Author: BooMan

Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah like to get attention, but they don’t necessarily have any strategic sense. This is particularly true about short-game strategic thinking, although they may be having more...

Thirty-five years ago, The Clash released London Calling in the United Kingdom. It seems almost like yesterday to me. Two years ago today the Newtown, Connecticut massacre took place. On this day in 1911, Norwegian explorer...

Jonathan Chait makes a good observation about how the right went from insisting that waterboarding isn’t so bad and was, in any case, only carried out on three bad guys, to attempting to gloss over all manner of torture....

Starting at noon, the Senate will be in session all day, possibly past midnight, holding vote after vote on as many as 20 unconfirmed nominations made by the Obama administration. These will be procedural cloture votes that,...

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