Author: BooMan

Does anyone have a theory for why we are being deluged with random shootings in malls and schools? Is it a copycat effect, where one shooting begets another? Is it something societal like the lack of opportunity for kids in...

The Ready for Hillary PAC was active in Iowa over the weekend, and they are trying to figure out how to help Clinton’s campaign even before she announces that she’s a candidate. It’s probably helpful that she...

I am intrigued by Ezra Klein’s ambition to provide a more contextual form of reporting. I agree with him that newspapers are less good at explaining why things are happening than they are at explaining what is happening....

Matthew O’Brien, writing in The Atlantic, asks if the American Dream is dead in the South. Roy Edroso reads Jonah Goldberg so you don’t have to. Did you know that Elizabeth Warren and Tom Coburn teamed up to...

This is just ridiculous: WASHINGTON (AP) — Income inequality is out, “ladders of opportunity” is in. Eager to dispel claims that President Barack Obama is engaging in “class warfare” as he heads into his...