Author: BooMan

I love how this country devises new ways to always avoid taking responsibility for its past mistakes. Did we torture people to death for no good reason? Oh well, we can’t admit it or our soldiers deployed overseas will be...

I keep pointing this out, as Nate Cohn observes: One of the big questions of this election cycle is whether it will turn out to be a “wave” election, like the one in 2010, when an upswell of anti-Democratic sentiment carried...

While it’s impossible to know, probably even in retrospect, there is no reason not to ask the question. Do you think the universe of women who will vote for a female presidential candidate just because she is a woman is...

Steve M. is basically correct that the GOP is a party that represents the rich and the people who like to root for the rich, but he’s missing something when he says that white working class voters see people who are using...

In answer to Nathan Robinson’s complaint that Senator Ted Cruz isn’t really that smart, I think the point is that he is a first-rate demagogue. When people admit that Cruz is highly intelligent, they do not mean that...