Month: March 2016

Conservatives like to talk about “the liberal media” and they frequently disparage the Washington Post as a liberal paper. I’ve never agreed with them, and I have an example that helps explain why. Between...

We’re already seeing people try to report on what a contested convention in Cleveland would look like. It’s a tricky task. Getting it close to right involves understanding several different pieces. Greg Sargent is...

The next time someone tells you that both sides do it…

Curious because, with one exception, it’s not intuitively obvious. From 2000 through 2012, there have been twelve Presidential and four Vice-Presidential nationally televised debates.  What  interested me was the...

We had another Democratic debate last night, and we have another one coming up on Wednesday, and the GOP has another one coming this Thursday. The GOP has had over a dozen debates while the Democrats are not that far behind. My...