Author: BooMan

The Hollow Sanders Campaign

If you were following the 2007-08 Obama campaign closely, it was possible to get at least some outlines of what his administration might look like if he eventually won the nomination and the presidency. It was a fair bet that...

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How America Gets Assimilation (Mostly) Right

June Shih, a former Clinton administration speechwriter and senior advisor at the State Department, has a great review in our January/February issue of the magazine. As a second generation immigrant from Taiwan who grew up in...

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Will Congress Try to Combat Opioid Epidemic?

I have to travel down to DC in a minute, so I don’t have time to editorialize about this. Just wanted to note it, because it’s important. Sens. Angus King (I-Maine) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) are doubling down on...

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It’s Time for the Election to Heat Up

A year from today, we’ll be swearing in a new president. Will it be a guy who calls himself a Democratic Socialist? The answer is, not if a lot of Democrats have anything to say about it. Said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO):...

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That’s Not How Elections Work

The FiveThirtyEight deep-dive into the delegate math of the Republican nomination is useful but also just bizarre. The first thing they do is assume that Rubio will emerge as the savior the Establishment rallies around to stop...

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