Month: August 2014

Megan McArdle is a dunce. Imagine, if you will, that Hillary Clinton had become president in 2009 instead of Barack Obama. Now imagine that she tried to implement the health care plan she ran on. She would have been dependent on...

Jason Zengerle has written a really important piece for The New Republic about what has happened politically in the Deep South over the past decade, and particularly since the 2010 elections. It mainly focuses on the state...

One of my early memories is of my mother taking me to East Windsor, New Jersey to visit a friend. She did this from time to time. I remember that she took me there on Opening Day in 1976, which was the day the world finally got...

Let’s have some more Bowie. Hard to top that. Bowie says he wrote it because he could barely believe he had survived his drug-taking binges and come out on the other side.

The best way of looking at the midterm elections is to understand that the Democrats have huge disadvantages that threaten to overwhelm the fact that people dislike the Republicans intensely and narrowly prefer to have the...