Month: November 2014

In the November/December issue of the Washington Monthly, Judith Warner of the Center for American Progress has a piece on the importance of passing national paid family leave legislation. Parents are more involved in their...

That Ann Althouse can’t stand Bruce Springsteen is refreshing. It irritates me when people manage to ignore Bruce’s lyrics and message to the degree that they can dance along deliriously with the music despite the...

I couldn’t get past the first sentence of Josh Kraushaar’s piece on The Rise of the Republican Pragmatists without balking. It at once indicated the trouble that was coming and made me want to break out my...

    Imagine the American public as a big mixed-breed dog.  (That was easy, wasn’t it?)  This dog had been treated poorly by its master for years, if not outright abused.  Other dogs, especially...

Mitch McConnell and Joe Manchin can take this, pack it in their pipes, smoke it, and dump the ashes in the Elk River so their constituents can get a clue. BEIJING — China and the United States made common cause on Wednesday...