Mark Mellman

When I was in graduate school, deconstructionism was the intellectual rage with my humanities oriented friends. One of deconstruction’s central tenets is that “all reading is misreading.” I heard it…

With control of the Senate hanging in the balance, all the drama appears to be in that body, with far less focus on the House, which is important in its…

Many are looking at Scotland’s independence referendum as a referendum on poll accuracy as well. And the general consensus is that polls failed the test. One analyst called it “a…

What happened to the rising isolationist sentiment I have documented in recent columns? Just three months ago I concluded, “Isolationism is extending its grip on public opinion.” Americans wanted to…

America has flourished because we have carefully safeguarded the complex interplay between politics and markets, between a system where every vote counts equally and one where money talks. Free markets…

As we begin the countdown to Election Day, where do we stand on the fundamentals, those structural factors that impact every race on the ballot? It’s a midterm. Perhaps the…

In this political year, only a lucky few of those streaming out of the nation’s capital this summer are headed for a real vacation, but they are doing so with…

The death toll in Syria recently surpassed 170,000; in Gaza it topped 1,000. Although each of these individual deaths is a tragedy of infinite proportions, Israel’s supporters often ask why…

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) demonstrated that he is certainly not qualified to chair the “intelligence” committee, by mindlessly repeating that “the president of the United States…

Pew’s carefully crafted, richly detailed study of political polarization was released a month ago, but it has not quelled the debate. Is America polarized, more so than in the past?…