Month: March 2019

Paul Waldman ably describes the two most common fallacies pundits and politicians use to explain how Democratic presidents can get stuff done in Washington. One can be called “the Bernie Sanders fallacy.” It involves...

Our country does some stupid things. Consider the case of Jagdish Rai Chadha. Based on his unique circumstances, do you think it was necessary to deport him? Respondent Jagdish Rai Chadha was born in the British colony of Kenya...

It’s hard to pin Beto O’Rourke down on the current (largely faux news-generated) set of political spectra. He’s not a “populist”…at least not in the sense that the term is usually used today,...

From the execrable NY Post, of all places. Booman’s recent article “Dems Too Smart, GOP Too Stoopid” says it all. That a pro-Trump rag would print that phrase…the exact equivalent of Nixon’s...

I don’t think too many people really question the culture of their hometown until they’ve had an opportunity to live someplace else for a while. I grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, an affluent Ivy League town where...