Author: BooMan

I don’t think too many people really question the culture of their hometown until they’ve had an opportunity to live someplace else for a while. I grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, an affluent Ivy League town where...

I’ve been to a lot of political conferences and I know how exciting and comforting in can be to find others who think like you do, especially when you’ve often felt like you were all alone. But it’s a little...

Here’s one way to make America great again. In the days ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s first visit to the White House during the Trump presidency, in March 2017, [National Security Council] career staffers were...

I agree with Greg Sargent that President Trump’s decision to ignore the assessment of his own intelligence community and grant his son-in-law a top security clearance is something that could really blow up in his face. The...

In May 2010, I wrote a piece about the uninspiring choice Pennsylvania progressives were facing as they tried to decide who they should support as their nominee for U.S. Senate. On one side, there was their longtime nemesis,...