April

As a result of suffering a very temporary disability, my respect for those truly and permanently disabled grew enormously. I’d like to be able to say I tore my ACL…

Not long ago I shared a platform with a colleague who, in a valiant attempt to improve Democratic morale, recalled that even though unemployment was over 10 percent in 1982,…

Sometimes the obvious isn’t quite true. Take enthusiasm. Democrats certainly suffer from a considerable enthusiasm gap this cycle. Analysts routinely assume that enthusiasm equals turnout – that lower levels of…

Republicans have turned against the very mechanism they foisted on environmentalists – cap-and-trade. Distraught about regulation, Republicans urged this market mechanism to reduce carbon pollution, and GOPers like Rob Portman have…

In the midst of the day-to-day struggles Americans face to retain the dignity that comes with work, to keep food on tables, roofs overhead and medicines in cabinets, something broader…

As a pollster, I spend half my time telling people there are no magic numbers. There is no job performance or favorability rating above which victory is inevitable and below…

Few Americans devote any time to contemplating Dutch politics. But in a win that seems to American ears like a candidate for Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Holland’s Liberals won…