Author: BooMan

A lot of people want to spin Cantor’s loss to suit their purposes. But if you don’t think it was based in racism then you weren’t paying attention to his opponent’s campaign. You can poll the people of...

When President Obama ran for reelection, his campaign speech was accompanied at nearly every stop by Bruce Springsteen’s song We Take Care of Our Own. It was an explicit endorsement of the values expressed in that song and...

In the aftermath of Eric Cantor’s epic, shocking 11-point primary loss to an underfunded xenophobic college professor, Hillary Clinton bestrides the globe like a colossus. There is literally no hope now that the Republican...

My colleague Ed Kilgore is pretty consistent and persistent in his conviction that the best way to turn out Democratic voters in a mid-term election is mechanically, through field work, rather than through “exciting the...

I think the headline of this Washington Post piece is worse than the actual article. The headline suggests that women should stop having premarital sex in order to protect themselves from sexual violence, which isn’t...