Author: BooMan

I think Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey befuddles political commentators because he doesn’t neatly fit into preconceived boxes. He can’t be buttonholed as a “liberal” or a “black” politician,...

U.S. Senate seats come with six-year terms, which makes it preferable to have almost any Democrat in them than a Republican, but I don’t think Mary Landrieu could have made any easier to say goodbye to her seat. Sure, the...

In the November/December 2014 issue of the Washington Monthly, Ed Kilgore has a review of Rick Perlstein’s latest book: The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. The book is the third in a trilogy....

California Attorney General Kamala Harris looks foolish today. She’s reduced to arguing that she had no idea that her office went into court and argued that they could not comply with a court order to reduce the prison...

The following Democrats voted for the Keystone XL pipeline: Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania Sen. Joe Donnelly of Indiana Sen. Kay Hagan of...