Month: May 2014

What are you listening to?

It would be hard for New York State politics to get any more interesting or harder to write about. Just trying to think about explaining it all makes me exhausted. It would be fascinating for its own sake even if it didn’t...

While Jamelle Bouie marshals data to make the case that racial minorities have done better economically during Democratic presidencies than Republican ones, Kevin Williamson pouts that he has been misunderstood. He never said...

Dartmouth Professor Randall Balmer argues convincingly that the origin of the religious right as a political force stemmed from opposition to school desegregation rather than opposition to the Roe v. Wade decision. I don’t...

In Kentucky, the federal health care exchange created by the Affordable Care Act is called Kynect. Kynect is very popular, but ObamaCare is very unpopular. So it goes. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to rip up...