Lost in all the political spin around the elections this week is the issue of, once again, abominable turnout. The conventional wisdom is that this is always the case for an “off year” election, as though that were in itself...

Conservatives love to blame Obama’s policies for everything, including our current economic problems and the difficulties of passing health care reform. But the public doesn’t see things that way. For example, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal...

For the past twenty-five years, Harry Evans (formally, but rarely, known as Sir Harold Evans) has been based in New York in a succession of high-profile media roles, including publisher of the Random House Trade Division, founding editor of Condé...

These days, many progressives are expressing deep disappointment with the health reform legislation now moving through Congress. Some suggest that legislators made deals with lobbyists and let them write the bills. Others complain that both the...

It is not just Washington that is re-appraising policy in Afghanistan. A combination of an increasingly aggressive insurgency and a crisis of legitimacy in the Afghan government have raised new questions about the future of NATO’s mission and...