Author: BooMan

In the latest issue of the Washington Monthly, our fearless editor in chief Paul Glastris makes an astute historical point about the Iranian Hostage Crisis: In the eleven years prior to the hostage crisis, five U.S. ambassadors...

Sen. Cory Booker did what I expected him to do, which is to wait until it was too late to matter to make a decision on whether or not to endorse the nuclear deal with Iran, and then to endorse it. This makes the most political...

I find this quite interesting. A close associate tells Politico that Donald Trump plans to sign a loyalty pledge “that would bind him to endorse the Republican nominee, and would preclude a third-party run. Trump made the...

Here’s an exercise. Tell me your answers to following questions. Which Republican presidential candidate: 1. is the funniest. 2. is the smartest. 3. seems like the most decent person. 4. would you drink a beer with (if you...

If you like your history lessons with a quirk or two, you’ll probably enjoy the book review we have in this month’s issue of the Washington Monthly of Reid Mitenbuler’s recently published Bourbon Empire: The...