Author: BooMan

Ta-Nehisi Coates issues an extraordinary challenge to the president and white progressives (not just Jonathan Chait) to dispose of their conviction “that poor black people are not ‘holding up their end of the...

Can the Sunday morning political shows get any better? How could they get worse? The beginning of the problem isn’t even identified by Paul Waldman. The beginning of the problem is that the programs are basically an...

When your cynicism is confirmed does it make you more or less cynical? Former Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) will be lobbying for Las Vegas Sands at her firm Lincoln Policy Group, according to new disclosure records. The casino,...

Charles Pierce is a little more vituperative in his criticism of Bill Kristol than I was, but it amounts to the same thing. I guess I thought that if I opened my piece with “Blow me,” there was a strong chance Mr....

My car’s radio antenna is broken, so I am stuck with CD’s. I’ve been playing Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball album on a loop for a week and it just gets better with every replaying. It is such a...