April

In 1938, Stalin’s secret police arrested my great-aunt, who was within weeks of being deported to Siberia, where she and her children would have been lost forever. Fortunately, her husband…

Polling around the recently signed economic recovery bill affords an opportunity to tease out some lessons about public opinion:Partisanship Reigns (Or, Do Leaders Lead?) – Regular readers will not be…

Leaderless, rudderless, bereft of a message or ideas and in defiance of common sense, Republicans continue to march into hell for a cause that is far from heavenly, diminishing further…

Bipartisanship has been used to describe so many things, it now means almost nothing. If bipartisanship means soliciting ideas from the opposition party, President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)…

Which is it? Does Sen. Susan Collins hate kids or love property taxes? I know we are supposed to be post-partisan, lavishing praise on Sen. Collins (Maine) for breaking ranks…

It is a question on the lips of almost every commentator: “When will voters stop being patient and start blaming President Obama for the country’s economic woes?” In fact, the…

Before future columns return to extracting additional nuggets of knowledge from the historic election of 2008, I thought I might peer into the future, examining some possibilities for 2010. With…

As we traverse history’s long and winding road, it is easy to mistake major signposts for ultimate destinations. Woodrow Wilson mistook the League of Nations for “a definite guarantee of…

Entering a new election cycle, Democrats face a radically altered political dynamic and a single overriding strategic imperative – to succeed. In control of the presidency and both houses of…

Last year, voters embraced major change at the ballot box; but the ability of our political system to deliver the bold policy changes people want remains in question. By devising…