days because I am going to try to put the Washington Monthly magazine online, and everything is new to me. Plus, we’re on a tight schedule. So, please forgive my...

Of all the unhealthy developments in this country, I think the following is the most depressing: As partisan divisions solidify, the [Democratic] party’s electoral chances increasingly depend on turning out its core...

Mark Kleiman does the thankless job of explaining to us just how monumentally clueless both Maureen Dowd and Ann Althouse are about cannabis, its legalization and non-legalization, its effects, and its risks. One thing that...

My suggestion is that people start using a catchy hashtag, something like #nowimgonnavote, every time they see the Republicans do or say something outrageously stupid or insensitive. We need a viral campaign to turn people out...

I don’t think it is going to help Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal become president to do a cameo appearance on next season’s Duck Dynsaty program. People of color and decent white people simply won’t tolerate a...