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No one in the reality-based community would object to E.J. Dionne's core point below. But I do have a problem with the final sentence (...

This rather anodyne defense of pragmatism by P.M. Carpenter triggered a memory: No doubt, chief among internal progressive battlegrounds...

Another flashback from The Clinton Tapes : when Clinton found himself 20 votes short for NAFTA passage in the House, he shifted back to p...

As observers struggle to divine Sarah Palin's effect on various races for Congress and governor, it's worth looking back at the all...

Having waxed lyrical about the wonders of the Buffalo Garden Walk and put up pictures more than once, I thought this year I'd do someth...

One disturbing moment that resonates now in Taylor Branch's The Clinton Tapes is Clinton's short-range reminiscence about his first...

Perhaps it's silly to record reactions to a book while you're still reading it, particularly early on. But what's a blog for? I ...

Today's Times has front-page article reporting the first whispers in U.S. government that defense cuts may have to be part of any long-...

Jim Manzi views the dispute between poll analyst Nate Silver and pollster John Zogby in economic terms: Silver intelligently combines mult...

Stray thought of the week: while walking to the train this evening, something made me think of a particularly stale truism in a student'...

Today my son Jonah (age 20) and his friend Brian made their debut on Huffington Post's new NYC Beat channel, reviewing a Matt & Kim...

Raghuram Rajan, the former IMF economist who was one of the first to finger banks' pay structure as a key cause of the financial crisi...

Dave Weigel's cynicism about the media's engagement with politicians and the electorate's engagement with media is so extreme t...

Under the subject line "my prediction," here's the lede in Nancy Pelosi's fundraising email, sent this morning  (hat tip M...

Traditional conservatives and Republicans,  just coming to grips with what's hit them in the form of the Tea Party, are trying on variou...

There's been much bloggiating lately on means-testing social security, raising the retirement age, or listing the cap on earnings subje...

As U.S. unemployment remains stubbornly, dangerously, high, calls mount for a manufacturing revival.  Hence James Fallows, blogging today f...

As a child of the 1960s, I found Rick Perstein's wonderful Nixonland a compulsive read. On one level it's a moment-by-moment replay...

No one knows Benjamin Netanyahu's heart and ultimate intentions regarding peace negotiations with he Palestinians at this point. In the ...

Back in March, when Benjamin Netanyahu's Interior Minister Eli Yishai ruptured Israeli-U.S. relations by announcing plans to build 1,600...