There seems to be no dirtier word in the English lexicon today than “neocon”. Almost everyone has a strong opinion about the ideology, and yet very few have a clear...
The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article by former Kerry campaign staffer Jeffrey Scott Shapiro expressing what is rapidly becoming the stock neoconservative argument: that in the fullness of...
Who counts as a terrorist and who doesn’t? Across the world, there are dozens of countries and organizations with agendas counter to U.S. government interests. But keeping track of which...
If the protracted Democratic primary process was good for anyone besides John McCain, it was good for NBC Political Director Chuck Todd. His understanding of the intricate calculus of Democratic...
It should have been cold out. It was December, in Columbia, South Carolina, the home of the game cocks, and I stood there, waiting for Barack Obama to speak. He’d...
In 1999, Andrew Rotherham was hearing from more than a few people that his career was over. An education analyst at the Progressive Policy Institute, Rotherham had just authored a...
