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Let’s talk Republicans. As I write, it’s 365 days before the New Hampshire presidential primary, which makes this a propitious time to cast an eye toward the only party likely…

When I was three years old and my sister was a newborn, my mother contracted polio. Her doctor, making a house call (yes, it was a different day) sternly warned…

I am getting old. I know that because I’m complaining about the young. They just don’t pay attention to news about politics and public affairs. If we thought earlier generations…

If President Obama’s State of the Union address lived up to its advanced billing, you will have heard a lot of tax talk Tuesday night. Polls suggest the issue does…

Pollsters and pundits spend lots of time studying margins — how far ahead or behind a given candidate is relative to his or her opponent. Focusing on margins is a…

People should be accountable for what they write. As a graduate student, I spent far too many hours in a dank and darkened room with a TV set and a…

If I were President Obama, I’d be enormously frustrated. The actual President Obama may be frustrated, too. After all, the country has created more than 200,000 jobs each month for…

I’ll have more to say about November’s elections in the coming weeks as additional numbers are crunched. In the meantime, what we can learn from President Obama’s immigration announcement and…

Democrats’ economic agenda fared far better than Democratic candidates on Election Day. Minimum wage increases garnered big majorities in Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska and South Dakota as voters were pummeling Democratic…

The first key to understanding Tuesday’s elections is recognizing that it was a midterm cycle. The party controlling the White House typically loses seats in midterms. In recent decades, those…