Author: BooMan

Casual Observation

After a long day working on the Washington Monthly College Guide, I am bone-tired. But this just makes me exhausted. I don’t know if people are aware of how draining it is to be surrounded by a political process that is...

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Trump Cloaks Bigger Problems

I don’t have much good to say about the Washington Post, but I think they did something right for a change when they hired Robert Costa. He seems to have good sources on the right side of the aisle and a pretty good sense...

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Open Thread

Taking a break from putting together the digital version of the 2015 Washington Monthly College Guide.

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Hyping the Crime Rate

Over at Think Progress, Aviva Shen takes a deep look at how police departments report the crime rate. As should be obvious, in the normal course of things, the incentives are all skewed toward underreporting crime so that the...

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The Worst Governor in the World

Imagine, if you will, that the U.S. Congress, led by Republicans John Boehner in the House and Mitch McConnell in the Senate, passed and sent 65 bills to President Obama that the president opposed. Many if not most of these...

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