Month: September 2016

I think there’s some irrational exuberance in Peter Beinart’s latest piece in The Atlantic. Certainly the headline (The Death of ‘He Said, She Said’ Journalism) goes too far. It’s nice that the New...

And update on state polling: So there has been a 5 point swing in the 5 day.  Part of this is just better polling for Clinton: PA +*8 (3 point swing from ’12, implies 6.85 lead national lead) MN +6 (-1.5, implies...

VPRO, the only Dutch television producing social motivated documentaries. Called #dreamlandamerica it has covered Youngstown Ohio and in the second part covers Chinese moving into suburbean Los Angeles. As climate change will...

NY Times: —snip— Both the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates broke from their campaign routines to address the issue. Donald J. Trump, in Colorado Springs, rushed to describe the explosion as a bomb...

I’m not a fan of Robert Gates and I could write a pretty savage piece on his record going back to the Reagan administration. But, when he was nominated to replace Donald Rumsfeld, I stuck up for him against that kind of...