Dana Goldstein

A Washington Post article today looks at college graduates in their twenties who are marrying and having children earlier than their peers. In metropolitan areas, 13 percent of men and 31 percent of women with college degrees between the ages of 25 and 29 have children, compared to 49 percent of men and 62 percent […]

Read Kate, Paul, and Ezra on the ugliness of the Clinton campaign’s injection of race into the debate over the past week or so. Obviously, it’s exciting to imagine the possibility of either the first female or the first African American president. But it’s sad to see that while one campaign handles this competition with […]

Ugly stuff going on in Nevada: The state teachers union (an affiliate of the Ugly stuff going on in Nevada: The state teachers union (an affiliate of the Hillary Clinton-endorsing National Education Association) has filed a lawsuit to shut down planned provisional caucus locations on the Las Vegas strip during the Jan. 19 election. The […]

Did Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech killer, commit his terrible crimes because of a history of romantic rejection at the hands of white women? That’s the thesis of a new n+1 essay (not available online) that, like Matt Yglesias and Reihan Salam, I recommend — although I have some reservations. The author, Wesley Yang, does […]

Today the Today the New York Times reports on the “backlash” against New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s endless presidential run trial balloons. Count me among the originally pissed off when it comes to Bloomberg’s posturing; he’s nothing but a technocratic, neoliberal Democrat in indepedent sheep’s clothing. Not that there aren’t things I like about Bloomie […]

I highly recommend bossman I highly recommend bossman Harold Meyerson‘s column today, in which he fits Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama into the old beer track/wine track classification of Democratic politicians. In other words, Clinton appeals to older people, party loyalists, working class and union folks, and those concerned primarily about the economy. Obama is […]

One of the big stories out of last night’s New Hampshire primary is the youth vote, whose influence was overtaken by gender solidarity. Obama won 60 percent of voters age 24 and younger, lost narrowly among 25-29 year olds, and won among people in their thirties. I can’t explain that 25-29 aberration at all. Thoughts? […]

I got into an interesting discussion in a comments thread last night with I got into an interesting discussion in a comments thread last night with Rock, who was surprised that Hillary Clinton won among New Hampshire voters earning less than $50,000. “I don’t see Clinton’s economic policies as being particularly more populist than Obama‘s, […]

In his concession speech in New Hampshire tonight, Obama borrowed several notes from John Edwards, and talked about workers struggling across the nation (in particular — cough cough — Nevada culinary workers) and children attending crumbling schools. Is he trying to get more specific, more explicitly progressive? I’ll leave the heavy lifting to my colleagues […]

From the Christopher Hitchens files: Clinton is an “aging and resentful female.” Key quote: [Obama] sometimes claims credit on behalf of all Americans regardless of race, color, creed, blah blah blah, though his recent speeches appear also to claim a victory for blackness while his supporters—most especially the white ones—sob happily that at last we […]