Political Commentary for Reasonable People
On Thursday came a report from The Wall Street Journal about the narrowing education gap between US parents and their children, suggesting the American dream was in jeopardy.
Friday we got two more intriguing pieces on related topics—or topics … More…
This past weekend, Russia and China vetoed a carefully prepared and much-watered-down resolution in the UN Security Council that threatened sanctions against Syria if its regime didn… More…
“To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea but in the course of recent history”—former Sen. George McGovern, (defeated) Democratic presidential candidate, 1972.
Liberalism has two … More…
“The [Bush] aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’
“‘That's not the way the world really … More…
Independents are the largest political bloc in the US, but our views occupy only a small part of the national conversation.
Why? Because cable news and the blogosphere—the principal public outlets for political discourse in this country—are sharply polarized between … More…
