Dana Goldstein

It’s becoming more and more apparent that David Paul Kuhn‘s M.O. has less to do with analyzing Democratic electoral strategy than with a deep aversion toward women’s leadership. Kuhn is the Politico writer currently promoting a book, The Neglected Voter, on why white men are the future of the Democratic Party. As devoted readers will […]

We last saw Dr. James Holsinger, President Bush‘s surgeon general appointee, at his Senate confirmation hearings, forswearing decades of religiously-motivated homophobia and ignorance about HIV/AIDS. He claimed that he had evolved into a more tolerant individual and doctor. Today the United Methodist News Service released a press release announcing that Holsinger, the president of the […]

At Politico, Ben Adler reports that student campaigners in Iowa are concerned that the probable holiday-time caucus date of the first week of January — the GOP has already settled on Jan. 3 — will depress student turn-out. Colleges and universities are on winter break and many dormitories will be closed, making it harder for […]

In a list of the top 25 American cities, what locale ranks number 4 in “intelligence,” dead last for “fun,” number 24 in attractiveness of its residents, but supposedly number 1 in “wordliness,” “museums,” and “architecture”? Why, it’s Washington, D.C! At least according to tourists polled by Travel & Leisure magazine. Perfectly reflecting the malaise […]

Anita Hill focuses on the particular toll predatory lending takes on female home-owners. In Massachusetts, for example, one-third of first-time home buyers are single women, as are a quarter of all home buyers. Like many buyers, single women who qualify for conventional loans are often steered toward subprimes anyhow. But unlike men, brokers push women […]

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has announced that Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, in many ways the moral center of her wizarding universe, should be understood as gay. If only this had been revealed in the books! Why, I’m wondering, did Rowling wait until now to reveal this? And will the crazies renew their attempts to […]

More evidence — as if we needed any after this weekend’s Values Voters Summit — that Fred Thompson‘s star is fading as the “true conservative” candidate. After previously dodging such questions, Thompson told a local reporter in Tampa today that he is opposed to the federal or state governments interfering in end of life issues, […]

Graham E. Fuller lists all the other reasons Ankara is peeved at Washington, from increasing independence among Kurds in Iraq to disappointment over the rising tensions with Iran, which it believes needs to be less isolated, not more. Good reading to keep the controversy over the genocide resolution in perspective. —Dana Goldstein

Or at least that’s the Washington/Virginia coffee shop I’m guessing Michael Gerson reacts so schizophrenically to in his Post column this morning. The author of “compassionate conservatism” is at turns horrified and bemused by the atmosphere at Busboys, whose name alludes to D.C. poet Langston Hughes, who was discovered as a writer while working as […]