Washington
Why Won’t the Military Take Troop-on-Troop Rape Seriously?
The Surreal Candidacy of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
For a defeated primary challenger to be more visible than the incumbent himself is rare. But, in her telling, that’s exactly the exasperating situation in which Debbie Halvorson, the former congresswoman who tried in the primaries to unseat Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., finds herself. READ MORE >>
Obama Defies Demographic Trends in Ohio
In 2008, Obama won a decisive national victory with a diverse coalition of young, minority, college educated, and non-southern white voters. Four years later, Obama’s once-broad coalition has collapsed—but his losses aren't spread equally across a diverse electorate. Obama continues to hold near ’08 levels of support among black and Hispanic voters, but trails Romney by a historic margin among white voters, and particularly white voters without a college degree. READ MORE >>
Presidential politics can get very ugly, but in the current contest I don't think we've heard any slogans as vicious as the one leveled in 1972 against George McGovern, who died this past weekend at age 90. The South Dakota senator was, his opponents sneered, the candidate of "Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion." READ MORE >>
Keep Erskine Bowles Away from Treasury
ERSKINE BOWLES, best known as the Democratic co-chairman of the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission, is reported by The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post to be under consideration to succeed Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary in a second Obama term. He says he doesn’t want the job, but no matter who gets elected, Bowles is angling for some kind of prominent role in any future deal on spending and taxes. Let’s not give it to him. READ MORE >>
Ben Affleck’s “Argo” Is Brilliant
Why the Nationals’ Playoff Loss Was the Best Thing That Could Have Happened to Washington Sports
I wish we had won—had held on in the ninth; had played Game 1 of the National League Championship Series against the San Francisco Giants last night; had had a shot at the World Series. But as the pain of Friday night subsides and detachment comes more easily, an undeniable fact emerges: the Nationals, and Washington, needed this. In fact, the gut-punch of a loss may have been the best possible thing that could happen to the capital city’s nascent baseball culture. READ MORE >>
Five Lessons Obama Should Take From Biden
A Coal Company Owner Responds
How Mother Jones Got That Story
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