Month: March 2015

I’m just paging Arthur Gilroy here. Any response? In an open letter to Iranian leaders, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and 46 other Republicans said that without congressional approval, any deal between Iran and the U.S. would...

Accepting Duncan’s invitation to revisit my contemporaneous analysis of the debt ceiling negotiations and compare it to what I said earlier today, I agree that there isn’t much contradiction. I think, although I am...

Sarah Palin’s mockery of Barack Obama’s brief community organizing career during her acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican national convention was typical of how many conservatives treated his experience then, and...

One of the great puzzles about the Obama administration that historians will have to suss out is just what their actual position was going into and during the negotiations over the Grand Bargain. This isn’t a simple...

Personally, I like Chris Van Hollen. He’d make a fine senator. But I like Donna Edwards more. And she’d be an electrifying senator. Even the prospect of Edwards getting into the Maryland race to replace Barbara...