April

Is the BP spill President Obama’s Katrina? To ask the question is to raise doubts in the public mind – doubts about competence and empathy – doubts that may not…

Last week, writing before Tuesday’s election, I laid out some lessons about public opinion that could be derived from the results that were to come. Nothing that actually transpired changed…

Regardless of Tuesday’s results (I am writing before the votes have been cast), the fundamental contours of public attitudes shaping this year’s electoral environment are already etched in bold relief.…

Were we to label decades the way the Chinese name years – by reference to animals – this would qualify as the Decade of the Black Swan. In Roman times,…

Last week, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine told reporters that he will sell Democrats as the “results party” in 2010, trumpeting our party’s myriad accomplishments. Kaine articulated his message…

With commentators offering a dizzying array of perspectives on the relationship between the economy and voting, it is hard to separate fact from fable, analysis from anecdote, history from hypothesis.…

Having helped bankrupt the country, big Wall Street banks are now revealing their intellectual and moral bankruptcy in slogans and ads that massively misrepresent reality in a desperate, and frankly…

President Obama recently and rightly chastised poll-waving pundits for parroting premature conclusions about the popularity of healthcare reform, based on the absence of a post-passage surge in support. Wait until…