Jamelle Bouie

I made this point on this week’s soon-to-be published podcast, and I had planned to write a longer post about it, but Sally Quinn beat me to it with a post called “Why Anita Hill Deserves an Apology”: Women like Anita Hill who try to tell the truth about being sexually harassed all too often […]

It goes without saying that if Republicans win big in November, Democrats will fight among themselves for the right to shape their part of the election’s narrative. Of course, this is all a little silly; 90 percent of November’s results will have already been decided by the economy and other external conditions. Slapping a story […]

A man named Rutherford B. Hayes wants to run for president in 2012: Hayes offers little information about himself, writing that he is from Arkansas, has a G.E.D., and is interested in “restoring” the Constitution and Bill of Rights, which he says “came under assault.” He says he has work experience in “the manufacturing industry” […]

Charlie Cook makes a good point: The one sobering thought that veteran Republican consultants are already contemplating is that the larger the wave this year, the more difficult it will be to hold onto some of these seats in 2012 and 2014 in the House and 2016 in the Senate. The bigger the wave, the […]

And The New York Times moves a little closer to accepting that Republicans don’t actually care about the deficit: If there is a single message unifying Republican candidates this year, it is a call to grab hold of the federal checkbook, slam it closed and begin to slash spending. To bolster their case that action […]

Michael Gerson is outraged by President Obama‘s claim that the Democratic Party believes in “facts, and science, and argument:” Obama clearly believes that his brand of politics represents “facts and science and argument.” His opponents, in disturbing contrast, are using the more fearful, primitive portion of their brains. Obama views himself as the neocortical leader […]

In a welcome bit of state-based good news, lawmakers and authorities in New Jersey and Massachusetts are mulling new laws that would increase the rights and protection of domestic-violence victims, and provide law-enforcement officers with new, pro-victim guidelines for bringing domestic-violence perpetrators to justice. Here is New Jersey: One measure in the three-bill package would […]

To piggyback off of Scott‘s post, this is a really poor effort by David Brooks: In the end, however, money is a talisman. It makes people feel good because they think it has magical properties. It probably helps in local legislative races where name recognition is low. It probably helps challengers get established. But these […]

This Sharron Angle gaffe reminds me of the brilliant “Diversity Day” episode of The Office: “So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation, and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that,” she told Rancho […]