Author: BooMan

I’ve developed a new way of watching Republican debates. First, I forget that they’ve already started. Then I fail to remember that they’re being carried exclusively by a cable news network I watch so little...

I like Brian Beutler’s pre-game analysis of tonight’s Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan presidential library. I think he has a good formulation in carving out four candidates who are broadly acceptable to the...

Conservatives continually press the Republican leadership to fight battles that they cannot win. This is a natural instinct, and many progressives continually urged President Obama to fight harder for things that would never...

Someone looked at it and Donald Trump really is Sarah Palin with much better but not perfect syntax.

New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman interviewed Mitt Romney’s campaign manager Stuart Stevens and they discussed a wide range of topics. At the end, they came to the subject of Donald Trump. You write in the book...