Author: BooMan

For old time’s sake.

Back in November, I made a considerable effort to raise objections to Nate Silver’s assessment that Donald Trump had no better than a 20% chance of winning the Republican nomination. Partly, I thought Silver was...

Lee Drutman has a review of James M. Curry’s new book Legislating in the Dark: Information and Power in the House of Representatives in the January/February issue of our magazine. Drutman’s main thesis is that...

Robert Leonard has interviewed Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa once a week on the radio for the last ten years. That might explain why he has such a high opinion of the Hawkeye State’s senior senator. And it could be that...

I have been crippled by a nasty virus. This is possibly the worst illness I’ve ever had. I remember getting something similar when I was four or five years old, but it didn’t come with all this joint pain. To cheer...