Author: BooMan

You’d think that rich people, particularly those who were born into their riches, would look around at their riches and think to themselves that life would kind of be hard without all their riches. You would be wrong. What...

In our January/February issue of the Washington Monthly, former research analyst for the Congressional Research Service, Kevin Kosar, explains why dysfunction on Capitol Hill led him to leave the job he loved and go to work for...

Our newly minted Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said the following in the course of making some prepared remarks, yesterday. “Let’s pass legislation that focuses on jobs and the real concerns of the Middle...

At this point it really should be better understood, but isn’t, that the only thing that gives meaning to David Brook’s life is inspiring a warm tingling desire in philosophy majors to commit a public act of...

I guess it was back in the mid-nineties, before all that impeachment nonsense, when it first began to dawn on me that the Republican Party was really just an unbelievably malevolent force that never said what it meant and whose...