Author: BooMan

Americans Elect announced their intentions with some basic boilerplate: American voters are tired of politics as usual. They want leaders that will put their country before their party, and American interests before special...

Americans Elect announced their intentions with some basic boilerplate: American voters are tired of politics as usual. They want leaders that will put their country before their party, and American interests before special...

When Steve Benen said that last year’s debt ceiling fiasco was the worst thing an American political party has done since the Civil War, it got me thinking. The Palmer Raids were more an executive branch thing than a...

What Krugman said: Well, there actually is a large constituency in America for a political leader who is willing to take responsible positions — to call for more investment in the nation’s education and infrastructure, to...

We’ll have to bookmark this wisdom of David Brooks and check back in November to see if he was prescient or dead wrong: I’d say that Obama is a slight underdog this year: the scuffling economy will grind away at voters....