John Kerry
Keystone Conundrum
Whatever Happened to the Evangelical-Environmental Alliance?
2012 Will Be a Referendum on Obama, Whether He Likes It or Not
By all accounts, the Obama campaign wants to avoid having the 2012 election turn into a referendum on the president’s first term, hoping instead to turn it into a choice between the two major parties’ candidates and visions for the country’s future. But if history is any guide, that will be an uphill battle. READ MORE >>
Rick Perry And The Map Worth A Thousand Words
Amid all the talk today about what sort of place Rick Perry comes from—and how much people there clung to their appellation of a certain piece of land —it's worth calling attention to what has to be one of the most telling and eye-opening maps of contemporary voting behavior. READ MORE >>
Selling Public Works to the Tea Party
I know Tea Party Republicans don’t care for infrastructure spending. But I presume they still care for infrastructure. READ MORE >>
The Butterfly Effect
It is often said that the age of the Washington hostess is dead. Gone are the days, we are told, of Katharine Graham and Pamela Harriman, who assembled Washington power players around tables where deals were struck and alliances forged. But that may not be entirely true. The name Rima Al-Sabah doesn’t ring many bells to people outside the Beltway. Inside, it rings a lot. READ MORE >>
Planes, Boats, and Paris Hilton: Why Can’t Democrats Master the Politics of Synecdoche?
It’s a choice between “kids’ safety” and “tax breaks for corporate jets” according to President Obama’s clearest explanation of the budget showdown in a press conference last Wednesday. The Republicans’ staggering refusal to consider even the most minimal efforts to close tax loopholes—because it would cross the line of their blood-oath to tax lobbyist Grover Norquist—was boiled down to the tangible phrase, repeated six times, “corporate jets.” READ MORE >>
