Year: 2016

I’m taking a break from my WaMo responsibilities. People around the house are demanding my attention (and ice cream). I think it was a bit of a hidden blessing that I’ve been buried in work all day. The biggest...

 . . . ’til [we] know Too many people have died?” And do something sane about our insane gun laws.

People are sick of being thought of as faraway annoyances who only get whatever policy scraps are left over after pols have finished servicing the donors they hang out with at Redskins games. Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone:...

Been busy getting new issue of Washington Monthly ready for online publication in our new system. I have received your mail and complaints. Now, back to work.

I originally wrote this piece as a response to Booman’s latest Casual Observation post. I guess I had the broad outlines of this election figured out by June 11th, 2014. That’s two years ago, today. Some surprising...