Author: BooMan

I hope the Democrats have a Plan B because relying on Facebook and Twitter to win elections is a strategy for suckers. We are not a closed society. Social media is valuable, but it doesn’t have the same impact here as it...

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She served as chair of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s Advisory Committee on Democracy...

Former senator from New Hampshire Judd Gregg points out something that was confirmed by Gallup last week. The Republicans have no frontrunner for their presidential nomination and this is completely atypical in the post-war era....

So, Joe Lieberman is feeling newly liberated now that he has announced his retirement. He doesn’t need to raise any money. He doesn’t have to worry about angering the base of the Democratic Party. And so he has an...

Unfortunately, I have to concur with Glenn Greenwald in his condemnation of the treatment of Bradley Manning. I agreed with P.J. Crowley. I consider him to have made a principled stand, as he clearly sacrificed his career to...