Megan McArdle asks, "Are Guns at Protests Really Dangerous?" in order to argue that they aren't: I think carrying guns to protests is entirely counterproductive.  Indeed, I'm not sold on the general virtues of pr...

President Obama has taken a cautious tone toward the demonstrators in Iran, with his stated reason being that more open support would discredit their cause. This strikes me as a sensible position. The revealed preferences of both sides suggest a mutu...

Narrative Dissonance: What Obama's Cairo Speech Got Wrong, by Martin Peretz If You Thought Raising Money For Your Failing State Was Hard, Meet Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, by...

Sam Stein of the Huffington Post and Al Sharpton are up in arms about an editorial cartoon in today's New York Post. The cartoon, playing off a news story about a rabid chimpanzee who was shot by...

Reading over President Bush's farewell address, I was reminded of an old rule of salesmanship. When you're trying to make a tough sell with a skeptical customer, try to at least get them nodding...

Why Americans Hate to Love the Government, by John B. Judis How Drug Companies Plan to Make a Killing Off of Health Care Reform, by Jonathan Cohn The ‘Should We Stay or Should We Go’ Matrix: Where Our Top Opinion-Makers Stand on the Afghanistan...

There seems to be an undercurrent of surprise that Howard Wolfson is now advising Ned Lamont in his Connecticut gubernatorial campaign, but it's worth remembering that this isn't the first time these two have teamed up. Come back with me to the crazy...

A number of people have noted the off-script hilarity of Michael Steele's response on Roland Martin's show when the host suggested that white Republicans are "afraid of black folks": You're absolutely right. I mean, I've been in the room and they've...

To the frustration of many a cabinet secretary, the Obama administration is a little behind on its appointments. At this point—with only five weeks to go before the Senate breaks for recess—a little over half of the 514 positions that need filling have...

PPP has a striking new poll out regarding Olympia Snowe's popularity with Maine voters: 46% of Republicans now disapprove of Snowe’s job performance with only 40% approving. Her overall approval remains at a relatively solid 51/36 spread thanks to...