Month: November 2015

We have a very convoluted system for electing our president, and particularly so within our party nominating contests. In some places we have caucuses that are followed by county and state conventions where delegates are...

Whatever you might think of Michael Bloomberg otherwise, his corporate empire, including Bloomberg News, was built on the insight that big-time investors would be willing to pay top dollar for information that was directly...

Reality Check: Oval Office hides truths | JPost | As guests go Netanyahu is one of the most unlikeable, and very little has changed since his first visit to Washington as prime minister in 1996. Back then, Bill Clinton was...

The League of Conservation Voters hasn’t endorsed a presidential candidate this early in the last thirty years. In January 2004, they gave John Kerry the nod, but only after he had won the votes of some caucus and primary...

Katie Zezima and David Weigel have a piece up at the Washington Post on Sen. Ted Cruz and how he relishes and seeks to exploit the animosity he’s created on Capitol Hill. The piece has the familiar stories. When Cruz...