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When Democrats voted last Friday to jigger the rules of sequestration to allow the FAA to ease flight delays, the conviction took hold on t...

Recent readings about education reform and conversations with teachers have convinced me that the current emphasis on high-stakes testing is...

This headline, that is, or rather large caption to a front-page photo in today's Wall Street Journal (not onine): Shooting Mars Sweari...

As the deadline for the sequestration cuts to take effect loomed last March, Republicans used that label to try to pin them on Obama. The se...

By any normal human reckoning, you would have to call President Obama's selective precis of the George W. Bush presidency, delivered at...

One passage in Peter Beinart's stirring ode to Obama's gun control efforts set me thinking again about how Obama views (and frames)...

[reposted] Alyssa Rosenberg* does not find Romeo and Juliet dramatically satisfying or morally wholesome: Romeo and Juliet —a play abo...

ICYMI, this week serious questions were raised about a controversial and influential paper by Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenne...

Five long days ago, when the Senate broke a filibuster to allow debate on the Manchin-Toomey bill extending background checks on gun sales t...

Rarely will you hear a president, or any elected official, accuse those who oppose a piece of legislation of moral failure as starkly Obama...

On this just-past beautiful spring Sunday, my wife and I took our first visit to Duke Farms , the 2600 acre Jersey estate of the tobacco hei...

The lede to this Hill article dredged up a thought that had flitted half-noticed through the ol' necktop a day or two ago: The White ...

who "like" or "love" doing our taxes, according to Pew: When asked why they like doing their income taxes, 29% say th...

[reposted, with postscript]: Alyssa Rosenberg* does not find Romeo & Juliet dramatically satisfying or morally wholesome: Romeo and...

As I noted once before , Obama is getting a lot of rhetorical mileage (for whatever that's worth) out of adding chained-CPI to his 2014 ...

It seems to me that in sketching out possible budget battle endgames, Greg Sargent is missing the middle ground. Or call it three-quarters ...

I have learned from political scientists including Brendhan Nyhan and Jonathan Bernstein that presidents generally can't sway public op...

Last July, I posed the question in the title in the post below, prompting a bit of a lawyer's debate in the comments. Ratman, an acute ...

I am no Civil War historian, so I will just share the remarkable discourse below attributed to Abraham Lincoln without comment. This convers...

It's become a cliche that Obama is a poor negotiator because he "negotiates with himself." In his weekly address , he makes it...