Kill The Filibuster and Pass the Regs
I'm a little late providing links to my latest two pieces for the dead-tree magazine. My TRB column ("Die, Filibuster, Die") explains why Harry Reid's impulse to compromise is not his friend (or ours) when it comes to the filibuster. I also have a piece ("Hope Solo") explaining various ways President Obama can achieve policy goals without any input from Congress. READ MORE >>
No, Romney Didn’t Win The Middle Class
My TNR colleague Alec McGillis does a fine job filleting Romney strategist Stuart Stevens’s op-ed in today’s Washington Post, but there's one point I’d like to add: Stevens is dead wrong when he says Romney won the middle class vote. READ MORE >>
The Illusory Power of Grover Norquist
Filibuster Chicken Little-ism
The predominant ideology in Washington isn’t liberalism or conservatism. It’s Chicken Little-ism. READ MORE >>
How Charter Schools Fleece Taxpayers
In government, if I help myself to taxpayer dollars, we call that embezzlement and I go to jail. In the private sector, if I help myself to taxpayer dollars, we call that innovation and I get hailed as a visionary exponent of public-private partnership. That’s the lesson of a Nov. 17 investigation by Anne Ryman of the Arizona Republic into the state’s charter schools. READ MORE >>
Small Business Sells John Boehner Out
Fred Barnes: Fine, We’re The Party Of Whitey
The palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear colored and coloring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him. And of all these things the Albino whale was the symbol. Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt? —Herman Melville, “The Whiteness of the Whale,” Moby Dick, 1851. READ MORE >>
Eight Ways Obama Can Jam Through His Agenda Without Congress
Die, Filibuster, Die
Exit Polls Can’t Explain Why Obama Won
We all know that President Obama won re-election last night. But why did he win? My colleague Jon Cohn makes a persuasive broad-brush argument, but when I try to identify, from exit poll data, the specific Obama policies that voters ratified, the exercise proves weirdly difficult. READ MORE >>
