- October 7, 2016A colleague's question prompts us to look back into the history of why the debates are the way they are.
- September 26, 2016Presidential debates are never about substance — and Trump the showman has the edge.
- August 29, 2016In which I do not speak of lies, falsehoods, ignorance, bigotry or incitement to violence.
- August 24, 2016One of Bill Clinton's signature achievements has a troubling legacy.
- July 28, 2016With his last convention speech, the president forced pundits to acknowledge that Democrats are taking back an optimistic worldview.
- July 20, 2016America surely has problems, but the Republican Right tends to ignore its role in causing them and now — under President Obama — exaggerates how bad the situation is.
- May 6, 2016The numbers don't lie. The notion that angry blue collar voters could sway the election just may not be true.
- March 11, 2016The shocking story isn't the rise of Donald Trump but how the GOP slowly morphed into a party of hate and obstruction.
- February 29, 2016The spirited debate about the merits of Bernie Sanders's economic plan reminds two prominent economists of one that they were on opposite sides of 35 years ago.
- February 5, 2016Round one goes not to the candidates but the media, which reasserted its dominance over the political process — for now.